Pablo Iglesias has made a decision: he abandons his portfolio of second vice president in the Executive to present himself as a candidate for the Community of Madrid, announces it in a video via Telegram to his militancy and orders that his substitute as number three of the Government be the current minister Yolanda Díaz, who in turn will be the candidate of United We Can in the next general elections to contest the position of Pedro Sánchez himself, and that his until now Secretary of State, Ione Belarra, becomes the Ministry of Social Affairs.

All of this at once and in the absence of the president.

They assure in La Moncloa that Pedro Sánchez has already been informed of the chain of 'decisions' of Iglesias.

It remains to be seen whether, beyond the resignation of his hitherto second vice president, he accepts the rest of the provisions that, in reality, constitute an interference in the exclusive powers of the Prime Minister and even an anticipation of an open struggle for power.

In the socialist ranks, and even in part of the Government, the news has fallen like an unexpected bomb.

"Half relief, half stupor," say the sources consulted who prefer to remain anonymous and prudent while waiting for Pedro Sánchez to speak.

There were many in the PSOE who considered unsustainable the continuous frictions that Iglesias caused within the Council of Ministers, tensions that have even affected nuclear issues of the State model and that transferred to the citizens a feeling of internal competition, instability and insecurity difficult to manage in times already troubled by the pandemic.

However, no one expected a blow to the board of the Government itself at this time and with these derivatives.

That the leader of Podemos decides to leave the Executive to run as a candidate for the Community of Madrid offering a pact to the formation of his former comrade in the ranks, Íñigo Errejón, is a decision that concerns only him, although in the PSOE they believe that the appropriate thing is to consult it, agree on it and plan it with the Prime Minister.

Nobody at the moment realizes that it has been like that.

More doubts still raises the fact that Iglesias himself is the one who announces a crisis of the Executive of such caliber in the absence of Pedro Sánchez and even anticipates the change of portfolios that this will cause in the Council of Ministers.

One thing is, they warn from the PSOE, that Podemos by virtue of the Government pact uses its "quota of power or presence" and another, quite different, that it decides the distribution itself.

And even more astonishment has generated that his decision has been accompanied by the announcement that it will be the current Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who will dispute, when the time comes, the presidency of the Government to Sánchez.

Iglesias even assures in his speech, in which he appropriates a good part of the decisions taken by the Executive during his first year of life and sets himself up as its true "progressive" and "transformative" driving force, that Díaz will be the next president.

Until now, the second vice president admits in the video in which he gives an account of his decisions, that the step taken is the result of the "opportunity" that has been presented to him after the call for elections by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

In short, the jump has been supervened driven by the imminent prospect of the polls.

A leap that will need, however, from the confluence with Más Madrid, a formation that in the community has more strength than Podemos and that many already interpret as a desperate movement to try to recover, in open competition with the PSOE, the left-wing electorate .

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