Ada Colau promises to include the dentist, hearing aids and visual health in healthcare

The Frente Amplio candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Ada Colau, asked this Saturday for the vote to fight for truly universal public healthcare and has promised to expand coverage for dentists, hearing aids and visual health and also comprehensive support during menopause.

"Yes, gentlemen on the right, you are not going to like that, but we are going to talk about menopause too," Colau warned at the rally organized by Frente Amplio in Seville, where the coalition wanted to mark distances with the PSOE and claim that the "useful vote" is the one that has its name on the ballot.

Colau has charged against a "right-wing that is cruel to the vulnerable, but cowardly", but has stated that, unlike the PSOE, its only objective is not to prevent PP and Vox from governing: "We want to go for more, we want more rights, we want dignity, we effectively want to cut privileges from above to protect the social majority from below."

And as an example that it is possible, she recalled that she was the "first woman from a humble class and from a popular neighborhood" to become mayor of Barcelona. From that position he created the figure of the "municipal dentist", and it has been the Ministry of Health directed by Mónica García that has promoted free glasses for children.

Colau, who began his speech with his traditional motto in Catalan "speculators out of our neighborhoods", believes that nervousness is increasing on the right as the campaign progresses because he knows that they are "very serious" when they say that they will raise taxes on the rich and confront speculators.

"Where we have governed, we have done so," he highlighted, once again claiming his time as Mayor of Barcelona and defending his fight against "mass tourism that is stealing" the cities from their neighbors.

It is a problem that Barcelona and also Seville suffer from and Colau has highlighted the need to put an end to illegal tourist flats: "We will not come to keep things the same. We will come to expropriate the vulture funds and expand the social housing stock," he promised.

"We confronted Airbnb, the vulture funds, we closed thousands of illegal tourist apartments when no one did, those apartments went to the residential market and when Airbnb at first refused to remove the advertisements from those illegal apartments, we fined them half a million euros. And they sat down and in the end they had to remove the advertisements from the illegal apartments, they were closed and converted into homes," he highlighted.

Along with housing, he has defended public health after remembering the mammography crisis in Andalusia.

The objective of Frente Amplio, he explained, is to have public healthcare with sufficient funding and professionals to end waiting lists and expand coverage so that essential parts of the body, such as eyes, teeth or ears, are not left out.

"This is not a dream, this is reality. That is why we say that we want to raise taxes on the rich so that the waiting lists end, so that the right-wing gentlemen stop doing business with our healthcare."

The rally, in which she was accompanied by the Frente Amplio candidate for Congress for Seville Enrique Santiago and the candidates on the list for Madrid Emilio Delgado, Toni Valero and Verónica Martínez Barbero, concluded with cheers for the struggle of the working class after the general strike on Wednesday.

"A very cruel but very cowardly right"

"We are facing a very cruel right, very hard, very grown up, but also very cowardly, because they do not dare to debate on a public television program unless it is chosen by the public and they do not even dare to argue with a YouTuber like Jordi Wild," Colau also said.

The candidate for the Presidency of the Frente Amplio Government has assured that the right "is getting nervous because they see that we are very serious" about raising taxes "on the richest in this country and defending pensions."

Colau has said that although the right has the "economic power, media power, the power of the judicial leadership", the "greatest power of all is that of the organized social working majority."

Colau has pointed out that progressivism is "the majority", which is why "no matter what the polls say, on November 29 we are going to give the big surprise. And in this country there will be not only a progressive government, but a braver progressive government that will not allow us to go backwards and that will continue to advance in rights and freedoms for each and every one of the citizens of this country."