Law graduate, marketing expert and president of the Footwear Association, a key economic sector of the Valencian Community: Marián Cano (La Nucía, 1969) is Carlos Mazón’s first signature for his reconstruction government, a political attempt to turn the page on the tragedy which struck the Valencian regions on October 29. She will be appointed Minister of Industry and Tourism to replace Núria Montes, dismissed from office following her controversial statements regarding the victims of DANA.
The Valencian president maintains his interest in Alicante with the signing of the executive president of the Valencian Association of Footwear Entrepreneurs (AVECAL) since 2015. Cano, sister of Bernabé Cano, mayor of La Nucía, a man very close to the president, was The Mazón’s bet on the PP lists for the European elections. She ranked 26th on the popular lists, the only Valencian with Esteban González Pons, another sure value of the party. Cano was far from being an MEP.
While Montes responded to a profile focused on tourism promotion, which the PP executive has constantly defended, after the meteorological disaster, the Valencian leader points to the other pole: he chooses a representative of the industry, specifically from a sector deeply rooted in the territory. , which symbolizes this idea of reconstruction. Its task will be fundamental in the recovery of small businesses – more than 5,000 affected in Horta Sud – and industrial areas, with strategic enclaves like Riba-Roja or Alaquás destroyed, as well as the surrounding commercial areas.
In a press release, the Executive highlights his long professional career. The footwear sector is one that she knows: it began in 2010 when she was appointed general secretary of the Association of Footwear Industrialists of Elche (AICE); In 2020 she assumed the interim presidency of the Federation of Spanish Footwear Industries (FICE), which she held until 2022, and since then she has been Secretary General of FICE (Federation of Spanish Footwear Industries). the shoe). In 2023, she was appointed member of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Alicante.
Among other representative bodies, he is also part of the Executive Committee of the Valencian Business Confederation (CEV), of the plenary session of the Social Dialogue Table of the Generalitat, member of the Valencian Observatory of Industry and Economic Sectors , of the General Assembly of the Spanish Confederation. of Business Organizations (CEOE) and the Assembly of the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (Cepyme), among other positions, as highlighted by the Executive.
