Yolanda Díaz: "The president and I will reach a meeting point"

The Second Vice President of the Government, Minister of Labor and main institutional position of United We Can, Yolanda Díaz, met this Wednesday in Rome with her Italian counterpart, Andrea Orlando, and with the European Employment Commissioner, Nicolas Schmit.

It is the third time that Díaz has visited the Italian capital since last October.

And the second is that, while she deals with bilateral issues related to employment, the government coalition in Spain is on fire.

This time, on account of the increase in military spending announced by the president, Pedro Sánchez, and materialized in a first special credit of 1,000 million euros last Tuesday in the Council of Ministers despite the rejection of United We Can.

Díaz, who as a result of that confrontation called for an urgent meeting of the coalition's monitoring commission on Wednesday,

has shown today sure to solve the problem.

"The president and I will reach a meeting point," she said.

The meeting of that monitoring commission, which will be the sixth in two and a half years of the coalition government, does not yet have a date.

The preference of the PSOE and United We Can is to celebrate it as soon as possible to close the last crisis in the coalition before the debate on the state of the nation next week.

But the complexity of the calendar and balancing the agendas of the representatives of each party is making it difficult to close a day.

“We have always shown our absolute predisposition to speak at the agreement table, but the need must also fit with the availability.

We are experiencing frenetic activity in the Executive and in Parliament... The time frame will be settled, the important thing is our willingness to discuss meeting points beyond differences", said the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Hector Gomez.

“We will meet as soon as possible, I think it will be quickly.

The important thing is that once again the challenge is gigantic.

Today, more than ever, our progressive coalition is essential”, Díaz has assumed in turn.

Sources from United We Can share that the intention is that it be held, in any case, before the start of the debate on the state of the nation.

The second vice president has sent a message of calm on the substance of the matter: “I know that the president and I will look for all the imaginative formulas to reach an agreement on the defense budget.

But also so that the people in my country do not suffer more.

I send a message from Italy: more coalition than ever”, she stated.

“It would be a good idea if it was before the debate.

When we first have it

Both PSOE and United We Can have made an effort this Wednesday to contain the tension ―President Sánchez and the minister and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, have exchanged thanks and good words in an act on childhood in Madrid early in the morning― but at the At the same time they remain firm in their positions.

The government spokeswoman, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez, has remarked, in an interview on RNE, that spending on defense is a decision that falls to the president and is not negotiated.

“That is how we have expressed it.

It is a country commitment ”, she has settled.

Rodríguez has asked Podemos to rethink its position in view of what “not at all suspicious countries” have done, such as Finland or Sweden, traditionally neutral and that have begun their accession to NATO.

"I want to remember that there is a war at the gates of Europe and that our country made a decision in unity with the decision of the European Union and that it has been ratified at the NATO summit," he added.

“We have carried out two Budgets with difficulties and now we are going to do it again”.

Belarra has also affirmed that "at this moment" the stability of the Government is "guaranteed".

“The coalition is a success for the left.

The one who has fought it the most has been Podemos”, he claimed, before emphasizing: “There were four elections to try to prevent a political force like ours from being in the Government”.

Sumar presentation ceremony

Yolanda Díaz will present Sumar this Friday, the electoral and political platform with which she will foreseeably try to attend the next general elections.

“I am very hopeful for the project that I am launching.

I also call in Italy for the whole world to join a democratic and citizen movement.

I am concerned about the fracture between citizenship and politics.

And that is only the fault of politics”, she pointed out today from Rome.

In addition, she has explained that the presentation of the project is done during Pride week on purpose.

“I want a country that is diverse, feminist, and culturally a bastion that makes us better as citizens.

I want it to be a day of celebration and to draw the country that we love.

Spain can be better.

It is not what some people want us to see.”

In the morning, Belarra had assured that she would not attend that act because she had been expressly requested (it was deduced that Diaz herself) not to attend.

Echenique did quote the head of Labor: "Yolanda has asked us not to go and we respect the decision," she reiterated.

“She defines the steps and the times.

She is how she has to be,” she added.

Asked about it, the second vice president has denied it: “It is not true that I have said that the parties are not there.

I have talked to each and every one of them.

I make an appeal so that all its people are in that act, but the leading role belongs to the citizens, ”she clarified.

The leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, confirmed the presence of his formation at a press conference.

“It is an act eminently of civil society, in which the leading role does not belong to the political forces.

In accordance with that idea and that spirit of the act, we have not yet decided who will represent us, but we will be well represented,” said the deputy, who claimed to have discussed the issue with Díaz.

Izquierda Unida has communicated this Wednesday that the spokesperson for the formation, Sira Rego, the leader of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, and the Valencian councilor Rosa Pérez will attend.

Sources from the platform affirm that from the first day the idea was conveyed that the politicians who attended the meeting would do so individually, but there would not be a row of seats for parties, precisely to send the message that it is a project of citizen and non-partisan extraction.

who claimed to have discussed the issue with Diaz.

Izquierda Unida has communicated this Wednesday that the spokesperson for the formation, Sira Rego, the leader of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, and the Valencian councilor Rosa Pérez will attend.

Sources from the platform affirm that from the first day the idea was conveyed that the politicians who attended the meeting would do so individually, but there would not be a row of seats for parties, precisely to send the message that it is a project of citizen and non-partisan extraction.

who claimed to have discussed the issue with Diaz.

Izquierda Unida has communicated this Wednesday that the spokesperson for the formation, Sira Rego, the leader of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, and the Valencian councilor Rosa Pérez will attend.

Sources from the platform affirm that from the first day the idea was conveyed that the politicians who attended the meeting would do so individually, but there would not be a row of seats for parties, precisely to send the message that it is a project of citizen and non-partisan extraction.