Feijóo criticizes that Sánchez does not take advantage of the government crisis to replace Marlaska and Irene Montero

“What is newsworthy is not that interim ministries have been covered since last year, but that the president has not carried out his work of coordinating the Government,” he assured in statements to the media after an information event with the PP candidate in Castilla- La Mancha, Paco Núñez, and where he has accused Sánchez of “putting democracy at risk”.

For Feijóo, “the important thing is not that [Sánchez] fill the vacancies” caused by the departures of Reyes Maroto and Carolina Darias to lead the electoral lists of the PSOE in Madrid and Las Palmas on May 28, respectively, “but the ministers who remain in the Government”. “The most surprising thing is that both the minister of the legal bungling of the Yes is yes like the one from Valla de Melilla continue in the Government. This proves that the president has no margin to make the remodeling that a president with authority would do.

The leader of the PP has also taken the opportunity to “thank the services provided to the ministers and welcome the new ministers.” Feijóo knows the new Minister of Health well, the Galician José Manuel Miñones, who has served as a Government delegate in Galicia while the right-wing leader was president of the Xunta. “He comes from Galicia”, Feijóo said, “I wish him all the best”, he added, to settle that “it probably responds to an organic decision of the party, which is to look for a candidate that it seems that it does not have”.

The arrival of Héctor Gómez to Industry has helped Feijóo to despise the role of the department. “Once he has been dismissed as spokesman in Congress, it seems that it is a consolation prize to be a minister in the last months of the legislature”, he pointed out, to insist: “The surprising thing is that the Government and its president have not been able to bring a new direction to politics and confirm that the most worn-out ministries remain to reach the end of the legislature as best they can”.

The government defends the changes

“They are two magnificent people, with management experience.” With these words, the First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, has described the new ministers, who in statements to the media this Monday has assured that with the incorporation of both, the Executive will follow “a line of work” like the one that is leading up to now. “They are going to allow us to make the right decisions and develop the policies that our country needs at this time,” she said.

In addition to Calviño, the Executive has reacted so far, among others, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón. Marlaska has appreciated that both Miñones and Gómez “have proven careers”: “Without a doubt they will bring all this knowledge to the Council of Ministers and their respective departments”, he added.

For his part, Alberto Garzón released his assessment early this Monday, shortly after the appointments were made known. “I have few references, but I am sure that they will do a great job”, he stated in an interview on the program Las Mañanas, from rne. The also federal coordinator of IU has highlighted that this renewal was “a procedure” that had to be done and added: “I am convinced that [Miñones y Gómez] They are designed to cover this function that will reach at least the general elections ”.

“The defense of public health and the policies to reindustrialize Spain will be in the best hands.” This is how the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, welcomed her two new colleagues. In a message on her official Twitter profile, the also deputy secretary general of the PSOE also thanked the outgoing ministers, Reyes Maroto and Carolina Darias, for their work, “two great hard-working and fighting women.”

The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría, has also spoken along these lines, congratulating Héctor Gómez and José Manuel Miñones to the cabinet in a Twitter message and highlighting their “great technical and political capacity”. “A hug to Reyes Maroto and Carolina Darias, who will be fantastic mayors”, she has concluded.

For her part, the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has set the new heads of Health and Industry as “examples of good work, dialogue and commitment” and has thanked her former colleagues for their work. “It has been a privilege working together. We will continue to do it with you in the municipalities of Madrid and Las Palmas ”, she has expressed, addressing them.

Farewell to Darias and Maroto

“Five years ago I assumed with enthusiasm and responsibility the honor of working for the Spanish in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism,” the PSOE candidate for Madrid Mayor, Reyes Maroto, wrote on Twitter. “Thank you, President, for your trust and my colleagues in the Government for their support in these difficult years,” he said, while welcoming Héctor Gómez: “He will continue with an excellent job in a ministry that is crucial for prosperity from Spain”.

“Thank you President for the confidence to be part of the Government of Spain. It has been an honor ”, the former Minister of Health Carolina Darias and PSOE candidate for Mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has also said on social networks.