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Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and head of the Smar party, has offered former equality minister Irene Montero to become ambassador to Chile to give her a “political outlet”. The PSOE-Sumaru coalition’s offer to become an ambassador was announced yesterday by Podemos Secretary-General Ione Berara.
Berala, who attended Montero’s presentation as head of Podemos’ list of candidates for the upcoming European elections, said he did not reveal from whom the offer of “good things” came.she pointed out He said she had been offered the ambassadorship and that the purpose was to give her a “political outlet” to “stop causing trouble”.
Afterwards, a member of the Purple Party said the following. The offer came from Yolanda Díaz, and the embassy would be located in Chile, where Montero has good relations. Because she had spent two periods studying there, and because the government headed by Gabriel Boric was very sympathetic to Podemos’s views. In fact, both Yolanda Díaz and Irene Montero accompanied Chile’s King Santiago de Chile to attend President Boric’s inauguration in March 2022.
If Montero had accepted this offer, the government would have fired the current ambassador, Rafael Galanzo.Although he has been in office less than two and a half years, he has had a long diplomatic career, starting in 1985 and serving as director of the Ibero-American Affairs Bureau and ambassador to Nicaragua.
The appointment of ambassadors who do not belong to a diplomatic career has been carried out to a greater or lesser extent by other governments, especially the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, but has now been strengthened during the term of Pedro Sánchez. Four former ministers have been appointed as heads of many embassies, including the United Nations, UNESCO, OAS, and the Holy See., in addition to two other “political” ambassadors for Cuba and the OECD. This drift has been criticized by the Spanish Diplomatic Association (ADE) and usually causes anxiety among members of the diplomatic corps.