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The former Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, has assured this Monday that he has

not spoken with the President

of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, since the day he communicated his dismissal, in mid-July and, although He has not clarified the reasons why he was dismissed, he has acknowledged that then, and still now, he accused

"a certain personal weariness",

due to the "pressure" to which he was subjected and the

"tremendous intensity"

of the last years of life Spanish politics.

This has been assured in an interview in La Sexta, collected by Europa Press, in which he has confirmed that he

will continue in his seat as a deputy in Congress

, after a month and a half without making public comments on his departure not only from the Government but also of the leadership of the PSOE.

Although he did not want to detail what were the specific reasons that Sánchez gave him for dispensing with him, he has confirmed that

the decision was adopted exclusively by the chief executive

, stating that as president he has the ability to appoint and remove his ministers, and to "make the compositions that he deems pertinent".

The former minister has also mentioned that he was aware of Sánchez's intention to "re-drive the government's political action" with a remodeling of his government, since he himself was aware of this issue.

However, he

did not want to reveal if Sánchez specified the reasons why he did not fit

in this new stage.

"There are questions that I do not even ask many times," he said, while defending that "all PSOE militants" are at the end of the day available wherever they are told.

"I will be in that attitude", he has guaranteed.

Yes, he has acknowledged, yes, that he had been "of tremendous intensity" for three years, especially "the last period with the entry of the extreme right into Parliament, the coalition government and the pandemic."

"This has had a tremendous effect, that beyond political action, in the private sphere one has also been greatly affected," he said.

Although

he has not wanted to give details of the conversation in which Sánchez informed him of his dismissal

, he has revealed that it was the last they have had so far, and that it took place in person, not by phone.

"This August there have been very important moments in the government's political action, and with whom it has to dispatch is who it is working with," he argued.

Likewise, Ábalos has insisted that he no longer asks why Sánchez considered that he did not fit into the new stage of the Government, and

has wanted to make it clear that although he is no longer a minister or leader of the PSOE, he is still in politics

, because he continues to have his "political commitment", and from there "nobody" casts him.

"I started in the military in '76, when it was illegal. They don't throw me out of there," he warned.

In addition, he has assured that although in his political career he has suffered many disappointments, leaving the Government has not been one of them, because "disappointment comes when you aspire to something you do not achieve", and he

"no longer aspired to anything" because "It had been everything, more than I could imagine

.

"

In any case, he has acknowledged that he has "a certain personal wear and tear", which he still accuses, and that "there are still those who insist on poking at it", but he has denied that his wear has to do with the controversy of their meeting in Barajas with the vice president of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez or the case of the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra.

"Those are not the reasons", has settled.

"I vindicate a little privacy, my personal and private reasons, which have to do with the pressure that one has suffered all this time. The first line in which I was, as party spokesman, as Secretary of Organization, as one of the ministers with a greater political charge, this is also accused on a personal level. There is a tremendous resignation of my private life, and one also aspires to have a little bit of life, "he explained.

On the other hand, when asked about his government experience with United We Can, the former minister

praised his former coalition partners

and assured that his assessment is "positive" and of "great respect."

"I think that in my case there was a respect gained, which was transformed into trust, and I think even affection, and I have noticed that once I have stopped being a minister," he confessed.

Ábalos has closed his return to the media after a month and a half of silence remembering Edith Piaf's song

'Non, Je ne regrette rien'

--No, I do not regret anything, in French--, and has assured that repentance "only leads to melancholy."

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