• New Government: Pedro Sánchez irritates Pablo Iglesias by equating three other vice presidents
  • Vice President Teresa Ribera, a left-wing climate expert against bulls, hunting and diesel cars
  • Government: Nadia Calviño, used in the campaign and then weakened in the new Government
  • Minister of Universities.The opaque society with which the future Minister of Universities, Manuel Castells, was taxing

The new Government of Pedro Sánchez will have up to four vice-presidencies, which will fall to Pablo Iglesias , Carmen Calvo , Nadia Calviño and Teresa Ribera . As for the rest of the ministers , the socialist leader has already made public some of the names that will make up the new executive. We review them.

Carmen Calvo (Goat, 1957)

Carmen Calvo will maintain her position as First Vice President. The Andalusian will be Minister of the Presidency and Relations with the Courts . He will also assume the area of Democratic Memory , which until now depended on the Ministry of Justice. On the other hand, Calvo will lose the skills of Equality, which Irene Montero will assume.

Carmen Calvo, a PhD in Constitutional Law , attended the Andalusian regional elections for the first time in 1996, when she still did not have a socialist card. From there, a political career began to be developed, first as Minister of Culture and Sports of the Andalusian Government chaired by Manuel Chaves (1996-2004) and then as Minister of Culture (2004-2007) with Zapatero .

Pablo Iglesias (Madrid, 1978)

Pablo Iglesias will assume the Second Vice Presidency of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda . The Ministries of Equality, Labor, Universities and Consumption will depend on it.

The leader of Podemos was a professor of Political Science at the Complutense University before making the leap to the frontline of politics.

Nadia Calviño (La Coruña, 1968)

Current Minister of Economy and Business, Nadia Calviño , will be the vice president in charge of coordinating economic affairs and digital transformation in the new Government that Pedro Sánchez will preside. According to sources from Moncloa, Calviño "will also promote the digitalization project of the entire Public Administration, committed by the new government."

Born in A Coruña in 1968, she has a degree in Economic Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and in Law from the UNED, and since 1994 she belongs to the Body of Commercial Technicians and Economists of the State, from where she made the leap to the Ministry of Economy. Calviño He arrived with a technical and independent profile to the Government that Sánchez.

Teresa Ribera (Madrid, 1969)

Teresa Ribera will hold a fourth vice-presidency for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge . Among its main objectives will be to pass a Law on Climate Change and Fair Transition.

Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and degree in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Center for Constitutional Studies, Ribera assumes the new stage with the endorsement of a management focused on the fight against the climate crisis.

María Jesús Montero (Seville, 1966)

María Jesús Montero will be the spokeswoman for the new coalition government between PSOE and United We can, thus succeeding Isabel Celaá in office. Montero will also retain the Treasury portfolio.

Montero (Seville 1966), has a degree in Medicine and Surgery and a master's degree in Hospital Management from the EADA Business School, held the Treasury and Public Administration portfolio in the Junta de Andalucía since 2013, department that arrived in 2004 by the hand of Manuel Chaves

Isabel Celaá (Bilbao, 1949)

Isabel Celaá will continue as Minister of Education and Vocational Training in the new coalition government even if she loses the spokesperson.

Celaá has a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the specialty of English Philology as well as a Law Degree.

Pedro Duque (Madrid, 1963)

Likewise, Pedro Duque will continue to lead the Science portfolio, although he will not have competitions in Universities , which will pass to Manuel Castells.

Born in Madrid in 1963, Duque is an Aeronautical Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers) and Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (RAING) since 1999. He arrived at the Government of Sánchez in June 2018 .

José Luis Ábalos (Torrent, 1959)

José Luis Ábalos will continue as Minister of Development, although the portfolio is renamed Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda .

Abalos was born in Torrent (Valencia) in 1959. He has been a friend of Pedro Sánchez since the secretary general was a private deputy. He came to politics in the Communist Youth, then went to the PCE, to end in 1980 at the PSOE.

Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Bilbao, 1962)

Fernando Grande-Marlaska also repeats as Interior Minister. Born in Bilbao in July 1962, he has played a leading role in the fight against ETA as an investigating judge.

Reyes Maroto (Medina del Campo, 1973)

Reyes Maroto will continue to lead the Ministry of Industry , which came from the hand of Pedro Sánchez after the motion of censure to Rajoy.

Maroto has a degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Valladolid. He has a Master in Economics and Finance from the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies and a Master in Health Assessment and Market Access from the Carlos III University.

Laya has been the Executive Director of the International Trade Center (ITC), the joint development agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, based in Switzerland since 2013.

Arancha González Laya (Tolosa, 1969)

Another of the new appointments is that of Arancha González Laya , who will assume the Foreign, EU and Cooperation portfolio.

Born in Tolosa (Navarra) in 1969 and a training lawyer, Arancha González Laya was a spokesman for the European Commission (2002-2005), with the Frenchman Pascal Lamy when he was commissioner of Commerce and later head of the latter during his term of office. World Trade Organization (WTO).

Margarita Robles (León, 1956)

Margarita Robles will continue to lead the Ministry of Defense in the coalition government. He will continue this way with his work at the head of the Armed Forces that he assumed a year and a half ago.

Robles, born in León in 1956, has a law degree from the Central University of Barcelona. She has held positions of judge and magistrate in Balaguer, San Feliú de Llobregat, Bilbao, accessing the Provincial Court of Barcelona in 1981, being the first woman to reach a collegiate body in Spain.

José Luis Escrivá (Albacete, 1960)

José Luis Escrivá will lead the new Ministry of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration .

Current president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), José Luis Escrivá, who will be one of the independent members of the new Cabinet.

Luis Planas (Valencia, 1952)

Luis Planas will continue in the new Government as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food . Planas will have as main challenges the negotiation of the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), mitigate the impact of 'Brexit' in the agri-food sector and fisheries, and address the tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration.

Luis Planas has a Law Degree from the University of Valencia. In 1982 in the European Commission, he began a pre-accession preparation program and was a member of the European Parliament between 1986 and 1993, where he took part in the committees on Foreign Affairs and Security, and Institutional Affairs.

Alberto Garzón (Logroño, 1985)

Alberto Garzón is one of the members of Unidos Podemos that enters the coalition government. Garzón will assume the new Consumer portfolio. Among its challenges will be to control the extension of bookmakers and regulate their advertising, as well as update the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users.

Garzón, leader of IU for almost 4 years, was, at the time, the youngest deputy with 26 years. Although his education and training is Malaga, there he graduated in Economics , was born in Logroño in 1985. He is also a master in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid since 2011.

Irene Montero (Madrid, 1988)

The number two of Podemos and so far Parliamentary spokesperson of United Podemos, Irene Montero (Madrid, 1988), will become Minister of Equality .

Graduated in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2011), and Master in Educational Psychology (2013), Montero left in 2015 the doctorate on educational inclusion that she was doing to be able to devote full time to politics and to her work as a deputy and leader of Podemos.

Yolanda Díaz (Fene, 1971)

Siputada de Galicia en Comú and leader of the United Left, Yolanda Díaz will be the next Minister of Labor .

Born in Fene (A Coruña) in 1971, Díaz is a labor lawyer and feminist activist. He has held institutional positions since 2003, when he was made with an act of councilwoman in the City of Ferrol. In 2005, after assuming the position of national coordinator of Esquerda Unida - the federation of IU in Galicia -, which she retained until 2017, she was a candidate for the Xunta and repeated in 2009, remaining out of Parliament both times.

Manuel Castells (Hellín, 1942)

Professor of sociology, economist and information society expert Manuel Castells (Hellín, Albacete, 1942) will direct the Ministry of Universities , now separated from the Ministry of Science.

Expert in the information society, Castells has been Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley for 24 years and in 2001 he returned to Spain to direct the research at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

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