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The Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, is emerging as the new head of Health, replacing Salvador Illa, when he leaves his post in the coming weeks to lead the PSC's candidacy in the Catalan elections on February 14, after the passage behind Miquel Iceta.

This is the plan that the Government is studying, according to socialist sources, to give continuity to the management of Illa at the head of Health these months, since Darias has participated with him in the last meetings of

the Interterritorial Council

of

the National Health

System (CISNS ) and is fully involved in the vaccination process that has already started.

In addition, this movement would leave the Territorial Policy portfolio free so that, in the event that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, finally decides, Iceta can occupy it, who has previously sounded for this position.

The change at the head of the candidacy for the Catalans of Iceta for which he is his 'number two' in the PSC, as secretary of Organization, will be officially activated this afternoon, after the until now candidate explains to the party leadership your decision and the new bet is made official.

And after that, the process will begin to relieve Illa at the head of the Ministry, "in the coming weeks," according to socialist sources.

Although they avoid giving dates, they remember that in mid-January the Catalan pre-campaign, set for February 14, will be fully operational.

The minister said this Tuesday, in an interview on TVE, that the candidate for the Catalans was going to be Iceta, although he avoided confirming if he had been offered the position, when asked about the rumor that had been circulating for months that it would finally be he and not the leader of the PSC the head of list on February 14.

"I cannot confirm you, what I am telling you is that the candidate that we are going to present in elections that need a change will be Miquel Iceta, who is the person who is in the best conditions to champion this change," Illa said. .

All this, despite the fact that Iceta already communicated to Sánchez in mid-November his decision to renounce the candidacy of the Catalans;

a decision in which the president only made his hard core in Ferraz participate.

When the change occurs, Illa will leave the Ministry of Health after twelve months in office, of which she has spent ten managing the Government's strategy in the fight against the coronavirus;

a task that has meant an absolute implication, especially during the first wave of the pandemic, in which he was the main delegated competent authority, after Sánchez.

Already in summer, when the de-escalation of the first state of alarm ended and the Government launched the co-governance strategy with the autonomous communities, the management of the pandemic was transferred mainly to the Interterritorial Council, in which Minister Darias has participated since autumn, in his capacity as head of Territorial Policy.

Therefore, Sánchez considers the possibility of her being the one to replace Illa in Health, understanding that it would be the natural replacement to guarantee that the strategy to fight the pandemic and, above all, the vaccination process is continued, Darias is aware of by participating in the Interritorial Council.

Robles believes that Illa will be "a magnificent" candidate

Defense Minister Margarita Robles believes that Salvador Illa will be a "magnificent" candidate for the PSC in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia on February 14 and has highlighted his "humanity" in managing the pandemic.

"Illa is a magnificent candidate and has been a magnificent Minister of Health," Robles said in statements to Europa Press, acknowledging his joy at the appointment of his partner in government to head the list of Catalan socialists next February.

The Defense Minister recalled that she lived very close to the Health Minister during the first wave of the pandemic, when both were delegated authority, and highlights from him the "humanity" with which he managed the coronavirus crisis.

"In addition to the effective management that he has had, he is a man from whom I have learned through his profound humanity," he stressed, insisting that, beyond the "mistakes" that everyone could have made, the still minister "has suffered with all those who have suffered "and will be a" magnificent candidate ".

For his part, the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has summoned the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to immediately appoint a new Minister of Health.

"We need someone focused only on fighting the third wave of the pandemic. The Government must be responsible," he stressed

Through a message on his Twitter account, the deputy for Madrid, has indicated that, from his point of view, Illa has been "a good Minister of Health in a very tough year", and has not entered to assess his election as a candidate for the February 14 elections.

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