The conflict in Ukraine forces Yolanda Díaz to postpone her tour to form a political platform

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, this Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies. Eduardo Parra (Europa Press)

Yolanda Díaz postpones for now the beginning of the "listening process" to form a platform that will concur in the next general elections.

The second vice president and leader of United We Can in the Government had announced that between April and May she would kick off a tour of much of the national territory to meet and "talk" with different groups as the first step in defining a future political project, but the conflict in Ukraine and the rise in energy prices resulting from the escalation of the war have put his plans on hold.

Sources close to Díaz confirm that this start will not be "so imminent" because the "priority" of the vice president right now is to solve from the Government the economic and social consequences of the war.

The coalition Executive has spent two weeks focused on drawing up the response plan to the effects of the conflict, which it will approve next Tuesday in the Council of Ministers.

Citizen discontent can be seen in the street, where the demonstrations of farmers, ranchers and against energy prices, in addition to the strike of carriers, put the Government on the ropes, urging them to respond as quickly and effectively as possible. to a crisis that threatens the economy of families.

The head of Labor has shown these days her "concern" about the calls.

“All solidarity for those sectors,” Díaz empathized in statements this Wednesday upon his arrival at Congress.

"They're having a hard time," she added.

United We Can is clear that in this complicated context and with the extreme right of Vox on the rise and the PP in recomposition, the coalition is risking its future.

Faced with such a panorama, it seems difficult to justify the immediate start-up of a process that, in an electoral key, has the objective of forming a "country project for the next decade", as she herself has explained at different times since last summer she announced by your intentions for the first time.

Although months have passed, practically nothing is known for now about his plans —nor about the role that Podemos and Izquierda Unida will have in them—, beyond the fact that Galician politics wants to limit the role of the parties —to those who believe they are far from the people's problems—at least in this first phase of the process.

In an interview granted to TVE a month ago, Díaz once again emphasized the "citizen nature" of his platform.

“I have reflected a lot and in the spring I launch myself into this listening project.

I am going to travel my country from north to south and from east to west”, she pointed out effusively on that occasion, to “weave a country project that is different, democratic, feminist”, that puts climate policy and young people in the center.

After some statements she had made on television in February immediately after the minimum approval of the labor reform, the flagship project of her ministry, the vice president feared that she had given the impression of not being sure of the implementation of the process that she herself had announced, so on the public channel it sought to clear up any doubts and be more specific about its launch, that,

In the absence of confirming places and dates, so far it has transpired that on this tour, which can last up to six months, the vice president will hold meetings with professional associations and associations to address specific issues, but also meetings with ordinary citizens in formats closer to a assembly, and even recreational events.

The idea is that with this approach Diaz can leave the labor framework in which her action is circumscribed within the Executive and thus expand her profile.

In any case, the vice president, who is the best valued political leader according to the CIS, has not yet made public whether or not she will be the head of the list in the next general elections, which adds greater uncertainty to the process.

"When those six months pass, I will reflect again," she said on TVE, "maybe I'm just a channel."

For now,

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