The government already has the name ready to complete the renovation of the management of the Bank of Spain. Soledad Nunezwho was Secretary General of the Treasury under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, will be the new deputy governor of the Spanish supervisor, after being appointed for this purpose in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, as EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia learned.
The new number two José Luis Escriva has been a member of the Executive Committee and the Governing Council of the Bank of Spain since 2018, when he joined on the proposal of Nadia Calviño.
With this movement, Executive aims to appoint two most important positions in the regulatorafter the Popular Party decided to abandon negotiations for not approving Escrivá’s election as governor. Traditionally, the names of both positions have been agreed between the government and the opposition.
Soledad Núñez (Badajoz, 1957) was about to take up the post of vice-governor twelve years ago. In 2012, this doctor of economics was vetoed by the Popular Partyand then to the Government, when the renewal of the organization was undertaken that brought Luis Linde to the presidency of the governor of the Bank of Spain. The PP considered that Núñez was too politicized for this position.
The new deputy governor She was Director General of Economic Policy of the Moncloa Economic Office between 2004 and 2005.from where he joined the General Directorate of the Treasury, a position he held until 2011. He is also a person who has been part of the Bank of Spain for years, since he became a supervisor in the late 80s.
