Sánchez doubts whether to keep Yolanda Díaz at work when assuming the second vice presidency
The work portfolio becomes the obstacle for the relief plan formulated by Pablo Iglesias before his departure from the Government. Pedro Sánchez has doubts that Yolanda Díaz maintains the Employment competencies as second vice president. The reason is twofold: on the one hand, Sánchez has not been satisfied with the fact that Iglesias took the changes in the Government for granted - a prerogative that corresponds to the president - and, on the other, the problems in the economic area of the Executive by having a vice president of that branch above Nadia Calviño. However, the still vice president considers that the relief will go well and, in general terms, as he has proposed after having spoken with Sánchez, as he has assured elDiario.es
Pablo Iglesias leaves the Government to be a candidate in Madrid and proposes Yolanda Díaz as his successor
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Iglesias appointed Díaz as a replacement in the second vice presidency, but at United We can assume that he would retain his current ministry, in which he has reached important agreements within the social dialogue and that is his specialty as a labor lawyer. Sánchez was caught by the announcement of the United We Can leader at a bilateral summit with Emmanuel Macron and gave a first response to the government crisis that is coming over him due to the departure of Iglesias. The president assured that he has "the best of opinions" of Díaz and confirmed that the second vice presidency corresponds to United We Can assuming that he accepted the proposals for changes that Iglesias had formulated. "There will be no problem," said Sánchez about the relief he intends to undertake "in the next few days" with "continuity."
However, once in Madrid, Sánchez has matured the situation and his approach was for Díaz to assume the second vice presidency, but without the employment powers, according to socialist sources. The formal problem that they find in Moncloa is that Díaz maintains the portfolio of an economic area and is in the ranks above Nadia Calviño, the head of the economic area and third vice president. Calviño is the president of the Government's Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs, so if Díaz assumes the vice-presidency and maintains Work, it would be the case that she would be below Calviño, despite the official organization chart.
Sánchez has also not been satisfied with the fact that Iglesias has taken the changes in the government for granted, which is the exclusive prerogative of the president, according to those same sources.
Asked about the possibility that Sánchez does not want Díaz as second vice president and Minister of Labor, Iglesias assures that the change will take place in a "reasonable" way and rejects that Díaz will be left without employment skills. What he does acknowledge is that there will be minimal changes in the coalition's structure.
Sánchez referred this Tuesday to the changes that Iglesias raises before his departure and assured that he "complies with the coalition agreements." The rules of coexistence that sealed PSOE and United We Can foresees the situation of a hypothetical "restructuring" in the Government throughout the legislature: "The number of areas managed by the PSOE and by Unidas Podemos will be maintained and their relative weight in the whole of the Government in the terms agreed at the beginning of the coalition ". In the event that the changes are "substantial", the "essential issues" will be reviewed, according to the text.
