Podemos revives the purge against IU and the PCE and dismisses Enrique Santiago, defender of Díaz

• Politics Podemos kicks the PCE leader close to Yolanda Díaz out of the Government and replaces him with Lilith Verstrynge

The

continue to have aftershocks.

Although the focus was placed on the PSOE, due to the setback received, the truth is that in the United We Can space those elections, without a good result, also caused wounds that still bleed.

The formation of the

coalition , and the clashes arising from its leadership and the registration of the brand, left

.

The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has decided to dismiss Enrique Santiago, leader of the Communist Party, as Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda. In her place, she has chosen Lilith Verstrynge, Secretary of the Organization of Podemos.

The movement, carried out under the protection of the crisis that the PSOE is experiencing these days, is transcendent and contains

.

Under Santiago's leadership, the PCE had been very favorable to supporting Yolanda Díaz's political project,

.

In fact, Santiago was the only public official of United We Can who attended Diaz's coming-out, in an act in which she asked the leaders of United We Can not attend.

In turn, for example, Díaz intervened in the central act of the celebration of the centenary of the PCE, in which he staged that he would take a step forward to assume political leadership on the left, but he did not attend the Spring Festival of Podemos .

From the first moment he was a

, despite the fact that, as it was found, between the vice president and Podemos there was tension and coldness at times due to the role of the

in this new adventure.

It should be remembered that the second vice president is a member of the PCE, not in Podemos or IU.

Once his dismissal from the Government was public, Santiago re-published some messages on social networks that he published before his dismissal was made official and that he later deleted, in which he made it clear that

: "Belarra has decided a restructuring of his team of which I will no longer be a part.

It so happens that in recent times the one in Santiago is not the only way out of the PCE-IU political space of the Government.

In the Ministry of Equality there were also changes and the until then chief of staff of Irene Montero, Amanda Meyer, was relieved.

Meyer was ranked number two on the list led by Santiago and with which she renewed her mandate as head of the Communist Party at a recently held congress.

Changes, all, that occur in the final stretch of the legislature and after the Andalusian elections, which caused friction between Podemos and IU due to the preparation of the candidacy that was presented.

An appointment, the Andalusian, in which

(IU)

(Más País) to orchestrate an alliance that would leave the 'purples' in the background.

An appointment in which Díaz was involved, and not only in the campaign, but also took sides so that the candidate was the representative of IU Inmaculada Nieto.

IU and the 'commons' are the only clear support with which Díaz starts his Sumar platform.

In this way, with the dismissals undertaken,

of Social Rights and Equality, leaving the PCE and IU without relevance in this first line: two ministers and three secretaries of State: Verstrynge (Agenda 2030);

Nacho Álvarez (Social Rights) and Ángela Rodríguez (Equality and Against Gender Violence).

"By their works you will know them (Gospel Matthew 7, 16)", was the short but farsighted message on social networks that Toni Valero, coordinator of IU in Andalusia, posted.

"We and we to add and multiply to build an alternative in which everyone fits to make Yolanda Díaz president of the government," was the reflection of Carlos Sánchez Mato, responsible for programmatic elaboration of IU.

Messages that convey the discomfort and the open crack with Podemos.

Faced with this scenario, from the Ministry of Social Rights they

of a reorganization of teams to address the end of the legislature.

The appointment of Verstrynge, who is also secretary of the Organization of Podemos, explain ministerial sources, aims to "reinforce the feminist and ecological approach of the Sustainable Development Goals and the international profile of the Ministry."

An official line insisted on by Irene Montero, Minister for Equality, who appeared before the media in Tenerife after the Sectorial Conference on Equality was held.

"I appreciate the work carried out by Enrique Santiago and I celebrate the appointment of Lilith Verstrynge. The changes are due to a reorganization of teams to reinforce the feminist and ecological approach of the Sustainable Development Goals and the international profile of the Ministry."

Santiago is now located as a low deputy in the Congress of Deputies.

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