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Given the speculation about the future of Pablo Iglesias after announcing his abandonment of politics, this week the mystery began to clear.

Thus, it was announced that the former vice president of the government and founder of Podemos will join a position at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) research center of the

Open University of Catalonia (UOC) on September 15

.

A part-time job for which he will earn 8,400 euros in the research project 'Analysis of ideological discourses in social networks.

The case of political communication in network in Spain '.

It had also been considered that Iglesias would join another project linked to Catalonia, in this case related to the media conglomerate of

Jaume Roures, creator of Mediapro.

In the case of the UOC, the role of the Minister of Universities, Manuel Castells, cannot be ignored. Founded in 1994 as a sort of UNED (Distance Education University) at the request of Jordi Pujol "and for purely ideological reasons", according to sources close to the Open University itself, its objective was for Catalan distance students to receive teaching in Catalan . However, it was soon revealed that the profitability of this offering was insufficient to keep it afloat. It was then that the UOC became an institution focused on various 'online' educational programs, with higher fees. In that private center

Castells held the position of Professor of Sociology until he took possession of the portfolio

.

In addition,

Castells's wife, Emma Kiselyova, was the executive director of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change

until the publication of information on the matter by LOC, in May 2020. She was also director of Relations Internationals of the entity between 2001 and 2015, with the rank of executive director. During this same period, her husband became director of the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, a responsibility he would hold until 2012.

It so

happens

that

Castells is one of the four ministers of the United We Can coalition in government

. None of them have been changed in the last government crisis, in which heavyweights came out of the PSOE close to President Pedro Sánchez, such as Jaime Ábalos or Carmen Calvo.

In the case of Castells, the proximity would be more towards the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, than towards Iglesias. However, the future occupation of Irene Montero's partner has rekindled suspicions regarding the relationship between the Minister of Universities and the UOC. At the time, various voices of the UNED denounced the situation of "marginalization" to which it would be subjected by Castells, despite being one of the two university centers directly dependent on him, given that

the Spanish public universities are the responsibility of the different autonomous communities.

In one of them, the Complutense University of Madrid, Iglesias served as interim tenured professor, within the Faculty of Political Sciences.

It was in this center where the birth of Podemos was forged after March 11, 2011. Figures such as

Íñigo Errejón or Juan Carlos Monedero

participated in this embryonic moment, which materialized in 2014 on the occasion of the elections to the European Parliament.

In parallel, the leaders of that first Podemos began an intense media activity through participation in television debate programs or, either through the creation of their own spaces, such as

the program 'La Tuerka' on Tele-K

or their collaboration on the Iranian channel Hispan TV.

In addition to the UOC announcement, Iglesias has recently made the news for his reappearance via telematics at the

opening of the Complutense course 'Political advice to governments and administrations' with the opening speech

.

It was the second time that her new physical appearance, with short hair, could be seen after shedding her identifying ponytail after the poor electoral results of United We Can in the elections to the Madrid Assembly last June, a candidacy that he led.

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