(Politics) Socialists view Yolanda Díaz's political movements with prevention

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The Government rushes to close ranks with the vice president in the face of the PP offensive

 

In Moncloa and the PSOE they admit that they are observing "carefully" Yolanda Díaz's movements to create a new political space with which she could attend the next general elections. With care and prevention, but warn that "without any concern." Today, they assure that the second vice president is an "asset" for the Government, like all the members of the Council of Ministers, but they do not consider her an "electoral threat" for the PSOE.

Rather, on the contrary, the socialists will need United Podemos, or the space that Díaz could lead at the polls, "not to deflate and hold out." In the PSOE they trust the electoral resistance of that space, in addition to their own strength, that a progressive government can be reissued after the next general elections. In front they will have a bloc on the right, made up of the PP and Vox, whose votes would be profitable with a greater translation in seats thanks to the disappearance of the map that they predict to Citizens. However, they consider that Díaz's movements to promote what could be a new political project with which he will stand in the elections would be a bit “hasty”.

The Labor Minister defends the management against the virus and accuses Casado of creating an "artificial controversy"
In Moncloa they thus wield the determination to exhaust the legislature, with new budgets that again seem on track after the latest negotiations with ERC and the PNV, and the intention of presenting another draft of accounts next year. In other words, according to their calendar, the generals would not be held until the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024. Too long, perhaps, to keep the flame alive.

After the last clash between Yolanda Díaz and Nadia Calviño for the internal organization of the Government before the negotiation of the labor reform, the Minister of Labor returns to star in a controversy that generated discomfort in the socialist sector of the Executive and the PSOE, and that they take advantage of the PP, Vox and Cs to deploy a renewed offensive against the Government.

Socialist sources thus admit that the statements Diaz made on Thursday about his warnings in February 2020 about the impact that the coronavirus could have were "unfortunate" or "an error", later reflected in a guide with precautions for companies that He acknowledged that it was very controversial even within the government itself. Regardless of the fact that some inscribe these statements in their political strategy, above all they criticize that they serve as ammunition for the right wing, which interpreted them as recognition that the Government had prior information on what was to come and, despite everything, later allowed large concentrations such as the feminist demonstration on March 8. Diaz herself, however, insisted yesterday on trying to settle the controversy. "We have been exemplary in managing the pandemic," she reiterated after the Council of Ministers. And she directed her criticism to the right, especially against a Pablo Casado who yesterday wielded the Prosecutor's Office on suspicion that the Government could "hide information" and delay the adoption of measures. PP, Vox and Cs claim to investigate whether information was withheld from the public. "This is indeed a great artificial controversy," replied Díaz, who recalled that at that time the PP also branded it as "alarmist." "The PP does the same today: generate a great artificial controversy," she insisted. And she did not want to enter to assess whether her statements could generate discomfort in the Government and the PSOE, or if they could have been a mistake in giving wings to the confrontational strategy of the right. She stressed that even the World Health Organization (WHO) set Spain "as an example in the management of the pandemic."

The harsh offensives of the right, however, are always the best glue to dissent in the government coalition, which hastened to close ranks. The minister spokesperson, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez, assured that the entire Executive is at one, focused on the economic recovery, agreed to denounce Casado, and used the same arguments as Díaz when placing Spain, according to the WHO, "as an example of the best management of the pandemic ”.

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