FFive happy women wearing masks laughed side by side at the camera. Even the photo from Valencia is a message. “This is the beginning of a great cause,” declared Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz. Over the weekend, the coalition of five left-wing politicians at the Valencia Olympic Theatre attracted almost as much attention in Spain as the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Conservative Party (PP) recently held major party congresses in Mediterranean cities.
“Otras politicas” (another kind of politics) is the planned title of the meeting chaired by Monica Oltra, vice president of the Valencia region. But “Yolanda’s platform” will soon become more. So far, this is the name of the network that Yolanda Díaz started to build.The Minister of Labor is trying to find a bipartisan alternative to the ruling socialists left behind by the Prime Minister. Pedro Sanchez Creation-a “national project” shaped and led by women, such as the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, the leader of the parliamentary group Mónica García of the left-wing alternative party “Más Madrid” and the representatives of the Ceuta region and the female speaker of the Muslim “Dignity and Civic Movement” Fatima Hamid Hussein.
