Díaz certifies her support for Sánchez but calls for an end to the use of special jurisdiction.

Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz on Monday affirmed her support for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. However, far from easing the ongoing crisis within the coalition, she demanded a series of measures to "eradicate corruption." These measures include, among other things, ending the right to special jurisdiction and banning bribery companies from participating in future public procurement contracts.

Just arrived from Moncloa Palace, where she met for an hour with Sánchez to analyze the implications of the Koldo case involving the former PSOE organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, Díaz expressed her "revulsion" at corruption and issued a warning to the Prime Minister following explanations that she described as "insufficient": "We have heard in recent days that corruption is inevitable, but this is absolutely false. All politicians are not equal. I am a clean person," she noted, adding, referring to the five Sumar representatives in the Executive, that all of them "are part of a clean political space. It's not true, corruption is not inevitable, enough with the cynicism," she concluded with a direct barb at Sánchez.

The Sumar leader, who has once again called for a reset of the legislative session, has demanded that the Prime Minister make a "180-degree turn" in the coalition government with "respect, deadlines, and transparency." In this regard, she has elicited a commitment from the PSOE to urgently convene a follow-up meeting on the coalition agreement to address the various reforms promoted by Sumar and that the government's majority partner has blocked in this first half of the legislative session. All of them related to access to housing, paternity leave, and the universal childcare benefit.

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"Why aren't we passing the Internship Statute or the Sustainable Consumption Act now? What's stopping us? The time has come; the shift must be respectful and within deadlines. No more deadlocks; we must change the way we work, and we must do so transparently," the second vice president emphasized.

The crisis of trust between the government's partners remains unresolved, pending the fulfillment of the assurances given by Sánchez to Díaz that the Cerdán scandal will not spread to any ministry.

However, sources close to the leadership of the confederal space assured last night that the bridges have begun to be rebuilt: "It is not peace and love, but things are better than last Thursday," they told La Vanguardia to neutralize the scandal without mortgaging themselves in case new audios emerge that aggravate the corruption.