The second vice president of the government and leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, will leave his position in the Government to be a candidate for . As he himself has advanced this Monday, he has proposed to Sánchez to break up the portfolio so that the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, assumes the vice presidency while Ione Belarra, current Secretary of State for Agenda 2039¡0, takes charge of the Ministry of Rights Social.
“Madrid is currently facing a new risk, which is a risk for Madrid but also for Spain; that there is a far-right government,” Iglesias warned when announcing his decision, which he shared on Twitter through a video statement .
Asked about this issue by President Sánchez, he confirmed during a press conference together with Emmanuel Macron, who spoke in the morning with Iglesias, that he wished him luck (“although not as much as Ángel Gabilondo”, PSOE candidate for the Community de Madrid) and that he thanked him for his work in the Government, with special mention of the management of residences during the harshest times of the pandemic.
On the future of Yolanda Díaz, Sánchez has confirmed that he has “the best of opinions” of the Minister of Labor and that he will maintain, as the government agreement says, “a Second Vice Presidency that represents United We Can and, in that sense, not there will be no problem or misunderstanding”, he pointed out to practically confirm the approach of Iglesias in the absence of the changes being officially announced.
Iglesias will leave on April 17 at the latest
Iglesias’s strategy to seize the region from Isabel Díaz Ayuso -and about which he warned Sánchez minutes before publishing the video- proposes forming a “unique” candidacy for the elections with Más Madrid, and this is what he has offered to the match. In this sense, the regional leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has been open to dialogue and has “welcomed Pablo to the Community of Madrid. We were waiting for Unidas Podemos to activate so we could see who their candidate was and tell him I have written as soon as I heard the news and we have agreed to talk,” he declared in the corridors of the regional Chamber.
Iglesias frames his decision, which will consult those registered in Podemos, in the “need” for Madrid to have a Government of Iglesias because “on May 4 we must prevent these criminals” and has assured that “it will be an honor to occupy the position in which I can now be more useful, as a Madrilenian and as an anti-fascist”.
The vice president will materialize his decision no later than April 17, when the campaign for the regional elections begins. Until then, he has assured that he will dedicate his last efforts to moving forward with the housing law, stuck before the Podemos proposal to control prices, and some “key” issues of the Government agreement.
Regarding the changes in Podemos, Iglesias has confirmed his step aside by confirming that the next candidate of the purple formation for the general elections will be Yolanda Díaz.
Ayuso: “Spain owes me one: we have removed Pablo Iglesias from Moncloa”
Díaz Ayuso has reacted to Iglesias’ announcement with a new version of the slogan he wrote on Twitter when announcing the electoral advance (‘socialism or freedom’) and has warned the people of Madrid of the communist proposal that is being raised in a tweet adapted to the new information.
COMMUNISM OR FREEDOM.
May 4th.
— Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso)
In a subsequent press conference, Díaz Ayuso assured Aguado that “Spain owes me one: we have removed Pablo Iglesias from Moncloa”.
The reaction of Ignacio Aguado, vice president of the Community of Madrid and directly affected by the advance, has not been long in coming either. On the same social network, he has indicated that “the Community of Madrid was going well. It worked. There was a government agreement that was being fulfilled and that it was going to be fulfilled until the end” and he has reproached the president for the decision: “Isabel, your The whim of dynamiting everything will only bring tension, confrontation and paralysis. The one you have messed up”.
there will be elections
The elections continue. After the doubts about these days due to the conflict of deadlines between the announcement of Díaz Ayuso and the registration of the motions of censure, the Board of the Permanent Deputation of the Assembly of Madrid has announced that it will not appeal the dismissal of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) of the precautionary measure against the call for early elections.
The Eighth Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice yesterday dismissed the precautionary measure of suspension requested by the lawyers of the Madrid Assembly regarding Decree 15/2021, of March 10, of the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for the dissolution of the Assembly and the calling of elections for May 4.
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