For the first time, Moncloa prevents Yolanda Díaz from appearing after the Council of Ministers

After the extraordinary Council held at the limit of the beginning of the electoral campaign of 28-M, the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, and the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, appeared to present the anti-drought measures approved at the government meeting.

However, Díaz did not do so despite the fact that the Labor proposal to regulate health and safety conditions in relation to heat waves was approved in the decree. This is the modification of the royal decree that will force companies to provide measures against high temperatures, including the prohibition of carrying out “certain tasks during the hours of the day in which adverse weather phenomena occur that require it.”

[Pedro Sánchez will continue to approve electoral measures until 28-M without consulting Podemos]

Government sources explain that the minister did not expressly request to appear and that is why Moncloa did not need to deny it, simply no one proposed it because the Presidency did not consider it necessary for Yolanda Díaz to explain the measure. On multiple occasions, different members of the Government have appeared to report on specific proposals included in omnibus decrees such as this one.

It was Luis Planas who informed the questions about the reform of the labor risk law, despite being outside his powers.

Something similar has happened in recent months with ministers Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, who have repeatedly been prevented from appearing at these press conferences to explain initiatives that they brought to the Council and which were approved.

parity law

The most striking case was that of the draft parity law that was presented by the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, on March 7 in the press room of the Council of Ministers, despite referring to equality policies and despite the fact that the text It was prepared by the Presidency.

But until now it had never happened with Yolanda Díaz who, in fact, appeared just a month ago, on April 11, to explain the Comprehensive Law for the Promotion of the Social Economy, the draft of which was approved that day. That occasion is the last in which a minister of those proposed by United We Can intervenes in that press conference after the Council of Ministers.

This situation occurs in a context in which the coalition government has largely ceased to function as such and the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, makes proposals in PSOE electoral acts without consulting Podemos and presenting it directly at meetings of the Minister council.

On Wednesday the ministers of Podemos learned at the same time as the press about the call for the Council of Ministers this Thursday. And in the purple party there is a certain feeling that they are systematically ignored by the socialist part of the Government.

Podemos, through Ione Belarra, has criticized the measures approved against the drought, for understanding that they are insufficient. In fact, the Ministry of Social Rights made proposals on what it calls the “climate shield” but they were not attended to by Moncloa. These proposals, which Moncloa ignored, refer to protection for vulnerable people.