The eve of Sant Jordi, the festival par excellence of the rose and the book, has left many postcards this Friday with all the preparations to get Barcelona ready.
And also evidence: the day has such a pull that it is capable of convening at the same time and less than two kilometers away Pablo Iglesias, former leader of Podemos and former vice president of the Government, and Yolanda Díaz, vice president and Minister of Labor, in two separate editorial events.
After a week full of clashes, Iglesias has had a conciliatory tone and has affirmed that the left cannot make the “mistakes of the past”: “We all have to be a pineapple: she can be the president.
Her leadership is better than Anguita's and mine.
And she can take us very far.”
In an act at the Altaïr bookstore, packed with readers and shouting “Yes, we can”, Iglesias presented his book
Truths to the face in Barcelona.
Memories of the Wild Years
, by Aitor Riveiro, edited by Navona and whose editor, Ernest Folch, has announced that they are going to commission a second edition of the essay.
Subjected to questions from Riveiro himself and the journalist Jordi Basté, Iglesias has maintained that the "biggest mistake" that the left can make is "fighting with each other."
“You have to have enough maturity”, he has affirmed, pointing out that differences must be played down and warning that one should not fall into the dynamic of “good guys and bad guys”.
The Minister of Labor affirms in Barcelona that the time has come for there to be a President of the Government "whoever she is"
With this reflection, Iglesias has seemed to try to appease a convulsive week on the left unleashed when Pedro Sánchez affirmed this Monday that he would like to govern in the future mandate with "Yolanda Díaz's space" ignoring United We Can.
That message triggered the tension between the two politicians, who after maintaining a close friendship now have little relationship.
On Tuesday, at the presentation of his book in Madrid, Iglesias claimed the role of Podemos in the construction of Díaz's leadership;
on Wednesday she recalled that leadership is chosen by the people and she recalled that the alternative left emerged earlier in Galicia than in Madrid.
The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, already made peace on Thursday demanding a strong Podemos so that she could be a candidate.
Supported by the senior staff of the commons and Podem —the deputies Jéssica Albiach, Joan Mena, Jaume Asens and Aina Vidal were in the front row—, Iglesias has been unraveling and showing his concern about the democratic degradation and “impunity” with the acted by those who question institutions and power.
"I don't keep quiet anymore," he said as soon as the act began to criticize Margarita Robles, Defense Minister, for ironically urging Minister Ione Belarra to travel to Russia and convince Putin to stop the invasion of Ukraine .
“A conference was held this morning between different political forces in the face of the possibility of a Third World War.
And I have listened to Robles.
Well, convince your subordinates to stop spying without judicial authorization.
And if they are not doing it, then explain it yourself and purge the State apparatus of elements contrary to law and democracy.
And if you are not capable of doing it, go home or go to the PP, which will welcome you with open arms”, he stated.
With a full agenda in Sant Jordi, the publishers took iron away from the fact that the two politicians coincided on the same day and at the same time in Barcelona.
Iglesias signs books this Saturday at six different points.
In fact, Díaz did not come to present her unauthorized autobiography but to accompany the writer Patrycia Centeno in the presentation of her book
De Ella Poderío
at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, in El Born.
The work, with the subtitle “feminine leadership, a change of posture”, criticizes the hegemonic heteropatriarchal leadership that, according to the author, “has not only forced us to become masculinized but also to defeminize ourselves”.
feel cared for
Before fifty people, the vice president, who has not mentioned the convulsive week, has indicated that the thesis defended in the book offers "a more complex look but of great interest for a transmutation in feminism itself".
Díaz has declared "you cannot be in politics without dreaming" and has pointed out that when she thinks of "the feminine I think of a country with multiple perspectives, that is welcoming, inclusive and tender".
She has criticized the myth of being "super safe and secure" and thinks that what people demand is to feel cared for.
Díaz has declared that “you cannot be in politics without dreaming and when I think of the feminine I think of a country with multiple perspectives, that welcomes, is inclusive and tender”.
The author is an expert in non-verbal communication and fashion has been the focus of part of the debate.
Díaz has lamented that the right makes a caricature of the way progressive people dress.
Given the comments received by the vice president for the way she dresses, the politician maintains "a position with a lot of distance."
Díaz added: “I am what I am because of a lot of women who have taught me and I don't need great heroines.
My references are my mother and her friends, the teachers I've had”.
Although she did not mention this week's episodes, the vice president, who always says that she will decide if she is a candidate when a "listening" process ends, has slipped that the only way out of the current democracy is through a female leadership: " It is very necessary for our country to have a female president,
The time has come for a powerful woman to lead her own space for a diverse, plural, friendly, inclusive country, without noise and without fear.
He has also assured that "whatever the woman is hers, I will work with her".
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