Moncloa offered Genoa two positions and the popular gave the names of the former president of La Rioja Pedro Sanz and the former minister Juan Carlos Aparicio
The astral distance between the Government and the PP, fueled and promoted by both sides, has not been an impediment for them to agree on the appointments for the renewal of the Council of State. Barely two days after a loud confrontation, with the Ibero-American summit in Santo Domingo in the background, the Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the appointment of new members of the Council of State and the renewal of others.
Among the new, Elena Valenciano, Javier Losada, and Juan Carlos Aparicio. and Pedro Sanz. Two from the socialist sphere and others from the PP. His appointment is a prerogative of the Executive that He was not obliged to offer these positions to the PP, according to government sources. But, they point out, the proposal was made to them and Genoa accepted. They put on the table the names of Aparicio, former Minister of Labor with José María Aznar, and Sanz, former president of La Rioja, who fills the vacancy for regional leaders. Aparicio replaces Juan Antonio Ortega y Díaz-Ambrona, he was a minister with the UCD.
The conversations about the changes in the mandate of the councilors took place between the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the general secretary of the PP and parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra. It was Bolaños who had the initiative and found no resistance, which shows that on some issues, the Executive and the PP are capable of reaching agreements. despite the prevailing atmosphere of tension between them. The elective members of the Council of State do not have a permanent salary but receive allowances for their attendance at meetings.
The appointments have a clearly socialist reading since it supposes the recovery of the ex deputy general secretary of the PSOE in the stage of Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, of Elena Valenciano. Very far from Sánchez, since he took over the reins of the party and his subsequent arrival at Moncloa, he has very close ties with some people who are now the president’s most trusted, such as his chief of staff, Óscar López, and his deputy. , Antonio Hernando, who also spent a long time very distant from the head of the Executive.