The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has explained that she will not be on the lists of the candidacy prepared by IU, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid, and Comuns for the next general elections in 2027 and hopes that this political space gets the choice of the future lead candidate right. She has shown confidence in the “collective intelligence” of the political formations to choose the candidate who “generates the most consensus” and has no doubt that it will be an “excellent” person to perform that role.
“I will not be on the next electoral lists (…) After being in institutional politics, and also on the front line, I think it is very healthy to step aside and put the best, the learning and the accumulated knowledge we have, at the disposal of the projects to come,” she emphasized during an interview with Europa Press in which the minister insisted that she is available to “lend a hand” to that future left-wing confluence. Rego sees it necessary to reflect deeply on the political projects of the future, something that, in her opinion, goes beyond electoral times. For example, she has pointed out that it is advisable to think about new forms of militancy.
Likewise, she has highlighted that the organizations to the left of the PSOE must form a broad front based on a “minimum program,” which pivots on elements such as the defense of public services, feminism, environmentalism, and the defense of children’s rights.
“In that political project, different organizations, different militancies, and different visions of the country can fit, which can then converge in a device, in an electoral coalition led by the person who generates the most consensus,” Rego stated, who sees it as “very simple” for the parties to agree on programmatic issues.
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Rego has been Minister of Youth and Childhood since November 2023, a department that was created at that time. That entry into the Government came at a time of change for her party, IU. She was a Member of the European Parliament and federal spokesperson of the organization with Alberto Garzón in charge, and his withdrawal as Minister of Consumption made her the main public reference of her party.
Born in Spain, the politician is of Palestinian origin, where she spent much of her childhood. Her brother, her father, and part of her paternal family live in the West Bank, which brings her closer to the conflict also on a personal level. Like IU, she has always defended the cause of the Palestinian people and, after the military escalation following the Hamas attacks on October 7, she has remained very active in protest and firm in condemning Israel, a country she calls the “occupying power.”