Belarra claims the laws of Montero as the "yes is yes" in an act with Yolanda Díaz in Pamplona

Díaz calls for feminist mobilization to prevent the right from following the model of Abascal, who seeks a "war of the sexes"

The Secretary General of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has claimed in an act together with the candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, the advances represented by the "feminist" laws promoted by the Ministry of Equality, which directs Irene Montero.

He has also defended that only the vote for Sumar guarantees a progressive government against the PSOE and nationalist forces such as ERC or Bildu, although he thanks them for their support during the legislature.

This has been indicated during an act of the electoral campaign in Pamplona together with the head of the list for this constituency, Idoia Villanueva, and Díaz herself, which represents the first joint meeting of both after the clash over the departure of Montero from the lists electoral.

During the beginning of his speech, he highlighted that his political space, first with Podemos and Unidas Podemos and now with Sumar, have achieved things that seemed impossible, such as the coalition government with the PSOE, raising the minimum interprofessional wage "like never before" and also the "feminist laws".

Among them, he has cited the reform of the abortion regulations, the Trans and LGTBi rights law and the 'only yes is yes' law, all of them with the role of the Ministry of Equality, since they imply progress in the "new generation of feminist rights".

Belarra has also highlighted that they are competing in these elections with both the PSOE and nationalist forces, citing ERC, Bildu and Geroa Bai.

After praising that they have helped the Executive to deploy measures such as the revaluation of pensions, he has stressed that the useful vote is for Sumar because it is the only option for a progressive Executive and without it these parties will have no influence in Madrid.

For his part, Díaz has stressed that the decisive force in these elections is in women and demands that they go out and vote for Sumar so that the right "does not take the country" to the past, remarking that they already managed to defeat the PP when former minister Alberto Ruiz Gallardón promoted a reform to go back on the right to abortion.

In this sense, he has insisted that he knows the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, well, who tries to make believe that he will win the elections when it is not true, because if there is mobilization on the left they will win in these elections.

Therefore, he has asked to support Sumar within the progressive bloc to prevent the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, from being vice president of a future conservative government.

Then, he has explained that this campaign "is not about fuss" or "noise" but about proposals, which is the keynote of Feijóo and the extreme right. And again he has launched that in feminism or dependency the PP will not go to the model of Belarra (in reference to Podemos) but that of Abascal.

And it is that the second vice president has highlighted that feminism is an emancipatory movement that achieves rights, to criticize that the extreme right seeks to provoke a "war of the sexes".

Belarra and Díaz have shared for the first time in this electoral campaign after Montero's departure from the lists and the last act of both dates back to the campaign of the last regional elections in Andalusia.

The two of them, along with the head of the list for Navarra Idoia Villanueva (Podemos), have previously walked their rally through the streets of Pamplona, ​​where they have been able to chat with some supporters.

The Minister of Social Rights, who did not mention Díaz in her speech but rather Sumar, hugged the second vice president at the end of the meeting.

The negotiations between Sumar and Podemos to form part of the unitary candidacy to the left of the PSOE, which brings together fifteen progressive forces, were tense and had as one of the main points of friction the situation of Montero and the weight of the party in The lists.

Some tensions that had been going on for months and were reflected when the party Executive was absent from the official launch of Díaz as a candidate for the Presidency of the Government, when her requirement of holding open primaries to prepare the candidacy was not satisfied.

However, after the electoral advance, the state leadership of Podemos guaranteed its presence in Sumar and assumed its secondary role in the new confluence of parties after being the hegemonic force of the Unidas Podemos brand, but it also criticized the "veto" at the same time. to the head of Equality, which Belarra herself came to describe as a "political error" in the last Citizen Council.

For his part, Díaz has denied that Montero's removal from the lists was a veto and the candidacy chose to talk about resignations in the framework of multilateral negotiations between all the parties.

The vice president recently stated that the formations that make up the coalition, including Podemos, signed the agreement to go to the elections together and emphasized that no one signs an agreement if they are not satisfied. However, in a letter to the militancy, the leader of Podemos reported that they stamped her signature in the coalition registry, although without a political agreement at that time.

However, the situation calmed down with the start of the campaign, where Díaz has shared acts with candidates belonging to Podemos in Álava and Guipúzcoa, in addition to this Sunday together with the state co-spokesperson of the purple party, Isa Serra. In addition, they will participate again together with Belarra in the closing ceremony of the campaign.

For his part, Belarra in the first part of the electoral campaign has had a discreet role, with events in Murcia and Las Palmas to support the heads of the list in both constituencies.