Pablo Bustinduy, the minister who conquers spaces | Spain
In a country where the partisan trifulca Copa the Informative Agend Block by law the calls spam or supposed platform abuses such as ticketmaster. A few hours after The entrance manager will be hung While hundreds of thousands of followers of singer Bad Bunny tried to get a pass for their concerts in Spain, consumption announced an investigation to avoid charges of illicit surcharges. A few days later I ordered 65,000 to withdraw illegal Airbnb ads.
In a very complicated legislature, without budgets or clear majorities to carry out initiatives in Congress and with a public debate very marked by corruption, Bustinduy, the youngest of the Executive, has been climbing positions until it becomes the second best valued minister. With an average note of 4.88, According to the April CIS « The last one that evaluated the cabinet, » only the head of Economics, Carlos Body (5,10), is overcome, is well above the attached leader Yolanda Díaz (4,16).
But his figure takes time exposed, sometimes involuntarily. Last November, consumption imposed a sanction of 179 million euros to five airlines for abusive practices and the fine caused the anger of the CEO of the Ryanair Group, Michael O’Leary. The company’s CEO He referred to him as « Crazy Communist » And it came to disguise him of clown. Bustinduy, not very fond of poleminating in public, replied that « no pressures or insult campaign » were going to « intimidate. » Time before had already been news for his position on the war in Gaza. From his ministry, he sent letters to different Spanish companies in Israel to ask them to take measures not to contribute to « genocide. » That episode greatly bothered both exterior and economy, which unmotable from the action, and Israel’s embassy in Madrid showed its rejection in a statement.
Despite the modest position of the department (consumption is only a general secretariat within the Ministry), the Bustinduy team manages to try to influence issues that affect citizens’ day to day, with issues as disparate as housing, the “dynamic” prices of the VTC, healthy food or collection for hand luggage. Sources from the Ministry grant that their work drinks largely from the inheritance left by Alberto Garzón, which approved the legislature last sanctioning regulations that now allow many of these initiatives to be carried out.
« Ideas are measured in their effects, » says the description of the Bustinduy profile on social networks such as Bluesky or X, where he stopped publishing in January, Same as the rest of adding leadersafter the drift imposed by its owner, Elon Musk. « Little is a spun discourse capable of lifting the applause on the left if that does not improve people’s lives. It is not the political moment to generate false expectations, » explains one of his closest collaborators, who describes him as a « tenacious and methodical » person.
Son of the Socialist Minister Angeles Amador, who held the portfolio of Health between 1993 and 1996, Bustinduy graduated in Political Science and the Administration at the Complutense University of Madrid and later expanded his training in France, where he studied a master’s degree in history and political thought at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, and in the US Pablo Iglesias’s team In the European Parliament, he was later deputy of Podemos, he dealt with the International Secretariat of the party and although they chose him head of the European 2019, he decided to leave the formation and finally did not attend. Yolanda Díaz recovered it for the campaign of the generals and despite having been appointed minister, he has always shunned any organic responsibility.
Members of the current Add Movement Directorate, the party created by the Second Vice President, comment that it would have been the perfect relay for Díaz when decided to leave coordination a year agobut it was never a real option. « The goal is not to be the fashionable boy, or see himself as a substitute for anyone. We have four years to do a job that serves the one who comes later, » they set out in his team, who deny any possibility of future leadership. In a moment of weakness of the space of the alternative left, divided into two lists, without a clear candidate and after the scandals for alleged sexual crimes of Íñigo Errejón and Juan Carlos Monedero (whose cause for an alleged crime of sexual aggression has been filed this Wednesday), Bustinduy also represents a little known profile: only one in four Spaniards (24.7%) knows who is very 51% that identifies Mónica García or 96% of Díaz.
Healthy food in hospitals and residences
The minister’s commitment is with his department, they insist on his environment. In addition to the announcement of Approve « as soon as possible » A decree to regulate meals in hospitals and residences of seniors similar to the one who prohibited sugary drinks in school dining rooms in April, the Ministry is pending to carry out in Congress the Law of Services of Customer Services, which He stayed at the doors of the BOE before the generals of 2023. In its processing, amendments have been included to veto the Automatic renewal of Internet subscriptions o Block phone calls spam. Bustonduy has also endorsed the battle to ensure that at least four of the eight weeks of the permits by conciliation are remunerated (currently none is and Brussels has already fined Spain for breaching the European directive in this matter). Another objective is the expansion of birth permit until 20 weeks, one of the agreements included in the coalition pact.
