The Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service, Oscar Lopezchose Antonio Hernandountil now deputy director of the Office of the Presidency of the Government and his closest collaborator during his mandate Moncloaas the new Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, who will replace Maria Gonzalez Veracruzas EL ESPAÑOL was able to confirm.
Veracruz will in turn be appointed new Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, a position held until now by Maite Ledo.
These changes, which should be approved tomorrow by the Council of Ministers, come after the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezappointed Oscar Lopez as the new Minister of Digital Transformation a few weeks ago, replacing Jose Luis Escriváwho left his post to become governor of the Bank of Spain.
Lopez, who before his appointment as minister was director of Pedro Sánchez’s Cabinet, thus signs for his department to his right in Moncloa, where they both found themselves after distancing themselves from Pedro Sánchez.
Hernando, until now deputy director of the cabinet of the presidency of the government, has been a member of the PSOE since 1995 and was spokesman for the socialist parliamentary group, with Pedro Sánchez already as secretary general of the party.
Between 2001 and 2004 he worked as an advisor to the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE, first in the Secretariat of Social and Migration Policies and later in the Secretariat of the Organization headed by José Blanco. At the XXXVII Federal Congress of the PSOE he joined the Federal Executive Commission of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as Secretary of Municipal Policy.
At the following PSOE Congress, he held the position of Secretary of Institutional Relations and Autonomous Policy in the Executive led by Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and, in 2004, he was elected deputy for Madrid, remaining in the Congress of Deputies until May 2019.
As a member of parliament, he was a member of the Commission of Inquiry into the 11-M attacks. He was also the spokesman for the socialist parliamentary group in the committees on immigration and emigration, the interior and national security.
