The Second Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Diazcame this Wednesday, September 25, to give a conference on democracy at Grenade and it was not well received by everyone. A group of university students protested angrily and demanded that the executive defend public university education.
The intervention took place at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, on the La Cartuja Campus. During this time, about thirty students demonstrated in front of the meeting room with slogans in favor of public university education, even if no incident occurred.
Inside, the minister is not entirely serene either. At one point in his speech, he was asked if he would go to work during the strike that the CGT and SAT unions called for this Friday, September 27, alongside several student associations. in solidarity with Palestine.
Yolanda Diaz responded to the protests by defending freedom of expression and pledging government support for the protest.It is important that students mobilize to end the genocide in Palestine,” he said.
Furthermore, Díaz defended the government’s work in this conflict by recognizing the Palestinian state and chose to “break off trade relations with Israel” and “impose brutal sanctions” against the state led by Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he did not hesitate to call a “war criminal.” He added that he maintains this discourse “anywhere” because it is necessary to “defend peace in the world.”
In fact, he tried to turn the situation around and get the young people on his side. “Today, there is a very active youth“We have just seen that these are better young people than those of my generation, with demands such as defending the climate or all the causes of war… I learn from young people every day,” he said.
On democracy, he warned against the rise of leaders such as Donald Trump, Javier Milei or Netanyahu himself. To fight them, he said, “more than anything, we need democrats,” as well as “active” citizens, because, he stressed, we are “not facing a joke.”
