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He will be the first pharmacist Minister of Health in the history of Spain and Pedro Sánchez trusts him to enforce his prescription. At a time of tension for the PSOE, José Manuel Miñones Conde (Santiago de Compostela, 1972) may be the remedy that the Government needs in the face of the municipal elections.

The until now delegate of the Government of Galicia will take the portfolio that Carolina Darias has left in Madrid before heading to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. City Council for which this will be mayoral and one of the most complicated after the Mediator Case is uncovered. Scandal that has not only splashed Canarian socialism, but also national.

A recognized figure of the PSOE of Galicia and loyal to Sánchez since its inception, José Miñones makes the political leap to Madrid at a critical moment and without previous political experience outside his community. To date, his most important position had been the mayor of Ames between 2015 and 2021, a municipality in A Coruña in which he had previously served as councilor for Administrative Reform, Quality of Administration, New Technologies and Health.

However, his knowledge about the health sector has made Sánchez give "green cross" to his career in Madrid. Miñones has a degree in Pharmacy since 1997 and in 2001 he obtained his doctorate laude in this subject with a thesis on the "structural and morphological characteristics of amphotericin B". Subsequently, he was hired as a professor of Chemistry and Physics at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Santiago de Cospostela, where he also worked as a researcher.

José Manuel Miñones Conde, new Minister of HealthEFE

Pharmacy, like politics, Miñones is in his blood. And also in his heart. Married and father of two children, he met his current wife at the University, also a pharmacist by training, a job that he combines with a very different one: fashion and design. Also a businesswoman, she has had forays into the real estate world and image consulting. Although in recent years he has returned to the apothecary and the white coat, he seeks to gain a foothold in a job in the world of carvings and remnants.

José Manuel Miñones Conde is the son of José Miñones Trillo. A Galician politician and pharmacist whose personal history seems to have been the exact mold of his life. Born in Vimianzo (A Coruña) in 1936, Miñones Trillo also obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award of his promotion and served as Professor of Physical-Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the USC. From this strange twin father he has also inherited his passion for politics, since in his day he was councilor of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela and in 1985 elected deputy of the Parliament of Galicia. Only one detail separates them: his father belonged to the Popular Coalition (where Alianza Popular was integrated, germ of the Popular Party). Although with the arrival of the XXI century he went to the Galician Democracy party and managed to be a candidate for the Senate for this conservative group.

Great-uncle Pepe

The political vocation of the Miñones, however, did not begin during the transition. One of the most tragic stories of the Spanish Civil War also bears the surname of this powerful Galician family, with an ancestor of theirs as the protagonist. This is Pepe Miñones, an openly republican industrialist who was shot by the national side in the middle of the conflict.

Great-uncle of the current Minister of Health, José Miñones Bernárdez was born in Corcubión (A Coruña) in 1900 and will always be remembered in Galicia as a pioneer when it comes to bringing light and electricity to every corner of his land. Graduated in Commercial Teaching and Law in Madrid, in 1928 he went to Úbeda (Jaén) to promote a railway company of which he would be general director.

José Manuel Miñones' great-uncle, Pepe MiñonesArchive

But the ambition of who was already known as Pepe Miñones did not end here. During those years and, despite his youth, he managed to create an empire in which there were everything from newspapers to flour and soap factories.

However, the entrepreneur found the spark in other types of more revolutionary ideas. In 1932, he decided to return to Galicia to found Electra Popular Coruñesa, a company with which he wanted to supply the entire province with continuous electricity. Something he achieved thanks to the hydroelectric plant on the Lambre River as it passes through Güimil.

During all this time he also participated in politics. In 1936 he was chosen as a deputy for the Republican Union and appointed Civil Governor of A Coruña before being shot. Despite his end, during his term he had protected several rebels, prevented the burning of churches and convents by the Republican side and criticized the Popular Front for the murder of José Calvo Sotelo.

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