From Moncloa they slipped in recent days, after Pedro Sánchez was invested, that in the new Government there would be surprises. And under this label can be classified the appointment of Canarian Carolina Darias as new Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function. With a long political career in the Canary Islands, the current Minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Islands Government has a 100% socialist DNA. A person by and for the party that must pilot the complex challenge of dialogue with the autonomous communities.

Very well known in the Canary Islands, however, for the general public it is a rather unknown policy. His appointment was not only surprised in the Peninsula, but also in the Islands, where the focus was Victoria Rosell, the former judge of Podemos, who even figured in a pool to be Minister of Justice . Finally, she will be the Government delegate for Gender Violence.

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1965, Darias has a Law Degree from the University of La Laguna and belongs to the Superior Body of General Administrators of the Canary Islands Public Administration. Those who know her define her as "hardworking" and "demanding."

This is an autonomous leader close to Pedro Sánchez, faithful to the current president of the Government from his first stage as socialist general secretary. Whenever they asked him what socialist leader he identified with, he replied: "Pedro Sánchez". In 2014, being spokesperson for the PSC-PSOE in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and a member of the Federal Executive of the PSOE, she presented herself to the primary to be the candidate for the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands. He lost in his dispute with Patricia Hernández .

Darias is linked to the organic life of the PSOE and public offices in the Canary Islands. In 1999 she was elected councilor of the City of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. A first step Its relevance and the confidence that the management in Madrid had in it is evidenced in that it held the position of subdelegate of the Government in Las Palmas from 2004 to 2008, and delegate of the Government of Spain in the Canary Islands between 2008 and 2011, year in who was elected advisor and spokesperson for the Cabildo de Gran Canaria.

She has been deputy of the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the VII Legislature, in which she held the Health Spokesman of the Socialist Group, until she served as Director of Land Management, Urban Planning and Housing of the City of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Your arrival to the Government will be conditioned by the dialogue with the communities, with the focus on Catalonia . Not by itself because of the direct interlocution with the Government, which Carmen Calvo could well coordinate, but because of the consequences that the bilateral table that Pedro Sánchez has agreed with the Generalitat may cause in other autonomies.

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