Ten days after the government crisis that made
Raquel Sánchez
the new Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, there is hardly any trace of her predecessor in office.
In the last hours Sánchez has carried out a series of changes that involve the
renewal of key positions in the Ministry
and that erase most of the legacy of the José Luis Ábalos stage.
And that Ábalos himself was in charge of highlighting and highlighting his achievements during the
cold transfer of portfolios
that occurred between the two. "When we arrived we found an underfunded ministry and an old culture. There were structural problems. Now you have many situations unblocked and especially the European plan to distribute the first funds. It is a different scenario," said the outgoing minister.
But as much as Ábalos pointed the way, the new minister wants to leave behind the shadows that have surrounded the former minister during these years - the controversy over
Delcygate
or the Plus Ultra case, among others - and mark her mark from the beginning .
An imprint that will pivot on two main pillars:
housing and management with a feminist vision
.
With regard to housing, Raquel Sánchez has not communicated any significant changes so far and the team that negotiated with United We Can on the future Housing Law continues to work to try to reach an agreement.
In the other aspect, the most significant move has been to appoint
Isabel Pardo de Vera
- until now president of Adif - as the new Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, replacing Pedro Saura.
Pardo de Vera will be
number two
in Transport and her appointment is also interpreted as a commitment to a professional management profile with extensive experience and experience in the sector.
Pardo de Vera has been part of Adif since 2007, although it was not until June 2018 that she was appointed president of the Railway Infrastructure Administrator.
It is expected that in the next few hours the name of the person who will take over from the institution will be known.
Saura, to Paradores
Pedro Saura,
for his part, sets course for the presidency of Paradores, a position that up until now had been occupied by
Óscar López
, the new head of the Prime Minister's Cabinet. Saura has been one of Ábalos's squires during his years in the Ministry and combined a technical profile and a wide professional career with his political career within the party, and perhaps that is why the Government has assigned him as a new destination one of the most important positions. desired at the institutional level. Saura's challenge at Paradores will be to give the institution a new boost after the decline caused by the drop in income due to the covid.
The last big change that has been known in the last hours has to do with
Koldo García
, whom Raquel Sánchez has ceased as a director of Renfe Merchandise, according to
El Confidencial
this Wednesday. García, in addition to being a counselor, was above all a personal friend of José Luis Ábalos and his arrival at the railway company was always surrounded by controversy, something that will surely have weighed on the minister's decision.
Koldo García is believed to have played a fundamental role in
Delcygate
as he was the person who took Ábalos to Barajas airport (Madrid) in the controversial flight of the Venezuelan vice president.
But it has not been the only scandal with which García has been related, since he was also in question over the appointment of his partner as an assistant secretary in the Ministry or his discussion with the mayor of León.
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