The configuration of the 23-J lists has forced an urgent remodeling of the Galician Government, the first since Alfonso Rueda took over from Alberto Nuñez Feijóo at the helm. The candidacies for the generals include two of the advisers who, together with Rueda, formed the hard core of the PP leader and, with his signing, he ensures that he surrounds himself in Madrid with two people of his utmost confidence and anticipates possible names for a future Government if the polls give a right-wing Presidency.
They leave the Galician Government Francisco Conde, until now first vice president, who heads the list of the PP to Congress for Lugo, and Rosa Quintana, responsible for Mar and now number 2 for Ourense. Both were key pieces of the Government and Rosa Quintana had even had in her portfolio since the first Feijóo Government in 2009, 14 years of experience as a manager that made her, together with Rueda, the oldest in the Xunta de Galicia.
With his jump to the Congress of Deputies, Rueda has been forced to make a change of cards with five movements and the promotion of the leader from A Coruña, Diego Calvo, who joined the Government with the departure of Feijóo and is now promoted to first vice president and responsible of the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Sports.
Another change comes with Ángeles Vázquez, until now responsible for the Environment, Territory and Housing and who from now on will add a new competition, second vice presidency. She will be the first woman in the position.
Conde’s march distributes its powers between Diego Calvo (the first vice presidency) and María Jesús Lorenzana, until now responsible for Employment and who happens to assume the area of ??Economy.
When Rueda took over from Feijóo in 2022, he only incorporated Diego Calvo into his Executive and now he adds two new faces to his team, Alfonso Villares, until now mayor of Cervo (Lugo) in Mar and Elena Rivo in Employment Promotion and Equality.
With a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Villares practiced that profession between 1996 and 2007 and since 1995 he has been part of the Cervo Corporation, first as a councilor and since 2007 as mayor. He won by an absolute majority for five consecutive terms and was re-elected on May 28, although he will no longer take office. He is also First Vice President of the Galician Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
Graduated in Economic and Business Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she received the extraordinary career award, Elena Rivo has been a professor and researcher in the Department of Business Organization and Marketing at the University of Vigo since 1999 and is currently the vice-rector of the Campus of Ourense from the University of Vigo. In the political sphere, she was deputy mayor, head of the Economy and Finance area in the Ourense City Council between 2003 and 2007.
Complete the Galician Government Miguel Corgos López-Prado in Hacienda and Public Administration; Ethel Vázquez in Infraestructuras y Movilidad; Román Rodríguez in Culture, Education, Professional Training and Universities; Julio García Comesaña en Sanidad; Fabiola García Martínez in Social and Youth Policy; and José González Vázquez in Medio Rural.
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