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The leader of Podemos and vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, has once again sneaked into an event organized by the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

.

The

purple

leader

has managed to be a speaker at the

Ambassadors Conference

to be held next Monday and Tuesday at

Casa América

to speak to the diplomatic corps about the 2030 agenda.

The conference will be opened by Pedro Sánchez on Monday and closed by King Felipe VI on Tuesday, as planned in the initial call, for Monday and last Tuesday.

However, the immense snowfall that fell on Madrid and the paralysis of the city forced the international appointment to be postponed.

Finally, the Ambassadors Conference will be next Monday, January 18 and Tuesday, January 19.

But it will have an important change in its program: the entry of Pablo Iglesias among the speakers, as advanced by

The Diplomat

and

EL MUNDO was

able to confirm

in sources from the organization of the event.

It is not the first time that Iglesias meddles in Spanish foreign policy, a state policy that was left out of the coalition agreement between the PSOE and United We Can and that is entirely in the hands of the Prime Minister and socialist ministers, headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya.

However, Iglesias signed up, for example, to the Executive's trip to attend the inauguration of the new president of

Bolivia

, which was attended by Felipe VI and González Laya.

During that journey, Iglesias maintained a parallel agenda, with meetings with leaders of the Latin American left and promoted and signed the

Declaration of Peace

, from which the Government distanced itself.

Foreign sources included that agreement in Iglesias' agenda as leader of Podemos, not as vice president of the Government of Spain.

Iglesias has also meddled in Spain's bilateral relationship with Morocco, publicly setting a position in favor of holding a referendum in the Sahara or sending his

number two

in the Ministry of Social Affairs to a meeting with leaders of the Polisario Front.

Calviño and Ribera

Next week's Conference of Ambassadors will also feature the participation of the economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, and the fourth vice president, Teresa Ribera.

Both were already planned in the initial program for January 11 and 12.

Iglesias will participate in the Conference of Ambassadors on Tuesday to present a presentation entitled

Spain facing the challenge of the 2030 agenda

, the same day that the third and fourth vice presidents of the Government will do so.

Sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained to this newspaper that "the program has been modified several times until its final development."

And that the postponement has been used to expand it.

The same sources downplayed the participation of Iglesias and equated it with that of the other two vice presidents, Calviño and Ribera, who also do not have foreign policy powers.

However, Nadia Calviño has a very important role in

Brussels

, as a negotiator of Spanish economic policy.

Like Ribera, as head of the energy transition project and the fight against climate change.

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