“Politics is what matters”

This is the first photo of Yolanda Diaz and Inigo Erekhon in a public act. This is on the verge of starting a process of “listening” to the second vice president for a hypothetical political project that will run in the 2023 elections and show good political harmony between the two. This happened this Thursday, at a presentation by a panel of experts on the impact of job insecurity on mental health, and served to highlight the “glorious” relationship “against the backdrop of a reactionary attack that fills politics with fear.” “I hope I do not bother him if I say that I wish he was like that with the whole government,” joked Más País’s spokesman.

The commission, which was represented this Thursday, “was part of a meeting with Pai during an intense debate on labor reform,” said Diaz, for whom the agreement “shows that policies are beneficial to what is important to citizens.” “I want to thank Inigo directly,” he said. The MP was happy that this project is “the result of an agreement.” “We said we were going to support labor reform because we thought it was good and we wanted nothing in return. “The Ministry of Labor asked us what we wanted to add, and we said that one of the things that needed to be given more scope was mental health,” he explained.

“This agreement is possible because we share the stubborn and stubborn effort needed to bring politics back into everyday life,” said Erehon, who was convinced that “this is a political hope that I think will allow us to look ahead.” In his speech, the leader of Más País stressed the “good harmony” with the vice-president, but did not mention the process that Diaz intends to start and for which he intends to create an excellent platform on the left. PSOE.

This is not the first approach of the Vice President in the circle of Erekhon’s party. In November, Diaz staged an event in Valencia with other left-wing political parties, which he described as “the beginning of something wonderful.” The Podemos minister was not invited, but he was told by Madrid leader Monica Garcia that a “new cycle” would open that day in which women would be the “protagonists”.

In recent months, the vice president has indicated his intention to begin a “listening” process with various civil society actors to support the government’s hypothetical candidacy for the presidency in the upcoming general election scheduled for 2023. Diaz, for the time being, is reluctant to disclose whether he would lead, but for what he avoids acronyms, and that, for the moment, he has stopped to focus on the executive in the wake of the war-torn crisis. In Ukraine. “If it were not for the situation, I would have started it now,” he confirmed in late March.

Although they have repeatedly avoided talking about possible electoral mergers from the diaspora environment, many eyes are drawn to Erehon in the context of this “country project” configuration. He said in December 2021 that the vice president’s idea “sounds very good”, although he considered it “premature” to talk about mergers and United we can point out that he is the one who will be best able to restore. Co-founder of Podemos, who left the formation in 2019 to make a tandem with Manuel Carmen in the regional and municipal elections in Madrid the same year. In October, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, again opened the door for Erekhon to share the list, saying that “if there is anyone who can achieve this, it is Yolanda Diaz.”

In this act, Diaz and Erekhon coincided and cited mental health as one of the problems that plagues society. The second vice-president assured that this commission would complete the tasks of the Spanish government. ” “We will obey the Ministry of Labor and we will do it again,” he said, acknowledging that “a culture of risk prevention at work can be improved.”

Erehon noted that the commission showed that “politics needs to deal with issues that are obvious to the public.” “People have stomach aches the next day because of the meeting with the boss, because the company does not fulfill the forecasts and is thrown out on the street or can not sleep,” he said. At the same time, he stressed the need for a “second wave of mental health stigma”, which makes these problems visible in society, beyond celebrities. He insisted that “during the bifurcation of the legislature, in which it intends to decide how the burden will be distributed,” we must also look at the burden of mental health.

The Occupational Safety and Mental Health Commission will be coordinated by Joan Benach, Professor of Public Health at the University of Pompeii Fabra, and will be composed of twelve professionals and academics in the fields of Occupational Law, Public Health, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Criticism. Thinking and culture. The presentation was also attended by writer and essayist Remedio Zafra and clinical psychiatry specialist Belen Gonzalez Callado, director of the Madrid Association of Mental Health, and Carlos Arantz, director of the National Institute for Safety and Health (INSST).