Yolanda DÃaz announced this Monday that AgustÃn Santos Maraver, the current Spanish ambassador to the United Nations, will be Sumar’s number two in Madrid ahead of the general elections to be held on July 23.
DÃaz herself was in charge of communicating it through social networks, which she considers “very good news.” “The defense of multilateralism, human rights and the global fight against climate change are key in Sumar,” she tweeted.
Santos Maraver, born in Los Angeles on August 21, 1955 and graduated in Philosophy and Letters and in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, has been Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the UN since August 4, 2018 in NY. Between 2011 and 2012 he was the permanent representative ambassador of Spain to the United Nations Office and International Organizations based in Geneva. He was director of the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Ãngel Moratinos from 2008 to 2011.
Santos Maraver entered the Spanish diplomatic career in 1982 and has also been Consul General of Spain in Cape Town (South Africa) and in Perpignan (France) and has held positions in various destinations, such as Washington D.C., Beijing, Canberra, Brussels and Havana.
With Santos Maraver at number two, the top five positions on the Sumar por Madrid list are clarified, since number three is the Sahrawi activist Tesh Sidi, fourth place will go to the leader of Más Madrid, Ãñigo Errejón, and fifth The position will be held by the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra.
