• Media.Fernando Garea, on his resignation as Efe president: "A public news agency is not a government agency"

The Government returns to move file in the Efe agency.

If in February of this year the Executive decided to dismiss Fernando Garea as president, now it has placed Enrique Cervera as managing director.

He is a person completely related to the PSOE, especially to his Andalusian federation, and who has been an advisor to Manuel Chaves and Susana Díaz.

The appointment was communicated yesterday to the workers and caused some astonishment in members of the Government, due to the affinity of the new manager with the socialist party.

Cervera will occupy a key position in the agency, as that of managing director.

In this way, the PSOE has placed two people linked to this formation at the top of the state news agency, since the current president, in addition to her journalistic work, between 2006 and 2008 was general director of International Information at the Secretary of State for Communication, with the presidency of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Garea, when he was fired by the government, claimed that "a public news agency is not a government news agency, not even an official agency."

A direct message to the purposes or intentions of the Executive.

In the case of Cervera Grájera, his link with the PSOE is much greater.

Specifically with Andalusia.

He was spokesman for the Government of the Junta de Andalucía between 2002 and 2009 with Manuel Chaves as president.

Their relationship did not end there, because when the Andalusian president jumped the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as third vice president and minister of Territorial Policy, he accompanied him as director of communication.

It should be remembered that Chaves, former president of the Junta de Andalucía (1990-2009) and the Andalusian PSOE (2000-2012), was sentenced to nine years of disqualification for prevarication in the ERE sentence.

In the communication to the workers announcing the arrival of Cervera, it is stated that it comes from Sepides, a company belonging to the SEPI group, where until now he has been Director of Communication and Marketing.

Journalist and law graduate, Cervera practiced this profession at El Correo de Andalucía and was a spokesperson for the Junta de Andalucía.

During the last nine years he developed communication and marketing tasks from his own consulting company.

It was at this time, when he founded his own company, in which he served as an advisor to Susana Díaz, while he held the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía.

Enrique Cervera is the brother of José Manuel Cervera Gragera, also linked to the PSOE, and who, among other experiences, has worked as general director of Andalusian Studies of the Junta de Andalucía or director of the cabinet of the Vice President of the Government of Territorial Policy, Manuel Chaves.

In addition, he has integrated official delegations of the Junta de Andalucía and the Spanish Government to the European Union and countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Morocco, Libya, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Mexico, Cuba, States States, Japan, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait.

He currently directs the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, a position in which the Government led by the popular Juan Manuel Moreno kept him.

Other news of the agency announced this week is the creation of the Cabinet of the Presidency, which will be in charge of Lourdes Álvarez Esmorís.

The Efe agency frames these changes in a situation in which "flexibility is imposed in the face of the urgent need to recover normality as much as possible to improve our work and our procedures."

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