Page "Julio Anguita" Paragraph 5

After a third cardiovascular problem in the end of 1999 he left the candidacy to the Presidence in the 2000 elections to Francisco Frutos by health reasons ( in an interview in 2004 he said the main reason was the dissatisfaction about the political agenda of IU.

Likewise he was relieved as general secretary of the PCE by Francisco Frutos.

In the VI Assembly of United Left, in October of that same year, he was replaced as General Coordinator by Gaspar Llamazares.