The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, in the Executive of Pedro Sánchez since the PSOE leader arrived at Moncloa in June 2018, has already taken the opportunity to say goodbye this Tuesday. At least, she from the press room of the Council of Ministers, where she has appeared together with Isabel Rodríguez and Margarita Robles to report on the latest approved agreements. Her goodbye, in any case, feeds the idea that the changes in the Government that Sánchez plans to execute will be imminent. The reason is that Maroto will run in the municipal elections on May 28 as a socialist candidate for mayor of Madrid, just as the head of Health, Carolina Darias, will run for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
“They are going to allow me to say goodbye to all of you at this press conference, it will probably be my last press conference as Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism,” said Maroto, after the government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, highlighted your “impeccable work” in this portfolio. “These have been difficult years in which we have had to manage the impacts of two crises, the pandemic and now the war, but they have also been exciting years because we have been able to develop a State industrial policy for the first time,” said Maroto herself. .
After describing as “a historic day” the agreement signed this Monday for the adjudication of the land occupied by Nissan in the Barcelona Free Trade Zone -considering “the biggest industrial crisis that we have had to manage from the Government”-, Maroto He has also highlighted the importance of the act in which this Friday the first stone of the Volkswagen gigafactory in Sagunto will be laid, which will be accompanied by King Felipe VI and which will also be attended by Pedro Sánchez. “This government has prioritized industrial policy”, stressed the minister, and she has urged that “without a doubt we feel proud of the achievements”.
The changes in the Executive are imminent, but Maroto recalled that only Sánchez knows when they will be carried out. “It is the power of the president to determine when Minister Darias and I leave the Government, and that corresponds to him and only him,” she has alleged. He has taken it for granted, in any case, that the changes will be limited to the departure of Maroto and Darias.
After the event scheduled in Sagunto this Friday, Sánchez will lead the meeting of the PSOE electoral committee in Ferraz on Saturday. Sunday does not have any forecast on the agenda, at least for now. And next Monday the president will meet the Council of Ministers again, in their regular weekly appointment, brought forward on this occasion because on Tuesday the debate on the motion of censure promoted by Vox will start in Congress, which will be voted on Wednesday. The international agenda will take over the rest of Sánchez’s week, first with the European Council meeting in Brussels and then with the Ibero-American summit to be held in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
