Díaz file to Add the economic manager of Podemos, Secretary of State with Belarra

Yolanda Díaz files for the Add campaign to the highest economic manager of Podemos, Nacho Álvarez, brain and face of the great proposals of the party in this matter. He has also been the party's main technical negotiator in the talks on the three general budgets approved in the legislature, and a purple leader with a seat in the executive and in the State Citizen Council, the highest management body. In fact, Álvarez was present, in the center of the image, during the televised speeches by Ione Belarra and Irene Montero this Saturday, when the purples assumed a “modest” role in the face of the general elections of 23-J, they staged their acceptance of the exclusion of Montero in lists and entrusted the future of their “main political asset” to the results of the elections.

Díaz's party has made the signing public this Monday, through a message on the social network Twitter. “He will be the spokesman for Sumar in economic matters and will direct the proposals in terms of social, economic and welfare state policies,” reads the message.. In a subsequent press conference, Díaz has boasted that they are “nurturing the Sumar team with top-level professionals”, and has assured that Álvarez will be the main representative of Sumar on these issues. “He will not only be the spokesman for Sumar, but the person who pays for the debates on this matter,” he said.. A posteriori, Sumar has specified that his work will be limited to the campaign. From his environment they specify that he will continue to be a member of Podemos and its Executive.

@nachoalvarez_ joins the Sumar team!

He will be Sumar's spokesman in economic matters and will lead the proposals in terms of social, economic and welfare state policies.

We need an economy designed by and for the people.

— Add (@add) June 19, 2023

It will not go on the lists, and the vice-president's team has ensured that the main reference for her formation in the future parliamentary group will be Carlos Martín, number six in the candidacy for Madrid. For months, when the discrepancies of Podemos with Díaz began to reach a level of decibels hitherto unexplored, in his organization, but also among the forces related to the Díaz platform, there had been speculation about the possible leap from Álvarez to Sumar. In substance and form, his speech is more similar to that of Díaz than to that of the members of the leadership of Belarra.

Before Vistalegre II, the Congress that consolidated the split of the party into two parts, between those related to the theses of Pablo Iglesias and those of Íñigo Errejón, Álvarez and Carolina Bescansa opted for a kind of third way that promoted misgivings among the leadership. After the congress, the purples once again counted on him as the first sword in economic matters, and Iglesias appointed him Secretary of State as soon as he arrived at the ministry, in January 2020..

The Secretary of State, whose capacity for work is more than recognized among purples, is a doctor in International Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, a professor in the Department of Economic Structure at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a researcher at the Complutense Institute of International Studies.. He is also, since 2002, a career civil servant of the body of Secondary Education teachers of the Community of Madrid for the specialty of Economics, today on leave.

Their contributions have been key to developing proposals that range from the borderline universal basic income to the minimum vital income, currently in force, but dependent on the Ministry of Social Security.. It has always been the wild card of Podemos for negotiations —since Iglesias left, side by side with Díaz's team—, regarding tax issues, but also about pensions. He has been the strong man of the purples in this matter almost since the birth of the party.