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44-493: En Marea would receive the support of Galician Eco-socialist Space (EcoSoGal) for the 2015 general election, which was joined by Equo 's support in the June 2016 election. Both parties would end up joining the confluence in the run up to the 2016 Galician regional election , ahead of which the coalition partners chose to constitute En Marea as a political party, which was officially registered as such on 10 August 2016. In January 2019,

88-629: A coalition, unlike other voices within IU. She advocated the sole investiture of Pedro Sánchez , while reaching an agreement on a programme for government. She distanced herself from IU over disagreements over how IU had handled the negotiations and eventually left the party in October 2019, while remaining a member of the PCE. Appointed as minister of Labour and Social Economy of the Sánchez II Government , Díaz

132-629: A paralegal for a law firm. Later, she registered as an attorney at law and opened her own law firm, which specialised in labour law . Díaz joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) at an early age, before entering institutional politics in 2003, when she became member of the Ferrol municipal council. In 2005, she was elected leader (National Coordinator) of Esquerda Unida (EU), the Galician federation of United Left (IU). Díaz stood as candidate in

176-481: A party that was left without parliamentary representation as its MEP Manu Pineda lost re-election due to him being placed fourth on the list. As a consequence, on 10 June 2024, Yolanda Díaz announced that she was leaving her leadership positions at Sumar, remaining as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour. Diaz, still a member of the Communist Party of Spain , now avoids declaring herself as one and focus entirely on left-wing voters, although she has praised

220-441: A political party to contest the regional election. This had been opposed by the regional branch of Podemos, which had concurrently held a membership vote that resulted in 75% of party members favouring the electoral alliance format instead. This led to a deadlock in negotiations, as En Marea rejected the formula of the electoral coalition whereas Podemos refused both joining into the instrumental party and its trademark not appearing on

264-520: A reduction in the gender pay gap, and a fall in the temporary employment rate. Diaz firmly opposes holding an independence referendum in Catalonia and emphasizes that the only solution is dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the issue, asserting that Catalonia will remain part of Spain in her country model. She wants to reduce the working week from 40 hours to 37.5 hours, without any reduction in pay. She also proposed opening "a major social debate" on

308-470: A renewed interest within the left-wing political space in Galicia , specially from Podemos and Xosé Manuel Beiras 's Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood (Anova), to engage in talks ahead of a prospective " confluence " of similarly-aligned parties to contest that year's general election . By the summer of 2015, the "Citizen Meeting for a Galician Tide" ( Galician : Encontro Cidadán por unha Marea Galega ) and

352-431: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Galicia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yolanda D%C3%ADaz Yolanda Díaz Pérez ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoˈlanda ˈði.aθ] ; born 6 May 1971) is a Spanish politician and labour lawyer , currently serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister since 2021, and Minister of Labour and Social Economy of

396-629: The Commitment to Europe alliance, seeing poor performances in both elections. Ahead of the November 2019 general election , it considered an alliance with either CxG, Anova and the BNG or with Íñigo Errejón 's Más País , but talks were unsuccessful and it ultimately declined to run altogether. En Marea had initially dropped out from the 2020 Galician regional election race following the resignation of Villares and his farewell from politics on 19 February, but after it

440-779: The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG). Ideologically they define themselves as eco-socialists . Their leader is Xoán Hermida González , former coordinator of the Left of Galicia party in the Parliament of Galicia . Its origin is in the Ben Común initiative, which brought together people of Galician nationalist left , and people inspired by the demands of the 15-M . Ecogaleguistas maintains close relations with Initiative for Catalonia Greens , Alternatiba , Iniciativa del Poble Valencià and IniciativaVerds . Between May and September 2012

484-535: The Government of Spain since 2020. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Spain , in 2023 she founded the electoral platform Sumar , as well as its instrumental party Movimiento Sumar, resigning as the leader of the alliance in 2024. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016, having previously been a Ferrol municipal councillor (2003–2012) and member of the Parliament of Galicia (2012–2016). She

