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Calviño’s Memoir Recasts Coalition Feuds, From Bildu Shock to Labor Reform Clash

Her memoir offers first‑person disclosures of coalition strains that shaped Spain’s pandemic‑era policymaking.

Overview

  • Calviño says she considered quitting over the labor reform after clashes with Yolanda Díaz on the scope and method of the overhaul.
  • She recounts discovering the 2020 agreement with Bildu indirectly and telling Pedro Sánchez that, if that was the plan, she did not see her place in the cabinet.
  • The book describes daily harassment outside her home and threats to her children during the most intense phases of her tenure.
  • She stresses she always felt fully supported by the prime minister and portrays herself as a bulwark against the minority partner’s “radical” proposals.
  • Presenting the book in Madrid as EIB president, she defends the government’s pandemic‑era economic response and notes unfinished goals such as a financial consumer law and a public bank built around the ICO.