The gap left by the current Government delegate in Catalonia, Maria Eugènia Gay, upon being designated as number two on Jaume Collboni’s electoral list for Barcelona in the next elections, will be filled by the current sub-delegate, Carlos Prieto, according to what El Newspaper this Tuesday and La Vanguardia has confirmed.
Prieto, current sub-delegate of the Government in Catalonia, will assume the position that Gay will leave to run in the elections a few months after the end of the legislature, a replacement that will be approved in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday.
The current sub-delegate is also a member of the national executive of the PSC and of the leadership of the socialist federation of the Catalan capital – he is Secretary of Organization of the PSC of Barcelona.
In this way, in the Government they once again trust a party person for the position, as happened with the previous delegate Teresa Cunillera, instead of opting for an independent profile, as happened with the signing of Gay. Prieto will assume the reins of the Government Delegation a few months after the legislature expires, which motivates a replacement of these characteristics.
The Council of Ministers this Tuesday will also approve the replacement at the head of the Government Delegation in Madrid. It will be Francisco Martín, current Secretary General of the Presidency, who will replace Mercedes González after she left office to take over the leadership of the Civil Guard, replacing María Gámez.
Martín, a trusted man of the President of the Government, is a member of the PSOE and has held the Presidency Secretariat since July 2021, before he was director of the Technical Cabinet of the secretariat and carried out organizational tasks in the PSOE manager in Madrid. But above all, a good part of the success of the organization of the NATO summit that took place in Madrid in June of last year is attributed to the new government delegate in the capital. Martí was in charge of coordinating the event as head of the Spanish Task Force in charge of its organization.
The third appointment to be approved by the Council of Ministers is that of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro as the new government delegate in Galicia. The socialist and former secretary general of the PSdeG between 2013 and 2016 returns to politics after the cases that he had open with the courts have been filed and that made him resign, including the one related to the so-called operation Octopus, which investigated alleged awards illegally charged to own funds and Feder funds.