Moncloa hides Podemos: only two interventions after 29 Councils of Ministers in 2023
The press room of La Moncloa grants an important exhibition window. Of media focus. It is attended by the ministers who carry matters of importance or importance to the Cabinet meeting, in order to give a public account of them.. The Executive is formed, as it is known, by a coalition of the PSOE and United We Can. But the distribution in these appearances is clearly favorable to the Socialists: of 29 press conferences held in 2023, only six times there was a representative of Unidas Podemos, and only twice was a minister of Podemos.
This Tuesday, the Ministry of Social Rights has brought to the Council of Ministers a reform of Royal Decree 1051/2013, which complies with the Government's commitment to improve the economic benefits of the dependency system and that what it intends is to reverse the cuts it suffered the system in 2012.
From the department directed by Ione Belarra, Minister and General Secretary of Podemos, they contacted the Secretary of State for Communication through the usual procedure -which is the one who determines the appearances- to request their presence in the press room. However, again three PSOE ministers will appear before the media this Tuesday: Isabel Rodríguez, who is the spokesperson for the Executive and always has a fixed chair, Pilar Alegría and Diana Morant. These last two, ministers who in recent days have shared an act with Pedro Sánchez.
Of the 29 Councils of Ministers held in 2023, in 23 of them the subsequent press conference was led entirely by socialist ministers. Only on six occasions was there a representative of Unidas Podemos: four appearances by Yolanda Díaz (January 10; February 14; April 11; July 11), and only one by Ione Belarra (January 17) and Irene Montero (February 28).
In the departments of Podemos they made the decision to record videos on social networks to try to gain prominence, even if it was by satellite to the Council of Ministers. They did so with the approval in the second round, definitively by the Government, of the Family Law -which has been stranded due to the electoral call-; with the approval of the State Strategy for the Rights of Children and Adolescents; care permits; or aid to those affected by thalidomide.
From the beginning, the bet in the presidential complex was for Sumar, urging Podemos to integrate into the space of Yolanda Díaz. Sánchez considers that the relationship with his current second vice president will be better now that she is the leader than until now when Podemos was the reference party. Hence, in recent days the socialist candidate has recovered the idea that he will do a tandem with Díaz and the purples have long since been amortized.