Irene Montero has dismissed Amanda Meyer as her Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Equality.

The dismissal is a consequence of the deterioration of relations between the two after the confrontation and tension that occurred between Podemos and Izquierda Unida during the construction of the joint candidacy in Andalusia.

That pulse ended up being lost by Podemos thanks to the decisive support that Yolanda Díaz gave IU so that Inma Nieto was the candidate for the Board.

The management of those negotiations deteriorated relations between Montero, number two of Podemos, and Meyer, who is a member of IU and the PCE.

Sources from the Ministry of Equality have confirmed the change announced by La Vanguardia and have framed it within "normality".

"This is a change of stage in terms of the cabinet leadership, after the approval of the Sexual Freedom Law in Congress, for this last year and a half of the legislature," these sources say.

Podemos and IU have been reluctant since the process of forming a joint candidacy in Andalusia turned out to be a fiasco.

Podemos was left off the lists after a technical error that blamed IU when registering the brand a few minutes before the deadline expired.

Despite the fact that the ruling could be resolved thanks to the inclusion of the purples as independents, the friction within the coalition has not diminished since then and the echoes already reach the governmental structure of United We Can.

The internal war is also conditioned by the pulse of the parties that make up the purple conglomerate before the future project that the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, plans to lead, and about which hardly any details are known.

Despite the fact that Podemos claims an essential role in Díaz's plans, the also Minister of Labor has advocated mainstreaming her platform and transcending political brands, an idea that does not convince the party led by Ione Belarra.

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