The news is not the ministers who leave, but those who stay. It is the reaction of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to the changes in the Government introduced this morning by Pedro Sánchez, to replace the Ministers of Health, Carolina Darias, who will be a candidate for the presidency of the Canary Islands Government; and the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, who is running for mayor of Madrid on the PSOE lists.
A march announced months ago that is what the remodeling of the Government has ended up with, which makes the changes irrelevant, in the opinion of the president of the PP, for whom what is remarkable are the ministers who remain, “the most worn out”, those who “a president with authority would change.” The president of the PP refers to the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, or as Feijóo prefers to say, “the minister of the law of yes is yes and the minister of the fence of Melilla “.
After an informative breakfast in which Feijóo presented his candidate for the government of Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Núñez, the president of the PP wanted to show off his political education and dismissed the ministers who leave their portfolios: “The courteous does not take away the brave and the first thing that touches me is to thank the Minister of Health and the Minister of Industry for their services, and to welcome the two new ministers”.
But from then on everything was criticized: “What is newsworthy is not that they cover some interim ministries since last year, but that the president has not carried out his work of coordinating and directing the Government. The important thing is not that the president covers the vacancies that he himself had announced last year, what is newsworthy are those who remain in the government”.
For Feijóo “the most surprising thing is that the minister of the legal botch of the yes law is yes and the minister of the fence of Melilla are still in the Government.” In his opinion, that is “a surprise for everyone”, especially since “it proves that the president cannot and does not have the margin to carry out the remodeling of the Government that a president with authority would do”.
Regarding the new ministers, Feijóo greeted the new Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones, “who comes from Galicia” and whom he wished the best, although he believes that his appointment surely responds to an “organic decision” of the PSOE, to “look for a candidate to the presidency of the Xunta that it seems that it does not have”.
As for the new Minister of Industry, Héctor Gómez, previously the spokesperson for the PSOE in Congress, replaced a few months ago by Patxi López, the president of the PP considers that once his parliamentary work ceases, “it seems that it is a consolation prize to be minister in the last months of the legislature”.
However, for Feijóo what is relevant is that “it is surprising that the Government and its president have not been able to chart a new course for politics” and they confirm that the most worn-out ministers remain in the Government because Sánchez wants to “reach the end of the legislature as it can”, even with an “exhausted and stammering” government, which further deepens his belief that Spain “is heading for a political change in Spain, after the general elections”.
