Díaz warns that Feijóo will cause a recession if he arrives at Moncloa with the "failed" austerity policies

He also criticizes the PSOE and Sumar's candidates in Euskadi appeal to the nationalist vote: Bildu and PNV will not influence if the right governs

   VITORIA, 15 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has warned that the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will cause a "recession" in the country if he manages to govern because his plan is based on "cuts", "failed" policies that generate more unemployment and in defending the interests of the electric companies and the big banks.

Along these lines, he has emphasized that in his electoral campaign he is surrounding himself with "companies" such as former presidents José María Aznar, the defender of austerity", and Mariano Rajoy, who was "kicked out" of Moncloa "for corruption", in reference to the motion of censure promoted in 2018 after the ruling in the Gürtel case.

Díaz has also criticized the PSOE, as he displayed especially at the beginning of the campaign, due to the resistance within the coalition Executive to raise the minimum wage, cap the price of electricity or his refusal to combat the electrical "oligopoly".

This was stated during a rally in Vitoria together with the heads of the Sumar lists in Euskadi Lander Martínez (Vizcaya), Pilar Garrido (Guipúzcoa) and Guillermo Presa (Álava), the last two leaders also of Podemos. All of them have demanded the vote for Díaz's candidacy, remarking that supporting nationalist formations such as Bildu is not useful if the current Executive is not reissued.

During his speech, Díaz once again claimed that Sumar wants to win a "better country", more diverse under the premise of promoting co-official leagues. That is, so that "not everything goes through Madrid" and raise a "plurinationality" that the right-wing is afraid of. "I want a country of countries", he has riveted himself.

On the other hand, he has insisted that progressive mobilization is the key in these elections, since it is "in his power" to win over the right-wing PP and Vox because "it is not true" his story that they are ahead in these elections.

Then, Díaz has presumed that during his administration in the Government "incredible things" have been done, such as the ERTE mechanism in a pandemic or raising the minimum wage to 47%, despite the "repeated chant" by the right that it was was going to sink the economy and that "people" even from the left "bought that story".

On the other hand, she has remarked that she "knows well" the leader of the PP and that "she is not afraid of him", but that the one who fears her is Feijóo himself, who refuses to attend the debate between the four main candidates for the elections organized by RTVE on the 19th.

He has also continued his reproaches to the president of the PP by ironizing that yesterday he displayed a large canvas in Madrid promising to provide solutions to the public, but has accused him of "constantly lying" for promising to lower income taxes of up to 40,000 euros when he only defends the interests of the energy companies, who ask for the vote, for the PP, and of the big banks.

And it is that he has reported that in his program comes "black on white" that will abolish the tax on large fortunes of more than 3 million euros, allowing the "tax avoidance" to continue in Spain against Sumar, who advocates a progressive tax reform and he understands that the concentration of large banks and energy companies is a "danger" for the country, which has enormous benefits at the expense of the people.

On the other hand, he has explained that, as Aznar said, the PP enacts the return of the "times" of austerity, which are those of "cuts", high unemployment rates and economic recipes that almost led the United Kingdom to "bankruptcy". .

"If Feijóo governs, he will cause a recession in our country," Díaz denounced to also censure that the "bipartisanship" has applied the "worst policy" in terms of reindustrialization, the fight against climate change and also with the previous labor reforms that They were all going in the same direction: harming the rights of employees.

The PSOE has been criticized for showing objections to limiting the price of electricity with the cap on gas, alleging that it was unconstitutional and that the EU did not allow it, when it was the solution and has caused Spain to now have the lowest inflation in Europe .

Meanwhile, Pilar Garrido has warned that in these elections there are only two options, a progressive government with Yolanda Díaz or the "barbarism" of a coalition between the PP and Vox, the "extreme right" coalition with Feijóo and Abascal who want return the country to "dark times".

What's more, the also leader of Podemos Euskadi has stressed that PNV and Bildu "compete" in their logic of who has the most influence in Madrid in their "particular crusade" to lead nationalism in the Basque country, but has stressed that these elections are of whether the progressive bloc governs against the right.

A line that has also been remarked by the number one of Sumar for Vizcaya, Lander Martínez, to criticize that the nationalist forces voted against the labor reform and to launch that the votes of PNV and Bildu "will be useless" if there is no executive with Diaz. "What use will they be if there is no door (in Madrid) to knock on, if Díaz is not in the Government?" He has questioned.

The head of the list for Álava has affirmed that the call by the coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, to concentrate the vote in the abertzale formation is an "error" because "it has already reached its ceiling" and will not get two seats for the constituency and that all the suffrage that exceeds one deputy for this formation will fall on "deaf ears".

After indicating that the vote for Sumar is decisive to snatch deputies from the extreme right in small and medium-sized constituencies with the aim of reissuing the progressive government, to counter that this legislature has shown its seal in the great measures of the Executive while the PSOE " drag your feet" before the neoliberal policies of the PNV in Euskadi.