Minister Irene Montero tearfully says goodbye to Noelia Vera: “She needed to stop to take care of herself”

The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, she has fired Noelia Vera, secretary of state of her ministry, with great emotion until yesterday she announced her resignation from the position.

Similarly, Vera made available to Podemos his seat in Congress and his abandonment of institutional politics.

“I would like to start by sending a hug to a colleague …” the head of Equality began her speech, as she burst out, excited, to cry. “A hug to a colleague who is not here because she has needed to stop to take care of herself and who with that decision also takes care of this political space. It’s Noelia Vera“.

“As women and feminists know that we never do anything alone, when a partner needs to step aside, someone has to step forward. So let’s give applause to Angela [Rodríguez Pam], who is going to be the new Secretary of State for Equality “.

“Forgive for the emotion, but politics is also about that,” the minister concluded her speech, wishing Vera “to recover, so that she can return,” in a women’s event that the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau.

Goodbye Vera

Yesterday, Vera, until then Secretary of State for Equality, announced the resignation of her position and the abandonment of her seat in the Lower House. “It has been a personal and complicated decision,” Vera said in a thread on Twitter.

Vera, a deputy for the Cádiz constituency, thus renounced all “public positions” and “institutional politics” due to a “personal and complicated decision”, of which she did not give more details.

“When the body warns you have to know how to stop, take a breath and take other paths,” he wrote on the social network. As confirmed by sources from the Podemos leadership to EL ESPAÑOL, it is a “purely personal matter” and within the purple party they knew from ten days before that Vera was going to take this step.

“After seven years in this, which I consider my home, I do not want to disappoint so many colleagues who gave me the responsibilities that I have honored,” Vera concluded.

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