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528-570: The "Initiative for the Union" (Galician: Iniciativa pola Unión , IxU) platforms had been set up as meeting points for discussion between left-wing and Galician nationalist political forces, seeing the incorporation of United Left of Galicia (EU)—allied with Anova under the Galician Left Alternative umbrella—the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), Commitment to Galicia (CxG), Galician Eco-socialist Space (EcoSoGal), Equo and Cerna into

572-437: The "rationalisation of working hours", given that Spanish workers on average finish their working day later than their European counterparts. The right-wing opposition parties strongly opposed this plan. Vox went so far as to claim that the government wanted to ban "joy and celebration" and impose "communist terror". In October 2023, Díaz called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop what she called

616-537: The 2016, April 2019 , and November 2019 general elections, running as candidate for the En Marea in the former, and for En Común–Unidas Podemos and Galicia en Común in the latter. She left the role of EU Coordinator General in June 2017, and was replaced by Eva Solla . Following the failure of talks to build a coalition government between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos in the summer of 2019, Díaz spoke out in favour of such

660-679: The 2019 budget in March—in which Villares-aligned deputy Alexandra Fernández broke party discipline —with the parliamentary group in the Parliament of Galicia remaining united until the appointment of regional senators in June 2019, when Villares and three other deputies broke up to go into the Mixed Group. En Marea contested the April 2019 general election, as well as the May 2019 European Parliament election within

704-474: The 25 September election, in which the party scored 19.1% of the vote and attained second place regionally, but remained in opposition after being unable to prevent the People's Party of Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo from securing a new absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia . En Marea's internal situation remained fragile throughout the tenure of the 10th Parliament. Villares's appointment as

748-415: The ballot, with the possibility arising of both parties eventually confronting each other in the regional election. A last minute deal was reached on 13 August, after national Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias anticipated that his party would run together with En Marea "whatever the formula was". Subsequently, Luis Villares , a judge running as an independent , was picked and elected as En Marea's candidate for

792-665: The confluence in January 2019 and dub it as a "failed" political project, while hinting at the creation of a new, separate alliance. This was materialized in the establishment of the En Común coalition ahead of the April 2019 Spanish general election . En Marea remained integrated within the Unidos Podemos 's group in the Congress of Deputies until the latter's dissolution following the failed voting on

836-537: The creation of the 'Working From Home Law' (in Spanish, Ley del Teletrabajo) . On 15 March 2021, the then second vice-president of the government, Pablo Iglesias , announced that he would leave the post to run as Podemos candidate for the regional elections in the Community of Madrid , which had been brought forward due to the collapse of the conservative government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso formed by PP and Ciudadanos , with

880-442: The election" to form separate groups, Anova attempted to have the confluence registered as an "intrumental" party for the 2016 election in order to be able to circumvent this obstacle. This was opposed by both Podemos and EU which defended the figure of the coalition instead, arguing that the problem ultimately did not lie in the electoral formula at use but on the "sensivity" of the Congress's board. An internal crisis ensued throughout

924-419: The following days, with public confrontations between several leaders—such as Beiras (Anova) and Yolanda Díaz (EU)—and Anova's threat of holding a membership vote on the issue of the electoral formula despite all other En Marea members voting against it, bringing the confluence to the brink of dissolution. Ultimately, Anova and Beiras backed down to avoid fracturing En Marea, and the alliance was maintained under

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968-493: The general election altogether. Equo and Cerna would also drop out for different reasons: the former because of alleged "deficiencies in democratic participation", whereas the latter dropped out citing the failure in reaching an alliance with the BNG as the reason. The resulting alliance, which would comprise Podemos, Anova and EU, would be labeled as "En Marea" (English: In Tide ) and officially registered on 6 November 2015. The alliance scored an election success by securing 25.0% of

1012-530: The increase of the minimum wage to 950 euros per month, in addition to outlawing employee dismissal for medical leave. She also took part in the dispatch of labour inspections to the agricultural sector to monitor the working conditions of rural workers. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic , Diaz negotiated with unions and employers the implementation of a furlough scheme (in Spanish, Expediente de Regulación Temporal de Empleo - ERTE) and its extensions, as well as

