The Tenerife native Hector Gomezformer Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, has been appointed by the Council of Ministers as ambassador in the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations (UN) in New York.
Gómez is one of the president’s most faithful supporters Pedro Sanchez since he assumed the General Secretariat of the PSOE in 2014 and, above all, when he was forced to resign as the top leader of the socialists and renounce his role as deputy in 2016 during the deepest internal crisis that the socialists experienced in 40 years being contrary to making the investiture of Mariano Rajoy possible with an abstention.
The Tenerife native traveled with Sánchez for that desert and was at his side in primary battle against Susana Díaz and Patxi López in which the current president recovered the General Secretariat of the PSOE.
That loyalty was what led Sánchez to give him the spokesperson for the Parliamentary Group in 2021 and, later, appoint him minister this same year. Although he spent the longest time in office, his time at the Ministry has been well regarded by the sectors involved in that portfolio.
The Canarian PSOE insists that Luis Ibarra must have a highly relevant political position
He began political activity as a councilor of the City Council of Guide de Isora (Tenerife) and was later elected regional deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands in 2015 until his appointment as general director of Turespaña in 2018. In the 2019 Elections he was elected deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, an act that he revalidated last June, and He has been spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee, head of delegation at the Conference on the Future of Europe and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
On the other hand, Antonio Olivera has not assumed a Secretary of State, as the Canarian PSOE had ventured for weeks, but he was appointed by the Council of Ministers, director of the cabinet of the head of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torres“with high responsibilities.”
Majorero Gustavo Santana is appointed new general director of the Merchant Navy
Whoever was Torres’s right-hand man when he held the Presidency of Canary Islands with the pact of flowers, will now be again in Madrid with the objective of both coordinating the team, the Special Commissioner for the Reconstruction of The Palm as in “monitoring of territorial agreements within the Ministry.”
The appointment of Olivera is due, according to sources close to the minister, to the incontestable fact that he is “in the most absolute confidence” of Torres “and an essential manager in the team” of the current minister, since the latter “needs someone with the ability “management for transcendental issues” that will be addressed in the Ministry.
In addition, Olivera is part of the regional leadership of the Canarian PSOE, since he holds the position of head of the area of Public Management and Relations with the Administration, for which Torres maintains its strategy of surrounding itself with its own organic hard core and building a bridge of direct communication between the party in the Canary Islands and the Ministry in Madrid.
Born in Tenerife in 1976, he who was vice-counselor of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands During the last term, he holds a doctorate in Applied Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and has the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Economic and Monetary Integration of Europe and the Master in Applied Economics from the Ortega y Gasset University Institute, attached to the Complutense University of Madrid.
The canary quota seems to have been closed in the Torres Ministry with this latest appointment, which joins that of Tenerife’s Berta Pérez as undersecretary of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, in addition to the former vice president of Tenerife Council In the last mandate, it complied with the requirement suggested by the La Moncloa team itself to increase the presence of women in second and third level ministerial positions.
However, the island socialists consider it necessary that President Sánchez, after relocating former Minister Gómez as ambassador to the UN and the appointment of Olivera in the Ministry of Territorial Policy, must seek a relevant political position for the former president of the Port Authority of The PalmsLuis Ibarra, for whom the presidency of State Ports is requested.
From the Canarian PSOE it is remembered that Ibarra was already sacrificed in 2019, when it could be president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria but Torres himself, supported by the regional leadership, decided to give it to Antonio Morales to ensure the pact of flowers. Furthermore, his good management at the Port Authority of Las Palmas It is considered by the Canarian PSOE as a good letter of introduction to be in charge of the body that is responsible for the policy of the Spanish public port system.
The appointments of Gómez and Olivera are completed with that of Majorero Gustavo Santana, former Deputy Minister of Transport of the Government of the Canary Islands, as the new general director of the Merchant Navy. Born in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) in 1973, Santana graduated in Naval and Ocean Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Mechanical Engineer from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and was also vice president and managing director of the Puertos Canarios Public Entity.
The appointments of Gómez, Olivera and Santana have been received with the usual caution both in the Presidency of the Government and in the two main quadripartite parties that support it, CC and PP.
In the environment of the president Fernando Clavijo It is insisted that the news that any Canary Islander has State responsibilities is always welcome, but at the same time they remember that this does not mean that “our demands are lowered when it comes to defending the general interest of the Autonomous Community.”
