Ayuso completes his Government with Ruiz Escudero (Health), David Pérez (Housing) and Paloma Martín (Environment)

The president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has completed her Government tonight by appointing her number two , the former mayor of Alcorcón David Pérez, new Minister of Housing and Local Administration, and Paloma Martín new Minister of Environment, Land Management and Sustainability Enrique Ruiz Escudero will continue as a Health adviser and will be the only member of the former Executive who remains in the position.

David Pérez has a degree in Journalism and a regional deputy since 2012. The scourge of the opposition in the Assembly when the president was Esperanza Aguirre, has also been during two legislatures mayor of Alcorcón, in whose plenary session of the City Council was failed until six times.

With the arrival of Cristina Cifuentes to the presidency of the PP in Madrid he lost the prominence and was considered evicted to be the old guard of the party, but the arrival of Pablo Casado revitalized him, being the number two of Díaz Ayuso in the past elections. His experience as president of the Madrid Federation of Municipalities has been key to his appointment in the new portfolio.

Paloma Martín, director of Deloitte, has a law degree. He has held positions in the Ministry of Health, where he was responsible for Health Planning and Inspection, and has provided professional services in the social and health sector. He has been a member of the Planning Commission, the Environment Council and the Imidra Board of Directors.

Enrique Ruiz Escudero holds a degree in Medicine and was appointed as Health Advisor by former President Cristina Cifuentes in September 2017 to replace the controversial Jesús Sánchez Martos, who resigned after being disapproved by the Madrid Assembly.

Ruiz Escudero has been a regional deputy since 2007 and before occupying the Health portfolio he was Deputy Minister of the Presidency and Justice under Angel Garrido.

In the almost two years that he has been in charge of the Ministry of Health, Ruiz Escudero has managed to pacify a sector, the sanitary, which had always had a very complicated relationship with the regional government.

Among its challenges, the ambitious renovation plan for hospitals in the region , starting with that of La Paz.

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