1056-473: The intention to contest in the 2023 Spanish general election . The platform was also registered as a political party under the name Movimiento Sumar  [ es ] ("Unite Movement" in English) in order to form coalitions with other leftist parties. In November 2023, she was ratified in her government positions for the third government of Pedro Sánchez . The Sumar electoral coalition participated in

1100-528: The list of the Galician Left Alternative (AGE) coalition between EU and Anova in the October 2012 Galician regional election , becoming a member of the 9th Parliament of Galicia , representing the constituency of A Coruña . Díaz ran as a candidate for En Marea in the 2015 Spanish general election , becoming a member of the 11th session of the Lower House of the Spanish parliament . She retained her seat in

1144-831: The parliamentary group over Villares's performance as party spokesperson and his clashing with Podemos members—who comprised about half of the group—which led to a gradual weakening of Villares's stand as leader among the parties forming En Marea. The situation was aggravated in March 2018 when a policial incident involving a regional MP, Paula Quinteiro—a member of the Anticapitalistas current within Podemos—divided En Marea members between those demanding her resignation (including Beiras and Villares) and those defending her innocence (Podemos members, but also Ferreiro and Santiago de Compostela mayor Martiño Noriega). This internal division

1188-417: The party saw its founding members — Podemos, Anova, and EU, as well as the local tides — splitting and eventually coalescing around the Galicia en Común alliance. The success of the local " tides " ( mareas ) in the 2015 Spanish local elections — with Marea Atlántica , Compostela Aberta , and Ferrol en Común forming the local governments of A Coruña , Santiago de Compostela , and Ferrol — had led to

1232-464: The party was one of the founding formations of Compromiso por Galicia (CxG), but after failing to reach an agreement and coalition between CxG and Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood , Espazo Ecosocialista decided to leave CxG and integrated in the Galician Left Alternative coalition, created by Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood , United Left and Equo . This article about a political party in Spain

1276-482: The party's sole leader and spokesperson in April 2017 had resulted in Equo dropping out of En Marea because of perceiving "defects" in the internal organization style, but also saw criticism coming from A Coruña mayor Xulio Ferreiro because of it "breaking" consensus "and excluding majority sensibilities" within the confluence, such as Ferreiro's Marea Atlántica itself, but also Anova or EU. Divisions were also evident within

1320-575: The regimes of Fidel Castro in Cuba and of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in the past. In 2021 Diaz wrote positively of The Communist Manifesto , stating that "Throughout all this time, The Communist Manifesto has continued to develop its programmatic character to the tempo of the century, with its global economic crises and great revolutions. Capitalism has been ever present in all of its diverse and voracious mutations, ready to engulf, corrupt, and disintegrate

1364-523: The regional elections of Galicia, the Basque Country and Catalonia at the beginning of 2024. In none of these elections did it achieve good results. Yolanda Díaz maintained her intention to run in the European elections on 9 June , with Estrella Galán at the helm. In these elections, Sumar obtained 3 deputies out of 61, results valued negatively by the members of the coalition, especially by Izquierda Unida ,

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1408-555: The same format as in the December election. Following the 2016 general election, in which En Marea fell to third place in Galicia after losing 63,000 votes and three percentage points, discussions took place on the alliance's future ahead of the 2016 Galician regional election . In an assembly held in Vigo on 30 July, Anova, EU and the local tide platforms voted in favour of constituting En Marea as

1452-455: The share and finishing in second place ahead of the Socialists' Party of Galicia . The failure in government formation negotiations led to a new general election being called for 26 June 2016 . As en Marea had not been able to form a parliamentary group on its own due to the board of the Congress of Deputies blocking it, alleging the legal impossibility for parties "not competing each other in

1496-529: The support of Vox . Announcing his candidacy, Pablo Iglesias handed over the vice-presidency to Yolanda Díaz as his successor, who officially accepted the position that same day. On the same Monday, in a press conference from Montauban , the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, also confirmed the succession of the vice-presidency to Díaz, declaring that he had "the highest regard" for her. In July 2021, Díaz

