Díaz launches her candidacy to be "the first president of Spain" and rejects "guardianship": "I belong to nobody"

She takes the step surrounded by leftist leaders such as Errejón, Colau, Garzón and Mónica García, whom she praises, and the absence of Podemos

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has officially announced this Sunday that she will present herself as a candidate for the Presidency of the Government in the next elections and has guaranteed that she will be "up to the challenge" of responding to the "thirst for change", with a project in which "everyone fits".

"I am going to take a step forward. I want to be the first president of my country, the first president of Spain," she proclaimed this Sunday in Madrid to ensure that she feels ""useful" to be able to" win the country, making clear her rejection to politics based on "noise" and claimed that Sumar is a "feminist" force that promotes equality, since women "belong to no one" and are "tired" of "guardianship" or being "nobody's".

"Women don't belong to anyone. I don't belong to anyone either," she stressed in a climate of tension with Podemos, which has kept its pulse and has not attended its coming-out, by not signing a prior agreement before. In his harangues, Díaz has affirmed that it is time for women to be the "protagonists" of history and that they will be "unstoppable".

And all this flanked by leaders of more than a dozen left-wing formations, with the notable presence of the mayoress of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, the IU coordinator, Alberto Garzón, the leaders of Más Madrid, Mónica García and Rita Maestre; his counterpart in Más País, Íñigo Errejón; the general secretary of the PCE, Enrique Santiago; and the mayor of Valencia, Joan Baldoví (Compromís), among others, to whom he has praised his political career without mentioning Podemos.

For example, the head of Consumption has praised his "generosity" and "knowing where to be", Errejón his "political intelligence", Colau and Ribó his management to transform their cities and Mónica García for "defending the dignity" of public health. Some messages that also arrive just two months after the 28M elections are held, where for example Podemos, together with IU, competes electorally with Más Madrid and Compromís.

In addition, he has also had words of thanks to the positions of Green Alliance, Equo, Aragonese Chunta, Drago project, Batzarre or Movement for the Dignity and Citizenship of Ceuta (MDyC), which unite more than a dozen formations.

A position that takes on with the absence of Podemos, led by Ione Belarra, who has not attended her coming-out since she did not see the previous condition of signing a bilateral confluence agreement with Sumar based on open primaries fulfilled in order to cover her.

Despite this, several party officials have distanced themselves from the formation guideline: the regional leaders of Galicia (Borja San Ramón) and Navarra (Begoña Alfaro), as well as various national and regional deputies such as Antón Gómez-Reino, Txema Guijarro , Nacho Escartín and Daniel Ripa, among others.

"POLITICS WITH A CAPITAL LETTER"

After more than two years since former Vice President Pablo Iglesias nominated her as a future candidate for the Presidency of the Government and after nine months since she announced the "listening process" with civil society in July last year, Díaz confirms her step forward to assuming the leadership of the left after celebrating more than 25 events of its Sumar platform, visiting the 17 autonomous communities and bringing together close to 30,000 people between all its events, including today's.

At the Antonio Magariños sports center, with a capacity of approximately 3,000 people that has been overwhelmed, with more than 2,000 people who have not been able to access the venue and have followed his intervention through an external screen; Díaz has been greeted with the cry of 'President!' and she has proclaimed that "everything starts today".

He has also emphasized that Sumar has shown that "politics with capital letters" does not lie in "noise", in "dividing", in "polarization" and "hardness with the political adversary", but in "dialogue", "agree " and "uniting wills".

As an example, he has praised measures that this legislature has promoted, such as the increase in the minimum wage, that is, the "useful" policy for the people in the face of "politicking" that, in his opinion, is deployed by the PP and Vox who voted against his labor reform and deploy the "policies of pain", based on "austerity" and neoliberalism, which is ideologically defeated but now it is time to do it "politically".

Immediately afterwards, he has charged against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who represents the party of the "no", of the "cuts" and of those who vote against the labor reform, the pension reform and the abortion reform .

Meanwhile, he has claimed that politics is "commitment", "delivery" and "generosity", as he has expressed in the listening process of these months, which has resulted in a "collective decision".

"WE ARE GOING TO GIVE ANSWERS TO THE COUNTRY"

Therefore, he has ruled that Sumar has come to "win the country" under these premises, to "widen democracy" based on a "citizen movement" and for this he has outlined the programmatic central lines of his project, which he defines as a new "democratic contract" for the next decade.

"We are going to give answers to our country that is thirsty for change", he emphasized, citing, for example, his commitment to promote business reform, bring oral health to the public or protect the "jewel in the crown", which is Primary Care.

Also reforms to "democratize" the energy market, propose that there be a maximum rent, reduce and make the working day more flexible or promote an "authentic revolution" in the care system, among other initiatives.

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