In her final stretch in the Ministry of Industry to be a candidate for Madrid City Council, Minister

Reyes Maroto

dismisses and demotes one of her lieutenants over the years:

Raül Blanco.

Until now he has held the General Secretariat for Industry and will be dismissed next Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, according to an official statement from the Ministry of Industry.

On a cold note, Maroto describes Blanco's departure as "cessation" and appoints him general director of the Fundación Escuela de Organización Industrial, which means a degradation in the Ministry's organization chart.

Maroto also points him out as "

responsible for implementing the new instruments of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan

financed with Next Generation funds such as the PERTEs (Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation) which represent the largest investment in history in industrial policy in our country".

This newspaper published the day before that the Government is requesting an extension of the Ministry of Industry's commitment to award 1,200 million in three PERTEs before the end of the year after the failure of the first and stellar one, that of the Electric and Connected Vehicle (VEC. This has finally remained deserted in about 75% with an awarded figure of 792 million.

Although the note points to Blanco as responsible for the PERTE, it is obvious that it is herself and that the Prime Minister himself,

Pedro Sánchez

, and even more so the minister herself, has been involved in the VEC's stellar plan.

The warmest thing about the minister with Blanco in the note is that "she wants to thank you for

your vocation for public service and excellent work at the head of the Secretariat in which you have had to face the negative effects of the pandemic

in the industrial sector by developing new industrial capacities to protect the health of the population.

But she does not praise her work in the PERTEs, she only describes it as responsible.

Blanco, linked to the PSC, has held the position since 2018 and has been surprised to be dismissed in the final phase of Maroto in the Ministry, according to the news advanced by

El Economista

.

FRANCISCO BLANCO, SUCCESSOR

His successor will be the former Minister of Industry in the Principality of Asturias under the presidency of Javier Fernández and current socialist senator,

Francisco Blanco.

His appointment in the final stretch of Maroto suggests that he will continue in the Ministry after her departure.

According to his official biography, he has a "graduate degree in Business Administration and Management and a PhD in Economics from the University of Oviedo".

Between 2007 and 2011 he was General Economic and Financial Director of the Gijón City Council, being responsible for the areas of budgets, taxation, accounting and wealth.

From 2011 to 2015 he was a councilor in the Gijón City Council, a position that he made compatible with his tasks as a teacher.

In 2015 he was appointed Minister of Employment, Industry and Tourism of the Government of the Principality of Asturias, and in 2019 he was elected senator in the thirteenth and fourteenth legislature, a position in which he has remained to date

.

As a senator he has been spokesman for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Senate in the Industry, Commerce and Tourism Commission

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