"Who was going to say it?" "A year ago they tell you that Iglesias would be vice president ...?" .... They were the comments that toured the Ernest Lluch room of the Ministry of Health . The unbelievers then and those who have shed tears when they see the ministers of the United We can promise loyalty to the King would still digest the moment: Carmen Calvo handed over the portfolio of vice president of social rights to Pablo Iglesias. "Yes you can!" Shouted from the armchairs of the lounge members of Unidos Podemos and social groups invited by this party. Before them, and before figures like Antonio Garamendi, president of the CEOE, Iglesias promised that the movements will guide his action as vice president.

"To the social movements, to the tenants' union, to the workers, to civil society, thank you for defending social justice in the last decade. You will be the reference for this trip. Do not stop pressing us, criticize us. That will mean that we can do things better ", has been the word committed by Iglesias in what will be its headquarters: the Ministry of Health, which will share with Salvador Illa, Minister of Health, and Alberto Garzón, Minister of Consumer Affairs.

Although Pedro Sánchez, with the composition and structure of Government, has blurred and diluted the muscle of United We can on the Government Council, Iglesias has recalled the recent words of the President of the Government to reaffirm that "the next Government will have many voices but single word". Of the 23 armchairs, five are purple. Given this proportion, although it claims its own voice, Iglesias assumes the role of minority partner, and promises "companionship and teamwork."

His words were preceded by a new veiled message towards his partner by the PSOE, this time in the mouth of Vice President Carmen Calvo, who has been the protagonist of the transfer of portfolio with Iglesias. "We are going to defend the general interests of the country, the common good over the small things of each one of us."

The new second vice president, who assumes the competences in social rights and the 2030 agenda, as he has been doing in recent months, presents himself as a champion of "democratic constitutionalism", a strategy used to fight the right in the dispute over the constitutionalist concept. Iglesias defines it, now as vice president, as the work to "guarantee, shield and expand social rights, that Spain is an international reference in terms of the UN's sustainable development goals".

Iglesias, like Alberto Garzón, has carried a pin on his lapel that was a red triangle. It is an antifascist symbol, a gesture in remembrance of the communist and socialist prisoners who in the Nazi death camps were marked with a red cloth triangle. As the PCE deepens, it is a tribute to the European anti-fascist resistance "since in the Nazi extermination camps the prisoners of the communist and socialist left were marked with a red cloth triangle."

At the event, when the transfer of portfolios of three ministers coincided, he has assembled the PSOE-PSC, Podemos and IU teams on the same stage. Miquel Iceta, Eva Navarro, Manuel Cruz -PSC-, Pablo Echenique, Juan Carlos Monedero, Alberto Rodríguez, Ione Belarra -We can-, Antonio Garamendi (CEOE) or Unai Sordo (CCOO) were among the attendees.

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