Marta Corbal

Updated Saturday, February 3, 2024-01:52

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They married on November 15, 2004. She, dressed in red, swore her love for him forever and he, enraptured in his cream-colored suit,

promised that she would be

Yolanda

forever .

At the Torrente Ballester cultural center in Ferrol, Yolanda Díaz (52) and Juan Andrés Meizoso (51)

were declared companion.

Because no one in the party, nor in its ideological vicinity, has ever referred to the husband of the current second vice president of the Government as such. Nor her as her wife.

Andrés has always been

"Yolanda's companion"

for his relatives and friends. For the press, this man is as tall as he is invisible, a figure in the public events of the Minister of Labor, but

an absolute protagonist in her domestic

and sentimental life. This role has changed recently. As LOC has learned, the Galician technical draftsman

no longer lives with the president of Sumar.

"She is in Madrid and Andrés in Galicia

. She works as a draftsman at Navantia, in Ferrol," sources close to the minister tell this supplement.

"They have distanced themselves, but they remain good friends

, although they have not lived together for a long time due to work and a relationship." While he lives near the shipping company where he is employed, Díaz resides at the ministry with their 11-year-old daughter, Carmeliña. Her current home is literally in the Nuevos Ministerios building where she has her office.

"Now she is the one who takes care of the girl."

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"I live with my daughter, I am super single-parent

," Yolanda Díaz herself revealed to Marc Giró on the TVE program Latexou on January 22. A statement that went unnoticed by those who are unaware of the background of the politician's home life. This is not the case with LOC. When her friends and family were asked about Yolanda's privacy,

Andrés was all over it.

"He has acted as a father and mother,"

Suso Díaz told this supplement last June. The father of the vice president and historical union member of CC.OO in Galicia revealed that her son-in-law took care of the little girl,

"he takes her and picks her up from school

, makes her lunch, dinner... everything." A description that moves away from

single parenthood,

a term not recognized by the RAE,

which designates families with children looked after by a single mother.

"I am a free woman, I do everything myself

. I cook, I iron clothes...", the Galician stressed in her recent interview with Giró. Only half a year has passed since Andrés was described

as the superman of the house

who, far from gender roles and complexes, pampered his family by cooking succulent Galician dishes.

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"He is a charming guy

, he is very attached to the girl, but working now in Galicia it will be more

difficult for him to take care of her,"

indicates a source close to the family, who also highlights the difficulty that it entailed for them to deal with the schedule of the minister. With a capital letter or a small letter,

it was Work that distanced them.

However, in the family area,

Yolanda and Andrés continue to add one more one.

"She works a lot of hours, so they have grown apart.

But they get along great, they are friends

and they continue to behave like a family. There is no bad vibes,

no third parties

. In the end it has been 20 years and it was a couple who

loved each other. very much

, with very good vibes, which has always been liked very well by everyone."

"When we met Andrés we loved him

. He was a nice, tall and handsome man who had been a basketball player for the Hogar de Ferrol," people from his circle reveal. Like Iker Casillas, the draftsman seemed like the perfect son-in-law (also from Real Madrid). A football affiliation that his father-in-law considers

"his only flaw."

This neat image has not changed in the eyes of his intimates. "They are great people, who have always supported each other." Close sources speak of a

"friendly separation"

, although Díaz's press team does not confirm the news.

Minister and mother

On the vice president's Instagram, the last photograph together has the date and year: August 8, 2021.

A meeting with friends on a terrace

. As for their most recent portrait as a couple, it dates back to May 9, 2020. The calculation is simple: more than three years. Although these numbers do not symbolize so much when it comes to a

circumspect and reserved man.

What did seem notable to those around him is the change of residence of Andrés Meizoso, coupled with his continued absence. Together and mixed up, Yolanda and Andrés

have demonstrated decades of love,

encouraging each other in their careers and battles. Hers is well known: from labor lawyer to Minister of Labor with the Communist Party as her point of support. She later took it to En Marea and Unidas Podemos. With those boats adrift, in 2023

she built herself a lifeboard with Sumar.

As for Andrés' career, according to his Linkedin account,

he worked as a technical draftsman at the construction company Vialca

. Little else is known apart from the fact that he went through a big job slump in 2008, when he closed a company he was in due to the crisis and

decided to dedicate himself to caring for Carmeliña

. According to his surroundings, he has been working on his own in Madrid since they moved to the capital in 2020.

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Now he has returned to the sea for which Yolanda Díaz feels great nostalgia. She will help

manufacture ships for the Ferrol shipping company Navantia,

heir to Astano, a shipyard where Suso Díaz was a worker and union protagonist of the naval revolts of the 70s.

It is unknown if Andrés Meizoso will regularly visit Madrid. Yolanda Díaz

has campaigned in Galicia these days,

on the eve of the Xunta elections. A trip to Mexico, another to the Vatican, public appearances and meetings followed.

The Ministry of Labor is a demanding lover

that the vice president must combine with caring for her daughter.

A "resolute, reading and smiling" girl

whom her friends affectionately call the

mini-minister

. For Carmeliña's friends, Yolanda Díaz is the

motomami

. No one doubts that her

boat daddy

will also be on her path. As she always has been.