Yolanda Díaz does not appear 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 in her place. The two form a ticket in practice in these elections and anticipate the role that the two 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 in Catalonia for up to four days asking for the vote. Three of them sharing the stage with Colau.

This first Saturday of the campaign is one, then the central act of the commons will come 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 it, the most dedicated version of Díaz. The leader of Sumar has gone out of her way in the main square of Nou Barris in front of a thousand people to ask for four more years for Colau. The very song with which they have jumped into the act already asked for it to dance rhythm: One more time, by the group Daft Punk. “I ask you to dream together and that Barcelona continue in the hands of our mayoress and that the right does not govern here,” he started.

One of the messages that 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 is not going to win,” he remarked. “The right is called what it's called. His name is [Xavier] Trias or whatever his name is,” he said, citing the Junts candidate.

Accustomed to a different type of clothing, Díaz has put on a T-shirt today in protest of the commons in which there is a motto that ironizes with the fact that the mayoress has replaced Yoko Ono as the person responsible for all evils. “Ada Colau is to blame for everything,” he says.

With it on, he has called to “concentrate the vote” of “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. Díaz has stated that there are two models at stake. That of the candidate of Barcelona en Comú for the 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” with “corruptions” and “pharaonic works” .

The leader of Sumar has fought like 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” .

Colau distrusts the PSC

For his part, Colau has been full of praise for Díaz for being the “best Minister of Labor in the history of democracy” and has thanked him for his involvement. In her message, the mayor has warned of her “concern” about the possibility that the PSC considers an agreement with Junts to take over the mayoralty of the city. He has accused Jaume Collboni of opening “a door to agree with Junts” and of acting with a speech “more similar” to that of Trias every day.

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