The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has signed up the economist Carlos Martín Urriza, director of the economic cabinet of CC.OO., as an economic reference for the Sumar lists in the congressional elections on July 23, the formation has announced it’s a statement.
According to training sources cited by various media, Martín, who is also part of the group of experts for the reform of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage, will go to number 6 of Sumar for the Madrid constituency. behind Yolanda Díaz; the hitherto permanent ambassador of Spain to the United Nations, Agustín Santos Maraver, the Saharawi activist Tesh Sidi; the spokesperson for Más País in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, and the general secretary of Podemos and minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra.
Carlos Martín was already in charge of closing the list of Más Madrid headed by Mónica García in the recent regional elections in the Community of Madrid.
Martín is an associate professor in quantitative methods at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Alcalá de Henares, a member of the Economic and Social Council of Spain, the Council of the National Social Security Institute and the Economic Policy Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation .
At the same time, he has also published articles and studies and given courses and conferences on different areas of economic policy: macroeconomics, taxation, public budgets, the financing system of the Autonomous Communities, pensions, unemployment protection, the financial system, the labor market and immigration. .
The signing of Martín Urriza comes the day after Sumar appointed United Podemos MEP María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop as coordinator of the coalition’s electoral program, which was the acquisition of the former Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, for the European elections four years ago of 2019.
Precisely this Wednesday the Official State Gazette has published the dismissal of Agustín Santos Maraver, Spanish ambassador to the United Nations, to run in the general elections as number 2 of Sumar for Madrid.
