The Spanish Government took office this Tuesday. The 22 ministers promised their respective positions before King Felipe VI after Pedro Sánchez informed the monarch this Monday of the composition of its Executive.
This is a Government made up of twelve women, four of whom hold the four vice-presidencies: Nadia Calviño, Minister of Economy; Yolanda Díaz, Minister of Labor; Teresa Ribera, Minister of Ecological Transition and María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance.
The Executive has nine new faces and a super ministerFélix Bolaños, who accumulate two of the most important folders of the Executive: the Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministry of Justice.
Bolaños, the first to take office, is one of the Government figures who increases his power in this Executive, by incorporating the Justice portfolio to the responsibilities he already had in the previous Executive. María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance, is another minister who is reinforced in this Government, by occupying the fourth vice presidency.
This is the Second coalition government in the history of Spain. and among the ministers who take office for the first time are four from Sumar, who hold the portfolios of Culture (Ernest Urtasun), Health (Mónica García), Social Rights (Pablo Bustinduy) and Children and Youth (Sira Rego). These four come together Yolanda Diazparty leader, who maintains the Ministry of Labor and the second vice presidency. The party thus manages to maintain the five positions that Podemos had in the previous Executive.
After assuming their positions, the new ministers will meet this Wednesday in the first Council of Ministers of the new legislature.
Absence of power
oh Canparty that was part of the coalition of the previous legislature, was left out of the Government. The relationship within the leftist Sumar alliance was always tense and the exclusion of Podemos ministers ended up being confirmed.
The party insisted until the end on the name of Irene Montero, former Minister of Equality, a profile that neither Yolanda Díaz nor Pedro Sánchez supported. This weekend, Yolanda Díaz ended up offering the Ministry of Social Rights to Nacho Álvarez, a prominent member of Podemos and former Secretary of State in the same area, but both the party and he himself rejected the offer. Podemos once again insisted on the name of Irene Montero and Yolanda Díaz once again refused.
TO Equality folder It was, in fact, one of the ones that aroused the most curiosity. The choice turned out to be Ana Redondosocialist deputy for Castilla y León, doctor in Law and little known within the feminist movement.
Source: TSF
