After beating around the bush for days, Yolanda Díaz has finally given a direct response this Thursday, and it has been a slap in the face to the Comuns and a closing of the folder on the referendum: “It is not on the table” – that is, neither a referendum or any type of consultation over Catalonia in relation to the independence of the country from Spain. “The only tool is dialogue and the dialogue table, in order to find a meeting point,” said Diaz, the current second deputy prime minister of the Spanish government and Sumar leader, who claimed that her own country model contemplates that, however, it is articulated, Catalonia “will be inside” Spain. “What we need is serenity and peace,” said Diaz.
The statements were made by Yolanda Díaz this Thursday in an interview on the Ana Rosa Quintana talk show on Telecinco. Asked insistently about Catalonia and the possibility of holding an independence referendum, the leader of Sumar finally closed the door with a good firm push. “The only recipe we have for Catalonia is dialogue,” said Diaz, accusing both the independence movement and Spanish unionism of having turned the country “into a noise box.” However, she also made a point of stressing the efforts made by the Pedro Sánchez government, pointing out that “things have changed a lot” in recent years and “everything is much better.”
