The second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, announced yesterday the signing, as number two on the list of Sumar per Madrid, of the diplomat Agustín Santos Maraver, current ambassador of Spain to the United Nations and former chief of staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Ángel Moratinos during the second government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2008-2011).
Díaz emphasized the political personality of Santos in his commitment to human rights, to the fight against the climate emergency and to the multilateral conception of international relations.
Agustín Santos Maraver (Los Angeles, 1955) participated in the student movement against Francoism. He studied Philosophy and Letters and Political Sciences and Sociology. In 1982 he began his diplomatic career. He has been assigned to the Spanish embassies in Beijing, Havana, Washington – where he closely followed the Central American peace negotiations – Canberra, the Representation of Spain before the European Union, and he has been consul general in Cape Town and Perpignan , where he particularly dealt with the recovery of the democratic memory of the Spanish Republican exile. He has been Spain’s ambassador to the international organizations and institutions of the United Nations in Geneva and permanent representative of Spain to the United Nations since September 2018.
In Madrid he has been chief of staff of the Spanish Development Cooperation Agency, adviser to the diplomatic department of Moncloa with Felipe González, parliamentary adviser and chief of staff to Miguel Ángel Moratinos at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the government of former president José Luis Rodríguez-Zapatero.
Faced with the insistence of some members of Podemos to review the agreement signed on Friday, which excluded the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and Vice President Díaz, who participated yesterday in Luxembourg in the Employment Council, Politics Social, Health and Consumers (EPSCO), they also asked him about the possibility of modifying the lists signed by the purple formation and he closed the chapter: “The Spanish want us to provide solutions to their problems, I think the rest do not have too much interest”.
Pablo Iglesias, however, insisted yesterday from RAC1 with a warning: “If he doesn’t rectify it, it will weigh heavily on him”.
