Yolanda Díaz punctures Sánchez's economic euphoria: "People are having a hard time"

Yolanda Díaz punctures Pedro Sánchez's euphoria about the economic situation in Spain with a resounding warning: “People are having a hard time”. Because, the Sumar leader explained, she is having problems paying the mortgage or rent and filling the shopping basket. “There is social unrest.”

This was stated in a pre-campaign act held at the Espacio Rastro in Madrid, in front of several hundred people, in which he refuted the speech that the President of the Government is holding on to request his re-election and for which he is promoting the Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, as her tandem. “I do not share the optimistic view of big data. At Sumar we know that it is not enough. People are having a hard time”, he warned, after noting the problems that citizens are encountering at home, inflation being the main problem.

“It is not true that we approach people saying that we are the economic engine of Europe because people are having a hard time,” Díaz explained, who went on to speak of the specific case of variable-rate mortgages, which are being faced to an average increase of 300 euros due to the increase in interest, preventing thousands of people from being able to “live with dignity”.

Faced with this situation, Díaz has aired that in Sumar they have “a plan”, since “the answer that has been given does not work”, alluding to the revision of the conditions through the ethical code of financial entities, which has only helped “10,000 people” of the “four million” who have variable-rate mortgages. For this reason, it has announced that in the coming days it will present what will be one of its star proposals for these people: “an emergency bonus to help people who cannot live with dignity today”. He has not detailed amount or anything else.

Sumar seizes the material conditions of people's lives as campaign axes: mortgage, rent and the shopping cart, on the one hand, and the causes of inequality, on the other. To this we must add the emphasis on working conditions such as the increase in salary, working hours to reconcile personal life and the reduction of the 40-hour working day. “If the question of these elections is about your life, the answer is Sumar”, has sentenced.

One day after the verification that Podemos dropped Irene Montero to ratify his alliance with Sumar, Díaz has left the following message: “The elections of July 23 are not about the future of any politician. They are about making your life better”. In this sense, he has called for social mobilization to achieve it.

In contrast to his project, he places the PP, whom he has criticized for making proposals to lower taxes that are “unreal”, “unscientific”, “not very rigorous” and that “would break Spain”. “It is a failed proposal, which does not fall in our country or in any conservative party in the world and which is radically hypocritical”, he has sentenced.

For the rest, the act has served Díaz to present the new faces that make up the Sumar project and that displace the leaders of Podemos in the coalition. There has been, for example, the number two on the list for Madrid, Agustín Santos Maraver, who until now was the Spanish ambassador to the UN.

Among the speakers was the new economic guru of Sumar, Carlos Martín, who comes from CCOO and will occupy the sixth position on the Madrid list. Likewise, and that everything indicates that she will have a key role in the coalition, Verónica Martínez, number one for Pontevedra, has been. Complete the poker of new faces Violeta Serrano, headliner for León.

All of them have talked about the project and their concerns, and have made it clear that one of Sumar's top priorities is tackling the climate emergency and social inequalities.