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  • Elections 28-M Yolanda Díaz warns that Alberto Núñez Feijóo "will deliver the votes of the PP to the PSC or Junts to remove Ada Colau" in Barcelona

Yolanda Díaz has made full with three visits to Barcelona in the three weeks in which there have been days of electoral campaign. The second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar gives superlative importance to the re-election of Ada Colau as mayor of the Catalan capital, which according to most polls will compete for first place next Sunday with the socialist Jaume Collboni and former mayor Xavier Trias (Junts per Catalunya ). The Barcelona city council is the most important municipal corporation of those governed by the left that emerged from the 15-M protests, until now institutionally represented by Podemos and its confluences.

For the also Minister of Labor and Social Economy, the results of this 28-M and that Colau can maintain the rod of command are key for Sumar (with or without Podemos) to become the new benchmark of this political space. And Catalonia will be one of the bulwarks to sustain this company. In this autonomous community, the candidacy of En Comú Podem headed in December 2015 by the historian and activist Xavier Domènech achieved almost 25% of support touching the million votes (927,940). A result that was basic for the best records that Podemos has achieved to date in Congress, with the ceiling of 71 deputies achieved in that appointment with the polls. The objective, now, is to recover the mood that made it possible for the purples to be the first force in Catalonia in those elections and in the repetition of June 2016, with a similar percentage of votes.

The closing ceremony of the campaign of Barcelona en Comú has been developed in a favorable location for the discourse of the "new labor" promoted by Díaz: the Sant Martí park, nestled between the streets of Labor and Agriculture of the district of Sant Martí, a fiefdom of traditional left-wing vote that in the last two municipal contests has opted for BComú . In line with all this, Díaz has proclaimed that the efforts to get out of the economic crisis should not fall again on the working class, but on "the companies that have enormous margins." "The big companies that are lining up have to tighten their belts," he said of the profits of these corporations.

Pension

The leader of Sumar, who has taken heart from the labor reform that she led from the Government or the successive increases in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage, has also had words for pensioners, whom she has urged to continue mobilizing "to maintain the best social protection system." "A worker cannot climb a scaffold at 65, 66 or 67. And neither can continue working, from 65, a domestic worker or a welder, "he claimed in front of those who bet on extending the maximum working age.

Díaz, who last week warned that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "will deliver the votes of his party to the PSC or Junts per Catalunya to remove Colau from the Mayor's Office, has focused his attention this afternoon on Collboni, virtual favorite according to the polls to win this Sunday: "Are you willing to agree with Trias, whose party (at that time, CiU) contributed a few years ago to harden the labor reform of the PP government? Are you willing to hand over the city to entrepreneurs at any price?"

In the same line, Colau herself has pointed out that, inevitably, after 28-M pacts will have to be made because "the times of the majorities are over". And, as on previous occasions, the mayor has not hidden her letters and has mentioned unambiguously who would be her natural allies: the PSC, with whom she has shared Government throughout this mandate and part of the previous one, and Esquerra Republicana, which has served as a partner of municipal stability from outside the Executive. The only other possible pact, said the candidate for re-election, is "that of retrogression", that is, the sociovergencia that, according to the commons, Collboni and Trias want to apply in the Barcelona City Council.

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