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The second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, revolts after the harsh words of the Minister of Finance and spokesperson for the Executive, María Jesús Montero, who considered his express minimum income proposal fulminated and unauthorized in response to the coronavirus crisis and announced that we will have to wait months for the plan.

In a battle that already seems more political and artificial than a real pulse within the Executive, Podemos refused on Tuesday to accept the words of the spokesperson, in a new unusual episode after the meeting of the coalition Council of Ministers.

Podemos sources assure EL MUNDO that Montero did not act at that point as a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, but rather for the wing of the PSOE and that Iglesias does not consider his plan settled. The Vice President tries to convince the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that it cannot wait for the Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, to take months to implement a vital minimum income.

Podemos parliamentary spokesman Pablo Echenique said he accepted Escrivá's future plan, but insisted that there be a prior bridge measure before: "There are people who have serious problems putting food on the plate today and cannot wait a few months for that this measure can be implemented. "

The minister spokesman had previously assured after the Council of Ministers that Escrivá is the only "competent" and that it is a matter in which "it cannot be improvised", burying that idea of ​​Iglesias to immediately launch a minimum bridge income until there is another definitive. "No comment," said official sources of the Vice President of Social Affairs on the words of the minister.

Sánchez does not want to debate, but he does want to talk

Both the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, and Iglesias, still openly defend in the Council of Ministers the implementation of this plan, but Sánchez no longer wants to continue debating it, although he is willing to continue discussing it bilaterally with the leader of Podemos. , as usually happens with the thorniest matters.

Montero was devastating at the press conference and hinted that Sánchez has already settled that Iglesias must wait for Escrivá and coordinate with him, leaving "improvisations" behind.

"What is being done is speeding up these works by Minister Escrivá, who I insist is the competent one, in coordination with the Vice-Presidency for Social Affairs, and that is the path that the Government has decided to take. Let's hope that in a few months we will be able to give birth this new provision of Social Security, "said the minister spokesman without the slightest wink to Iglesias.

On the contrary, he said that "they are not measures that can be improvised or designed from one moment to the next because they are benefits that are here to stay."

Iglesias has turned into one of his great internal battles in the Government the immediate implementation of a punctual vital minimum income, but he has not yet presented anything in the mandatory committees of undersecretaries and Economic Affairs.

Pablo Echenique made it clear that the coalition government is not in danger, because "things must be debated" with "loyalty and based on the strength we have».

However, it maintains agitation. From the Twitter profile of Podemos, a video has been published in which Iglesias affirmed that it is "an urgent measure".

On the other hand, regarding the calls of Churches to the presidents of Ibex groups revealed by this newspaper, Montero said that he sees it "logical" to try "to form alliances" for "the economic reconstruction of the country", but he highlighted the role that the CEOE.

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