The right wave the straw man of communism to attack the new Government of the PSOE and United we Can. But there is some truth to that in the next Council of Ministers are going to sit a communist. Alberto Garzón, the future minister of Consumption, and the leader of IU, is militant of the PCE and proud advocate of communism. In 2017, he published a book that leaves no doubt, why I am a communist, and undertook a lecture tour to spread the ideology. Economist of 34 years, the coordinator of IU forged the first coalition of his party with we Can.
“marxism is not the key that opens all the doors, but a light that allows us to better understand the reality,” he said in those lectures that led him all over the country on the 40th anniversary of the legalization of the PCE, who had embraced eurocommunism in the Transition. On Saturday, in his intervention at the session of investiture, the leader of IU came out in defense of the PCE to evoke precisely its fundamental role in that period. He reminded Paul Married without the PCE “do not understand democracy or the Constitution of the 78”. “The verbiage anti-communist is incompatible with the spirit of the Transition”. The next responsible Consumption is also a convinced republican: The third republic is another of the six titles published. Always refers to the King as “citizen Borbón”.
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The political career of Garzón, born in Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga), took on momentum in the 15-M, on whose protests are actively involved. In 2011 achieved his first act as deputy in the Congress and in 2016 the leadership of the United Left. Soon it was proposed to drive with Can. The “covenant of time”, as he was christened, crystallized the left-wing coalition that has finished aupando to the cabinet of ministers.
