The departure of Teresa Ribera to the European Commission will force a reorganization of the Government that Pedro Sánchez is currently seeking to reduce his work. Little by little, without adding changes to many ministers. Something that not everyone in the government saw that would conflict with the plans of the President of the Government on the PSOE, as he foresaw what was happening. a major overhaul of the executive in the federal congress from Seville.
What the members of the Executive also put on the table is that with the departure of Ribera from the Government, the door opens to reduce part of the power included in the third vice president of the Ecological Transition. It is possible that some of them will go to Transport history, something that He believes that it is possible in the ministry led by Óscar Puente.
Energy Transfer in Transport can focus on charging infrastructure to accelerate the introduction of electric vehicles. The encouragement that several regional presidents sought in their bilateral meetings with Pedro Sánchez in recent weeks. Government sources also show the conflict that it is not the same ministry that provides information on environmental impact and promotes the implementation of certain projects, and pressure from Brussels to move forward decisively when sending these devices.
Last September, the Council of Ministers approved the revision of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) 2021-2030, which aims to achieve 5.5 million electric vehicles by the end of the decade (compared to 220,000 electric cars on Spanish roads). To do this, tolls need to be increased significantly, both on roads and in cities. And yet, from both the electric and automotive sectors, it seems impossible to achieve this goal of expanding electric vehicles until the end of the decade.
‘Calviño’s Style’
When Nadia Calviño was replaced at the beginning of the parliament, due to the appointment of the head of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Pedro Sánchez already took the opportunity to advance María Jesús Montero to the position of first vice president. In addition cut off his strength, and Economy in the sector he appointed Carlos Body and Public Function that came from the Treasury to be taken over by the Minister of Digital Transformation, José Luis Escrivá, and is now controlled by Óscar López.
The replacement of Teresa Ribera, who is expected at the beginning of December after taking the Vice-President of Clean, Fair and Competitive Reforms in Brussels and the history of Competition, remains in the air. If the third vice president is retained or if it will be considered by the person who is taking it, and about whom Sánchez has not given signs. In which there will be no change in the number of the Government that is related to the young friend of Sumar, led by the vice president and Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz.
Political weight, the weight of the PSOE
In socialist societies they change that there will be Big changes to Ferraz’s solid mechanicswhen he is in the Executive, the president avoids comparing the size of the Government’s problems. All this shows the weakness of the State parliament, with the 2025 Budget up and determined to resist until the end of the parliament.
Sánchez has shown his commitment to the political agenda act as protection when he chose Óscar Lópezthe black leg of the PSOE and until then Chief of Staff, to replace the unofficial Minister José Luis Escrivá in Digital Transformation and Public Function. The decision to recover as director of the Civil Guard until now the second in Congress and general secretary of the socialists in Madrid, Mercedes González, was the same. As the new president of Adif, until then the vice-minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Basque Country on behalf of the PSE section, Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña.
Instead of Ribera from the Executive, a political history rather than technical expertise. In line with Óscar López, who after the election has already expressed his desire to stop the silence that his former position as the head of the Sánchez cabinet forced him to deal with the “nonsense and lies” that he said were opposition.
I am waiting for Sánchez to agree with the new pieces in the PSOE and the Government, the idea of saving communication vessels between Ferraz and Moncloa. Since the last reform of the authorities, approved within the framework of the Political Convention of A Coruña last January, there are 13 socialist ministers with a card who are part of the authorities. Doubling of what it had and what was completed by the secretaries of State to strengthen the process of “unification of responsibilities” with the Government.
