“We are not all the same,” Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and leader of adding in the coalition of the progressive government reiterated on Saturday. In the closure of the Confederal Conger of CCOO, which re -elected Unai Sordo as the leader of the union, Díaz has claimed “the cleaning” of adding in front of the cases of corruption of “golfos” in the PSOE, as he has described those involved in the Santos Cerdán case. “We are clean, yes, we are clean. We have five clean ministries,” he said in reference to the departments of adding in the coalition and has pointed out that the problem of corruption “is not new, is called bipartisanism.”
In an intervention in which he has not questioned the future of the coalition government due to this crisis of corruption in the socialist ranks, Yolanda Díaz has demanded “democratic regeneration measures” to its executive partner to remove corruption and prevent it in the future. “It is not true what they are saying, you can end corruption,” said the leader of adding in the government.
“Zero corruption does exist,” said the auditorium with more than 700 trade unionists. “The left in our country does not steal, we have been taught at home, we do not steal. It is a class pride, it is our identity,” said Díaz, daughter of Suso Díaz, who was leader of CCOO in Galicia.
“Yes, I am ashamed of the behaviors of these golfs, of corrupt lords,” said Yolanda Díaz, who has regretted that in the pandemic while the Erte agreed in his ministry, “next to me there were golfos that were stealing”, in reference to the Ministry of Transportation and therefore to his former governance of the government José Luis Ábalos and his exile Koldo García.
To Trump: “The order and command time is over”
The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor has also dedicated a message, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, given his requirement for Spain to raise military expenditure to 5%, against which Spain has opposed. “The time of order and command in our country is over, we are not going to consent, we are a free, sovereign country,” said Yolanda Díaz, in statements directly directed against the US mandatory.
“We are not going to do what he wants,” Diaz insisted, who has reiterated that Spain is committed to increasing social spending and expansion of rights. “Our sovereignty is worth the same as yours and we will defend it and we will not allow us to give us lessons, Mr. Trump,” Yolanda Díaz added.
About the reduction of working hours and dismissal: “We are going to win”
The second vice president has informed in her speech a resounding defense of the reduction of the working day, which at the moment does not count the support in Parliament and faces a first challenge with the amendments to the whole presented by PP, Vox, and especially together. “I ask you to tell you to tell those who say that the reduction of the working day will not come out that of course we are doing, we will win,” said Yolanda Díaz.
“We do not want the working day to come to the third, we want it to be at first,” he said in a reference to the First Vice President, María Jesús Montero, who indicated at the inauguration of the CCOO Congress his commitment to carry out the measure: “If it is not at the first, the second or the third”.
The Labor Manager has argued that the opposition and the notices of employment losses and deterioration of the economy that is currently receiving the reduction of the working day, has already occurred with the labor reform and the increase in the minimum wage, and has claimed the strength and determination to take these measures to make it again with this measure.
“We are going to get it,” he said. “Remember the music, they say the same,” said Díaz, who has assured that “the reduction of the working day will reach the countryside, the women, the hospitality industry and all the productive sectors of our country.”
Díaz has also promised his fight to carry out the reform of dismissal, for which he has indicated resistance within the socialist part of the government. “I tell you to prepare you,” said the Minister of Labor: “We have everyone against.” In the same vein, he also pointed out that in the other part of the government they do not really share the increase in the minimum wage by law, to place it in 60% of the minimum wage.
“The government program must be fulfilled,” he told its coalition partners, in addition to encouraging the trade unionists to defend in the street the progress in rights. “We can put it very fat,” said Díaz, who has claimed the force of the left and the trade union movement in front of the rise of the right. “The words are not innocuous, they speak of a reactionary wave, but it is not an unstoppable wave, the one that generates hope that is unstoppable,” said Diaz.