The PP sees in the appointment of María Jesús Montero as first vice president and in that of Carlos Body as the new Minister of Economy, replacing Nadia Calviño “a lost opportunity” to reduce the Government.
Sources from the main opposition party point out that after the remodeling announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, there are “the same number of members, the same number of payrolls, cars, advisors…”
In the opinion of these sources that the number 2 of the PSOE, in allusion to the fact that Montero is also the deputy general secretary of the socialists, is the number 2 of the Government while the spokesperson for the Executive, Pilar Alegría, is also the spokesperson for Ferraz ” It is the demonstration” that Sánchez wants “a trench government and more concerned about clashing with the PP than about dignifying public management.”
Likewise, they have added that Montero’s first vice presidency is “symbolic” since “the true first vice president, although he does not sit in the Council of Ministers, controls it from Switzerland and monitors it from Brussels”, in reference to the former president of the Generalitat. Carles Puigdemont, on whose votes the stability of the Executive depends.
