The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, left an image this Thursday open to political interpretation: sitting on the blue bench and with a very serious gesture while Pedro Sánchez, María Jesús Montero and Félix Bolaños applauded the approval of the amnesty law. The leader of Sumar has also made clear gestures in the last two days to mark ground against her government partners. On Wednesday, in the Executive control session, she clearly disassociated herself from the noisy exchange of accusations of corruption between the Socialists and the PP. And this Thursday she did not hesitate to also show her disagreement with Sánchez’s decision to renounce new Budgets and opt for the extension of the current ones after the call for early elections in Catalonia.
Díaz revealed in the halls of Congress that La Moncloa made the decision not to address new State accounts for 2025 without prior notice to its partners and when delegations from Sumar and the PSOE were meeting precisely to discuss criteria on the preparation of the Budgets. . “We respect the decision of the President of the Government, we do not share it, especially because we must continue governing and the workers and citizens who are experiencing an unprecedented inflation crisis need to continue gaining rights,” said the Vice President and Minister of Labor in the Congress.
The day before, Díaz had already given clear signs of his discomfort with the exchange of very harsh accusations of corruption between Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the socialists’ strategy of responding to the PP’s attacks on the Koldo case with other mentions of scandals that They have splashed the popular ones. “I am not going to participate in this show,” warned the leader of Sumar in response to a question from the PP parliamentary spokesperson, Miguel Tellado. Díaz even criticized some past decisions of the socialists such as the pardon of banker Alfredo Sáenz by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Sources close to the vice president downplayed her attitude after the approval of the amnesty law and limited themselves to pointing out that the situation in the country does not advise politicians to lavish public celebrations. The same sources assured that, despite these differences in criteria, there has been no significant disagreement between Díaz and the President of the Government.
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