The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has come out in defense of the former Minister of Consumption and former coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzón, who this Wednesday backtracked and announced his resignation to join the consulting firm Acento, directed by the former minister. of Health Alfonso Alonso (PP) and the former Minister of Development José Blanco (PSOE), for the "incomprehension aroused" in the political space of the left and for "not harming" the organizations to which he has dedicated his life on the eve of the elections to the Galician Parliament next Sunday.
Minister Puente, very active on social networks, has commented on Garzón's resignation on X, highlighting the prejudices of being a politician. "You have to earn little. Ask for forgiveness all day long for being a politician. Endure insults and intrusions in your private life. If you are on the left, more and more, suffer all kinds of hoaxes and slander. And then look for a job in something you don't. have the slightest relation to what you have done. In this way, the minister has expressed solidarity with the former head of Consumer Affairs.
When it became known yesterday that Garzón would sign for Acento to take over the geopolitical prospective direction of the firm from within Podemos, they regretted the step since the former leader of Izquierda Unida himself had deplored in various previous interviews the existence of revolving doors in politics.
"There are a few media outlets among those that regularly cover the left in which this news is either not on the cover or is very small at the bottom. Now imagine that the protagonist was Pablo Iglesias," suggested yesterday the former Podemos spokesperson in Congress Pablo Echenique. And the founder of the purple ones, Pablo Iglesias, wrote today in Canal Red that "there are more decent options for a communist than renting your experience as a minister (because that is what they pay) to a consulting firm run by former two-party ministers who sell their services to private companies".
