According to socialist sources, Pedro Sánchez has been sworn in as president this Tuesday and it will be next week when the leader of the socialists present will be a government team. Among them will be Pablo Iglesias occupying the vice presidency of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda and the purple leader Irene Montero who will hold the Ministry of Equality. But there will be three ministers of United We Can More: Alberto Garzón (Consumer), Yolanda Díaz (Work) and Manuel Castells (Universities).
Garzón, the bet of the precocious politician
Militant of United Left from the age of 18 and economist, Alberto Garzón (1985), father of a girl and waiting for his second son, will be the next Minister of Consumer Affairs of Spain. From working family, the current federal coordinator of IU was born in Logroño but grew up in Rincón de la Victoria, in Málaga. He committed himself to the party he leads and to the communism since he reached the age of majority: upon entering the University he began to participate in student movements and, from there, made the leap to politics.
In 2011 he managed to occupy a seat in the Congress of Deputies. Six years later, after a rapid rise, he took over the leadership of the IU against the ruling candidates. Time passed and the rise of phenomena like 15 M and his personal commitment to the alliance with United We Can (which was not shared at the time by a relevant part of his training) temporarily removed him from the media focus. But that controversial bet on Pablo Iglesias, for what is popularly known as the bottleneck pact, will now catapult the Council of Ministers with a newly created portfolio. It will take Consumption, with competitions on the gambling and regulation of bookmakers, among other things.
Díaz, the school of the Galician crisis
Born in the estuary of Ferrol in 1971, Yolanda Diaz she lived from a young age among the industrial conflicts that surrounded her in the town of Fene. There, he drenched himself in union movements and learned in depth about the crisis in Galician companies. A profile that, for the leader of United We Can, Pablo Iglesias, makes it ideal to occupy the Ministry of Labor. A portfolio that, everything points to, will have neither Social Security nor Migration competences, which will remain under a socialist umbrella.
Díaz studied Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela and he began to serve in the United Esquerda and in the Communist Party. There he found the door to, in 2003, enter as councilor of the Ferrol City Council, where he dealt with municipal politics for nine years. At this stage, he managed to get hold of the national coordination of Esquerda Unida -a position that he held from 2005 to 2017-. Furthermore, on his ascent to the Council of Ministers he also went through the Galician Parliament (2012-2016) to then stop in the lower house, becoming part of the hard core of Iglesias.
An international eminence
The sociologist and economist Manuel Castells, expert in the information society, professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and of the Open University of Catalonia, is the proposal of the ‘comuns’ as Minister of Universities of the new Government to replace Pedro Duque.
Of Catalan descent, he was born in Hellin (Albacete) on February 9, 1942, and when he was studying Law, at the age of 20, he was forced to leave the country for political reasons. He graduated in Straight and graduated in Social Sciences at Work and Master in Sociology in Paris. He is also a doctor in Sociology by Sorbonne and by the Complutense University of Madrid and doctor of Letters and Human Sciences from the University of Paris-V. Dedicated to teaching in France and the United States, he worked in empirical sociology and urban movements. He is a doctor honoris causa by 18 universities.
His career, focused on his critical vision of the way in which society communicates and his growing distrust of power and democracy, has led him to receive thirty awards.
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