1540-438: The talks, with the ultimate goal of creating a "Galician Tide" (Galician: Marea Galega ), an electoral alliance able to secure a Galician-only parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies . Negotiations throughout September 2015 ensued, but stalled over Podemos's demands of its name appearing on the ballot clashing with Galician-based parties' stance to set up an autonomous candidacy "without subordinations". A pre-agreement

1584-578: The very reality that constitutes it, but without ever being able to escape the theories of Marx and the transforming power of this text. A book that speaks to us of utopias encrypted in our present and in which beats, today as yesterday, a vital and passionate defense of democracy and freedom." While campaigning for 2023 elections in Madrid, she expressed her desire to break with bipartisan politics. Diaz describes herself as an atheist, but claims meeting Pope Francis, who regularly criticises uncontrolled capitalism,

1628-415: Was "the most important encounter" of her life, and the two keep in touch because they "have so much in common." In 2023, Diaz defended the social record of the coalition, arguing that "Despite the “re-armament of the defense of neoliberal policies” in this progressive coalition government “we have been able to deconstruct the myths of capitalism.” Diaz cited examples such as measures to prevent unemployment,

1672-750: Was also the National Coordinator of Esquerda Unida (EU) from 2005 to 2017. Born in San Valentín, Fene , on 6 May 1971, next to the shipyard of Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste (ASTANO), Díaz is a member of a family of renowned trade unionists in Galicia who were strongly involved in anti- Francoist activism. Díaz graduated with a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), and later earned three post-graduate degrees. Upon concluding her studies, she commenced working as

1716-472: Was finally approved on 3 February 2022. Also in November 2021, Díaz led a group of left-leaning female leaders ( Ada Colau , Mónica Oltra , Mónica García , and Fátima Hamed Hossain ) in unveiling a new initiative called Otras Políticas , a play on words meaning both "other female politicians" and "other policies". On 18 May 2022, Díaz publicly announced a new electoral platform named Sumar ("Unite"), with

1760-489: Was mirrored in subsequent party assemblies and meetings. In late 2018, a crisis concerning the election of a new party leadership resulted in a split between Luís Villares's supporters and En Marea's founding members, Podemos, Anova and EU. Villares was re-elected as party leader on 24 December 2018 despite the latter parties' attempts to mount an alternative candidacy, but his victory came amid accusations of fraud and vote rigging, prompting Podemos, Anova and EU to withdraw from

1804-484: Was promoted from third to second Deputy Prime Minister. In November, Díaz announced her intention to create a political platform to contest in the next Spanish general elections, starting a "listening process" after the Christmas holidays, popularly identified by the media as a "broad front". That same month, Díaz also announced that by the end of 2022 labour reforms under Mariano Rajoy would be abolished and replaced. It

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1848-643: Was reached between Podemos, Anova and EU on 23 September and subsequently offered to the local tide platforms, under which the future platform was to be recognized autonomy as a "Galician political subject". Joint action between the Galician Tide and IxU platforms stopped from mid-October because of the former disagreeing with having any new party join the confluence, leading to IxU and the BNG to break away to negotiate their own electoral alliance . A final meeting on 31 October only confirmed that both platforms would go their separate ways, leading to CxG refusing contesting

1892-543: Was suspended and rescheduled for 12 July as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic the party announced that it would be contesting it within the Marea Galeguista alliance. Espazo Ecosocialista Galego Espazo Ecosocialista Galego (EcoSoGal, Galician Eco-socialist Space ), also known as Ecogaleguistas , is a Galician political party which was formed on 26 May 2012 after a process of confluence of Galician left-wing militants mostly from various social movements and

1936-460: Was sworn in on 13 January 2020. Díaz, who put the struggle against precarious work as the main goal of her mandate, vowed to repeal the 2012 labour market reform. She chose Joaquín Pérez Rey to hold the post of Secretary of State for Labour and Social Economy, making him the effective second-in-command in the Ministry. As Minister of Labour, Díaz took part in the negotiations that paved the way for

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