Sánchez shields his ‘economic ministers’ despite the fact that Spain recorded the largest drop in GDP in Europe

radical turn of Pedro Sanchez in his management at the head of the Executive. The changes made this Saturday within the socialist ministerial positions have left out personalities from the hard core of the Government such as Carmen Calvo O Jose Luis Ábalos. However, Sánchez has kept all the portfolios of his ‘economic ministers’ intact, despite the fact that our country has been characterized by the disastrous management of the pandemic, being Spain the country that has recorded the largest drop in GDP in all of Europe.

Collapses in the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), mismanagement of the European Funds, lack of direct aid, endless negotiations for extensions of the FOR HIM… A list of innumerable pending tasks have not made the executive leader consider making any changes in ministries such as Finance, portfolio of Maria Jesus Montero, Social Security, Ministry of Jose Luis Escrivá o Commerce and Tourism, whose owner is Reyes Maroto.

Escrivá he has been one of the ministers that has recently been in the fore. Its pension reform requires that baby boomers choose between extending their working life or receiving less, which translates into a reduction of between 7,000 and 14,000 million in the item allocated to these benefits. Another of the great feats of the Minister of Social Security has been the Minimum Living Income (IMV).

The Government sold in May 2020, when it presented the Minimum Vital Income as the great proposal of the coalition of PSOE Y We can to end poverty in Spain, that the measure would benefit 850,000 households and 2.3 million people. One year after it was launched, the reality is very different: this initiative has only reached 350,000 households.

Maria Jesus Montero, head of the Treasury, has also done his thing. The rise in taxes or the lack of direct aid for companies have been some of them. Not to mention that the deficit of the central administration during the pandemic far exceeded that registered during the 2008 crisis. The minister has been involved in the chaos of the presidency of the QUIET, proposing to lower the conditions for the rescue of companies such as Abengoa or Duro Felguera.

Calviño wins the pulse of Yolanda Díaz

The clear winner of this dance of ministers has been Nadia Calviño. In the confrontations between her and the head of Labor, Pedro Sánchez has had no problem in taking a position against the proposals of Yolanda Diaz. However, his last check on the Minister of Labor has been definitive: Calvin will be the new first vice president in the heat of battle for one of the star proposals of Podemos, the Minimum Interprofessional Salary.

And not only with him SMI. The labour reform It showed the strong internal disagreements between the members of the coalition executive, which were reflected in the devastating gaze and the sigh of resignation of the now first vice president. Calviño has thrown several darts at his colleague in the Council of Ministers, at the time when negotiations with social agents began to repeal the labour reform which approved the PP in 2012 and the Workers’ Statute so that sectoral agreements have a leading role over company agreements, among other issues. Calviño has always opposed a total repeal and prefers to “look to the future” rather than the past.

The ERTEs were also the subject of discussion between the two ministers: last March, after the departure of Pablo Iglesias from the purple formation, both ministers were involved in the formula of the Records of Temporary Employment Regulation (ERTE), since Calviño asked for greater flexibility to avoid the temporality to which Yolanda Díaz was opposed.