The new governor of the Bank of Spain, José Luis Escriva, and successor to Pablo Hernández de Cos, admitted that he would have been appointed governor even if he had been a government minister. “I think the roundest profile was probably me,” he said in an interview with Onda Cero. He denied having been the one who requested the appointment of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, to this position, although he argued that there had been “comings and goings” on this issue for a year.
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