Calviño appoints Elena Manzanera president of the INE after the controversial resignation of Rodríguez Poo

The Government has appointed the new president of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) to the until now director of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA) of Andalusia,

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At the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, the Council of Ministers approved this Monday the appointment of Elena Manzanera, who has a very technical profile due to her career at the head of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, an agency dependent on the Ministry of Economy, Treasury and European Funds of the Junta de Andalucía.

Manzanera will replace Juan Manuel Rodríguez Poo in the Presidency of Statistics, after at the end of June he presented his resignation from the position he had held since 2018

Rodríguez Poo presented his resignation

as president of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) after the Government questioned, on numerous occasions, the results of the National Accounts, the figures of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and, to a lesser extent, the data of CPI.

In a statement sent last night, the Ministry of Economy has linked the exit to a process of "

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"The current president of the INE, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Poo, has led", says the ministry led by Nadia Calviño, the "process of modernization and reinforcement of the institution since his appointment in October 2018. Once the objectives have been achieved,

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A substitution process is being opened for this position, which is expected to close in the next few days », he affirms.

Manzanera has been director of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia since 2019.

She has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Seville, she has developed her entire career in the field of public statistics since she joined the Andalusian Institute of Statistics in 1990, where she has performed different functions.

She has been head of the Tourism Planning and Analysis Service in the General Directorate of Tourism Planning (1997-2001) and head of the Studies Service of the General Directorate of Andalusian Studies (2001-2004).

From 2004 to 2019, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Coordination, Communication and Methods Area of ​​the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, as reported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

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