Last minute of the elections, live | Sumar’s new spokesman assures that the negotiations are advancing: “We are not going to wait until the last minute. There is no veto” | Spain

2023-06-07 15:58:16

What has happened in the last hours

46 days before the general elections on July 23, this is the highlight of the day at 2:00 p.m. this Wednesday:

– Sumar’s new spokesman assures that the negotiations are advancing: “We are not going to wait for the last minute. There is no veto”. Sumar’s campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, on Wednesday assessed the progress of the coalition’s negotiations with the rest of the formations to the left of the PSOE. “We are finalizing the agreement,” Urtasun told the media after a visit to Doñana with Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and leader of Sumar. “We are not going to wait for the last minute,” he added, although he admits that it is “a complex puzzle.” For his part, the spokesman for Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has called for an agreement between Sumar and Podemos. “It should have been days ago and we are wasting precious campaign time to make the proposals known to the public and to campaign as other parties are doing.”

– Robles claims the PSOE project and charges against Podemos: “They are fighting for a position on the lists”. The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, this Wednesday claimed the PSOE as “the only” “viable and solid” project, with “140 years of history.” “There are others who seem to be fighting to occupy a space on the electoral lists”, she has said about Podemos and its confluence with ‘Sumar’. In an interview on Antena 3, Robles said that she does not like to talk about other political forces and it is not up to her to assess the drift of Podemos: “They will know what they have to do.”

– Ribera and Robles, numbers two and four of the PSOE for Madrid for the generals. Sánchez is placing the ministers who have expressed their interest in going to the electoral contest in exit positions on the lists. This is the case of Isabel Rodríguez, Minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, who will head the list for Ciudad Real, or Luis Planas, head of Agriculture, who will head the list for Córdoba. María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance, will be the first on the list for Seville, while Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation, and former Minister José Luis Ábalos will head the list for Valencia.

– Gamarra: “Sánchez changes the streets for the sets; he cannot step on the street because of the rejection of the people ”. The general secretary of the PP and coordinator of the program for the 23-J elections, Cuca Gamarra, this Wednesday accused the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, of calling the general elections in the summer to “change the scenario of the campaign, which is the street, by the sets”. In her opinion, she does it “because he cannot step on the street, because of the rejection of the people”, expressed at the polls in the municipal and regional elections of 28-M. In addition, she has affirmed that she maintains the offer that the most voted list govern, despite the fact that she has just reached an agreement to govern the Canary Islands, where he was the third force, with the Canarian Coalition, second. Borja Sémper, spokesperson for the party, has also defended this agreement, saying that precedence for the list with the most votes must be “a measure shared by all the parties, and at the moment it is not.”

– Díaz, in Doñana: “The debate is whether we want to be a renewable power or turn Spain into the desert of Europe”. Yolanda Díaz, second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, offered statements to the media this Wednesday from Doñana, a protected area in the midst of a crisis due to the lack of water. “Spain is a highly vulnerable country in the face of the climate emergency,” said Díaz, who stressed that “there is no alternative” to the environmental and climate crisis and, therefore, social. “Spain is a highly vulnerable country in the face of the climate emergency,” she insisted. “The debate that our country is having today is whether we want to be a renewable power in Europe or if, on the contrary, we want to become the desert of Europe. This is the debate that we have in our country”, Díaz stressed, who has charged the PP for the law that brought training to the Andalusian Parliament to legalize illegal irrigation in Doñana and that has caused a national political storm whose echoes have reached also to Europe. “They are determined to break the law,” she said about the conservative party, and accused Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, of wanting to “abound in ecological crime.”