Yolanda Díaz: “It is key to expand relations between Spain and Mexico”

The second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, indicated this Monday that relations between Spain and Mexico are in a good moment and that it is key for her Government to strengthen and expand them.

“We are going to maintain and expand relations between Spain and Mexico,” Díaz declared in Mexico City, after participating in the launch of the Ibero-American Network of Social and Solidarity Economy (REDESS) together with Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Chile, among others.

Relations between Spain and Mexico were “on pause” in 2022, when President López Obrador attacked the King, the Government of Pedro Sánchez and Spanish transnational companies, pointing out that the country had to stop seeing Mexico as a “land of conquest.” ”.

Those words, which coincided with the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, did not break bilateral relations, but they did cause a rift between both countries.

This Monday, Yolanda Díaz was scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena, who ultimately did not attend the meeting for health reasons.

The meeting took place with personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and members of the chancellor's team.

Díaz has described her relationship with the Mexican Government as “very positive” and has assured that her visits will be more frequent due to the multiple agreements in place.

“Mexico cannot be explained without Spain and vice versa, therefore, we have a common present and future,” she highlighted.

Díaz speaks during the conference of the Ibero-American Network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy, this Monday. Gladys Serrano

During the presentation of the REDESS, the vice president assured that another way of doing economics is possible and has stressed the importance of developing alternatives to neoliberalism in a “non-predatory” and “solidarity” way that contributes to curbing inequality and the gender gap. and those that respect the environment.

"The launch of the network is very important for the region, to launch the social economy in the world and to expand relations between Spain and Latin America."

It is a network that seeks to put into practice some of the UN's objectives, bringing together the largest number of States committed to promoting the social economy to exchange experiences and public policies.

Among other matters, Díaz's tour of Mexico has included a meeting with Claudia Sheinbaum, Morena's candidate for the presidency and whom all polls position as the favorite to win the elections.

Mexicans are called to the polls next June in a historic vote that will decide for the first time between two candidates: Sheinbaum and the opposition representative, Xóchitl Gálvez.

Díaz has indicated that it makes her “very happy” that the country has the first female president in its history and that it is necessary for women to reach the places where the world is governed.

“In this case, when they are occupied by a feminist woman, as is the case of the candidate, a beacon of hope opens,” he noted.

This Tuesday he is scheduled to participate in the colloquium 'Labor rights for a world in transformation' together with the Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

The vice president has insisted on the importance of reducing the working day, a debate that Mexico and Spain currently share.

“It is the time of life, the time of care and the time of not living to work, but on the contrary.

With the reduction of working hours we are going to be a better country, a slightly happier country and to modernize Spain,” she stated.

He has also spoken about the decision of Judge García-Castellón in Spain to extend the investigation of the

Tsunami

case

for six more months.

The events occur just one day before the key debate on the discussion of the Amnesty law for Catalan independentists takes place in Congress.

“Debates about amnesty are very legitimate, but I would ask that they be limited to political issues.

The examination of the constitutionality or non-constitutionality of the norm is the property of the Constitutional Court and we must leave it there,” he noted.

Díaz, leader of the Sumar party, has taken the opportunity to attack the Popular Party and has questioned its position on Catalonia: “The policy carried out by the PP was perverse because it consisted and consists of pitting one part of the Spaniards against another part. of the Spanish.”

The vice president has declared that if the norm is approved by a parliamentary majority “it will be a law of the Spanish people.”

“Let us respect democracy, institutions, the separation of powers and the legitimacy of each of the institutions in our country,” she concluded.

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