It has taken him almost a year, but he has succeeded. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has signed the former Minister of Employment, Fátima Báñez, who returns to the orbit of the leadership of the PP. He will do so as a member of the economic team of the party's foundation, which has been completely renewed – including the name – and which is presented tomorrow Friday.

The other two names that will pilot the economic team will be, as EL MUNDO exclusively announced on Tuesday, Josep Piqué (former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Science and Technology in the years of Aznar) and Román Escolano (who was Minister of Economy very briefly, in the last three months of Rajoy's mandate).

The foundation, which will be led by economist and former Renfe president Pablo Vázquez, will be presented on Friday in Madrid. They need to know more signings, but the key is the incorporation – so many times tried by Feijóo – of Báñez – This Tuesday, this newspaper pointed out that his signing was in the absence of the definitive "ok", and he already has it. That of the former minister was the economic profile most desired by the new national leadership of the PP, since the change of guard in April 2022.

The Huelva was one of the mainstays of Soraya's candidacy; In fact, she would have been the party's general secretary if she had won the 2018 congress. Now he joins other pro Sorayistas who populate the orbit of national power of the 'popular': the deputy secretaries Carmen Fúnez and Borja Sémper, the coordinator Bendodo, the coordinator of the program Íñigo de la Serna...

The former minister was, along with Luis de Guindos -the one that sounds the most for a hypothetical pool of PP ministers-, the main author of the 2012 labor reform, which the PP claims so much. That is why Feijóo wanted it to be part of his Office of the President, a failed project to channel external contributions to the PP.

Afterwards, there was much speculation about his possible return to active politics, but his environment always denied it – and still denies – to this newspaper. In fact, Báñez will not abandon his work activity in CEOE and Iberdrola, but will provide advisory work in the foundation of the PP.

Báñez, Piqué and Escolano will be accompanied in the economic team by five other experts in technology: the director of Alestis Aerospace, María Eugenia Clemente; the director of ASTI Mobile Rotics, Verónica Pascual; Alicia Richart, general director for Spain and Portugal of the artificial intelligence company Afiniti; Elena Pisonero, executive president of Taldig and José María Abad, ICADE professor and consultant, former advisor to the IMF.


In the new foundation of the PP, which will no longer be called Concordia and Libertad, will also be the uncle and former coach of Rafa Nadal, Toni Nadal, and the journalist Pilar García de la Granja.


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  • PP
  • Portugal
  • IMF
  • Rafa Nadal
  • Renfe
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
  • Fatima Banez
  • THE WORLD
  • Jose Maria Aznar
  • Roman Escolano
  • Mariano Rajoy
  • Borja Semper
  • Íñigo de la Serna
  • Luis de Guindos
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