Urtasun avoids PSOE attacks against Yolanda Díaz and demands an “urgent overhaul” of the government because of the scandals

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Ernest Urtasun, minister and spokesperson for Sumar, demands an urgent overhaul of the government after recent corruption scandals and accuses the PSOE of immobility.

Yolanda Díaz demanded profound changes within the Executive and an immediate audit of the SEPI after the arrest and subsequent release, as a precautionary measure, of several people involved in this case.

Urtasun demands to find a social agenda and extend rental contracts which expire at the end of the year to protect families.

Moncloa sources reject the demands of Díaz and Sumar, refusing to admit an internal crisis and calling the demands for changes exaggerated.

Sumar does not accept the PSOE insult towards Yolanda Díaz and again urged the president Pedro Sanchez undertake profound changes within government, put an end to the loss of votes due to corruption scandals.

The Minister of Culture and spokesperson for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, demanded this Saturday a “urgent renovation” of the government and considered that “immobility” could not be the answer to cases of corruption and accusations of sexual harassment within the PSOE.

In his speech to the National Council of Commons, Urtasun warned that it was “premature and very daring“The refusal of Moncloa to undertake the changes demanded on Friday by Vice-President Yolanda Díaz.

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, this Friday during an interview with La Sexta.

The leader of the Labor Party, Yolanda Díaz, had demanded on Friday “profound changes in government, from top to bottom” and an “immediate audit of SEPI”, during an interview with La Sexta.

This was his reaction to the arrest of the plumber by Ferraz Leire Díez, former president of the National Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), Vicente Fernándezand the businessman Antxon Alonso (partner of Santos Cerdán in the construction company Servinabar), who were released this Saturday with precautionary measures, after having testified before the judge.

The judicial investigation was carried out, over the last few hours, with searches and requests for information at the headquarters of SEPI, Mercasa, Correos and the Ministries of Finance and Ecological Transition.

However, sources from Moncloa reacted with indignation to Yolanda Díaz’s call: “We are not going to fall into the right-wing trap of admitting to catharsis that is not true.“, as reported by EL ESPAÑOL.

Minister Ernest Urtasun assured this Saturday that he did not understand the “immobility” with which the PSOE is responding to this earthquake of corruption.

Something that has been attributed to the fact that socialists are not “assess the seriousness of what is happening in the last hours in Spain” and the “indignation” of citizens, he said in statements collected by Efe.

In addition to an “urgent overhaul” of the government, Urtasun asked to recover “a social agenda“, so as not to disappoint the voters of the investiture bloc.

“The social shield expires at the end of the year“, he recalled, “and we must take stock in the Council of Ministers. It is essential to update the measures.”

In this regard, he called on the PSOE to extend “the hundreds of thousands of rental contracts” which expire” in Spain, which depends on whether or not families can pay their rent.

“We need explanations from the president“, an in-depth overhaul of the Government and the recovery of a social agenda which begins with the renewal of the extension of the social shield”, summarized Sumar’s spokesperson.