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Pablo Iglesias finalizes his days as second vice president of the Government and minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 before making the leap to the Madrid campaign as a candidate for United We Can.

This Thursday, the

purple

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praised the work of Ione Belarra, who will be in charge of the ministerial portfolio in the coming dates: "I think he will be able to do it much better than me," he stressed.

Iglesias, who has chaired the start of the Consultative Forum on Long-Term Care and Social Services on Thursday, has described his successor at the head of the Ministry as "brave, committed and brilliant", and has said that he hopes that the department "will continue to be a reference in social policies ".

Regarding the 2030 Agenda, he wanted it to be able to transform its objectives "into something more than a set of good intentions, but into State policies" that allow Spain to be a "benchmark" in terms of sustainable development.

The still vice president, who has admitted that this may be one of his last acts in office, has considered that he is leaving the ministry "in the best hands": on the one hand, in charge of the aforementioned Belarra, who will leave the secretariat of State for the 2030 Agenda (and whose successor remains unannounced) to head the ministry;

on the other, Nacho Álvarez, Secretary of State for Social Rights.

"It has been an honor to work from this position for social rights in this country," said Iglesias, who added that he will continue to do so, as he wishes, from the Government of the Community of Madrid.

"I hope leading it," he added.

A plan that "disorients" those who "doubted"

During the event, the still Minister of Social Rights has praised the shock plan for the agency announced last week, the result of the "social dialogue" carried out in recent months and one of the last major projects in social matters headed by Churches before leaving the Executive.

This plan is part of a series of agreements "that surely disoriented many who doubted the ability of the ministers of United We Can to reach agreements with social organizations," Iglesias has advocated to highlight the work of the portfolios coordinated by members of your party, as in Equality, Labor or Social Rights.

The project, which in the coming years plans to invest around 3,600 million euros, satisfies Iglesias because, among other reasons, it has had "the support of many autonomous governments of different sign", proof of "firmness" and capacity for dialogue .

"The European funds cannot go to the usual ones," Iglesias reproached, "to do the usual."

For this reason, it has admitted that since its formation and from the Executive it will be "vigilant" so that small companies, the self-employed, workers and "those who make an effort to truly innovate" and "those who need it most" are the main beneficiaries of these aids.

Deliver the deputy certificate

The departure of Iglesias from the Government, announced last week, has been accelerated in recent days because the Madrid Electoral Law requires the heads of the list not to be part of the central Executive.

In Unidos Podemos they had planned to make the departure of the future candidate coincide with April 14, in commemoration of the claim of the Second Republic, but what is stipulated by the electoral regulations in the Community of Madrid has precipitated the movement.

In this sense, Iglesias himself delivered his minutes as a deputy on Thursday, after announcing in the Control Session on Wednesday that he would leave his seat even before the vice presidency.

The delivery of the minutes will not be effective until this Friday, in order to vote in the plenary session of the Lower House on the different issues debated throughout the week.

Iglesias must resign as vice president of the Government before next Wednesday, March 31, according to the autonomous electoral legislation.

It is expected that from that moment, and throughout next week, the portfolio transfer with Ione Belarra will be held and that Yolanda Díaz, Minister of Labor, will assume the third vice-presidency.

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