Alberto Garzón’s time at the Acento consultancy firm specializing in public affairs has been so fleeting that not even 24 hours have passed since his public announcement since, after the commotion caused, the former Minister of Consumption and former IU coordinator has decided to put end your latest professional adventure as soon as possible.
“Following the misunderstanding that has arisen in the political space, and with the express intention of not harming the organizations to which I have dedicated so much time and energy of my life, I announce my resignation to join as I had planned” the company founded and directed by the former socialist leader José Blanco, Garzón has pointed out on social networks.
“I do not want my personal decision to harm my former militant colleagues, in their necessary mission to achieve the best possible result in future electoral calls. I have always put collective interest before personal interest and I consider that it should remain that way,” affects that letter.
Although he also reveals in his argument a certain weariness and frustration with what he describes as the “inquisitorial left.” “I think that the left has to reflect on how it treats the men and women who dedicate their time, their energy and their lives, in short – the most precious thing we have – to collective projects. I said it when leaving the first line politics, and I think about it more if possible on a day like today: if I have learned anything it is that politics is a crusher of people.
In this way, Garzón declines to assume the Geopolitical Prospective Directorate of the consulting firm, for which he was only pending a favorable report from the Government’s Conflict of Interest Office. It was an incorporation advanced by El Confidencial and that José Blanco himself celebrated yesterday, arguing that it would enhance “diversity and perspective to enrich the service to clients.”
Garzón was Minister of Consumption in the first coalition government of Pedro Sánchez with Unidas Podemos and he moved away from the political front line by not being a candidate for the July 23 elections and announcing in November that he was no longer the federal coordinator of IU, although He did not formally say goodbye until December 1.
The consulting firm for Blanco, led by the socialist leader Antonio Hernando, has had the former leader of the Popular Party in Euskadi and former Minister of Health, Alfonso Alonso, as president since 2020. As soon as the signing was leaked, social networks were filled with criticism of the former leader of Izquierda Unida for understanding that he was benefiting from the revolving doors that he himself had previously criticized.
One of the first known reactions after Garzón’s resignation has been that of the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, who has criticized the situation through interference in your private life. If you are on the left, you will more and more suffer all kinds of hoaxes and slander. And then look for a job in something that has not the slightest relationship with what you have done.”
