Yolanda Díaz is not running in the 28-M elections. Or almost yes. Because the Vice-President of the Government has assumed on a personal and political level the objective of achieving the re-election of Ada Colau as mayor of Barcelona as if she were the one who was in her place. The two form in practice a ticket in these elections and anticipate the role that both will later have in the general elections. Two that are one. They are the new tandem that will lead the reconfiguration of the alternative left to the PSOE.

That is why the municipal elections in Barcelona are a priority to win for Díaz. Hence, the leader of Sumar will be up to four days in Catalonia asking for the vote. Three of them sharing the stage with Colau.

This first Saturday of the campaign is one, then will come the central act of the commons next week and, finally, on the 26th to give the last push to her friend in the act with which they will close. Barcelona has seen this Saturday, and will continue to see, the most dedicated version of Diaz. The leader of Sumar has gone out of her way in the main square of Nou Barris before a thousand people to ask for four more years for Colau. Already the song with which they have jumped to the act asked for it to the rhythm of dance: One more time, by the group Daft Punk. "I ask you to dream together and that Barcelona remains in the hands of our mayor and that the right does not govern here," he started.

One of the messages he wanted to underline in Barcelona is to place Catalonia as the key to defeating the Popular Party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In these elections, first, and in the general elections, later. "I trust her [Catalonia] to take a step forward and tell all of Spain that the right will not win," he said. "The right whatever it is called. His name is [Xavier] Trias or whatever his name is," he said, quoting the Junts candidate.

Accustomed to another type of clothing, Diaz has put on today a t-shirt vindicating the commons in which there is a slogan that ironizes that the mayor has replaced Yoko Ono as responsible for all evils. "Ada Colau is to blame for everything," he says. With it on, he has called to "concentrate the vote" of the "progressive people", "mothers and grandmothers" and even residents of "Galician" origin in Colau. "Barcelona has to be born many times and for that we need Ada Colau to continue being mayor," he said. Diaz has stated that there are two models at play. That of the candidate of Barcelona en Comú of transformation of the city and the care of its citizens and neighborhoods with better services and a sustainability model, and that of a right that wants to go back "back" with the "corruptions" and "pharaonic works".

The leader of Sumar has been fajado as a battering ram against Trias and has reproached him for being "on Mars", "out of reality" of the people of Barcelona for not knowing how they live and, ultimately, because "he is not prepared to govern". For his part, Colau has been full of praise for Díaz for being the "best Minister of Labor in the history of democracy" and thanked her for her involvement. In her message, the mayor has warned of her "concern" about the possibility that the PSC raises a pact with Junts to take over the Mayor's Office of the city. He has accused Jaume Collboni of opening "a door to agree with Junts" and of acting with a speech every day "more similar" to that of Trias.

In contrast, she stressed that she will defend the coalition government of the left "so that progressive forces do not look to their right." That premise is also transferred to national politics. "We claim the progressive coalition governments in Barcelona and in the State," he said.

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