Podemos had argued that including other parties in Sanchez’s government would make it more stable but asked during an interview with public television TVE if his cabinet would include members of Podemos, the Socialist party’s deputy secretary general Adriana Lastra said: “No”.
Former European parliament president Josep Borrell will be nominated as Spain’s foreign minister in new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist government, a Socialist party source told AFP.
Borrell, a 71-year-old former leader of Spain’s Socialists, has accepted Sanchez’s invitation, making him the first confirmed member of his cabinet, the source added.
He will replace Alfonso Dastis, a career diplomat, who occupied the post under ousted conservative premier Mariano Rajoy.
