Bolaños, Sánchez’s new strong man, stated that “Spaniards have to get used to 15% unemployment”

The sorpasso of Felix Bolaños a Carmen Calvo as Minister of the Presidency it has been one of the most surprising changes. The ‘plumber’ of Franco’s exhumation and pardons stated last March 2020 that Spaniards must get used to living with an unemployment rate of 15%.

On March 10, 2020, at a private meal at the Palace hotel in Madrid of the Circle of Confidence of the New Economy forum, Félix Bolaños spoke about the unemployment rate of our country in those terms, a few days before Spain declared the State Alarm. All this while the Government boasted of having reduced the ‘very wide’ unemployment rate that Rajoy had left.

These statements also oppose the wonderful Spain 2050 that Sánchez imagines, which includes going from a current unemployment rate of around 16% -in the first quarter of 2021- to another of 12% in 2030; 10% in 2040 and 7% in 2050.

Bolaños -one of the vital pieces in the negotiation of the General State Budgets-, will be the new Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, replacing the first vice president of the Government, Carmen Calvo. In this way, the one who was the ‘brain’ of the exhumation of the remains of Francisco Franco of the Valley of the Fallen and one of the main plumbers in the motivation of the pardon to the coup plotters of 1-O, he sees his deep dispatch work being reciprocated.

In addition, Bolaños, who already had an active participation in the campaign of the last regional elections to the Community of Madrid, he has been one of the people closest to Pedro Sánchez in the Executive, in addition to working hand in hand with the Chief of Staff of Pedro Sánchez, the ‘almighty’ Ivan Redondo, who now leaves the Executive in a departure of great importance – he was one of the leaders of the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy – and is replaced by the socialist Oscar Lopez.