Oscar Lopez He will be the new Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service. Pedro Sanchez He is once again leading his closest collaborators to occupy the highest responsibilities of the State. The new minister, who will succeed the future governor of the Bank of Spain, Jose Luis Escriváwas until now the chief of staff of the president of the government. He landed in La Moncloa in 2021, after the abrupt cessation of Ivan Redondofrom Paradores.
Secretary General of the PSOE of Castilla y León between 2008 and 2012, and leader of the opposition in this autonomous community, Oscar Lopez has a long political career. With Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba As leader of the PSOE, he was secretary of the Socialist Organization, between 2012 and 2014, and spokesperson for the parliamentary group in Congress. A position from which he was relieved by Pedro Sánchez, in 2016, after not supporting him in the primaries to continue leading the party. He was saved by the current president in 2018, when he won the motion of censure that placed him at the head of the Paradores del Estado.
Next to Antonio Hernandowho was and will always be the number two in the government, Oscar Lopez and Pedro Sanchez were known in their time as the boys of Jose Blanco. The three of them, in their youth, often hung around the party’s then organization secretary, under the leadership of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. This is where they took their first steps in politics. The 2017 primaries, in which Sánchez competed Susana Diaz And Patxi LopezThey separated the paths of the three. Oscar Lopez was Diaz’s campaign manager. His appointment five years later as chief of staff upset Sánchez’s accused wife, Begoña Gómez, who, as her relatives explained at the time, “didn’t understand it.”
José Luis Escriva maintains his working day in Barcelona this Wednesday, with meetings with two new advisors of Salvador Illawhile waiting for the government to formalize his appointment as the next governor of the Bank of Spain. The Minister of Economy and Commerce, Carlos Body, will defend his candidacy this afternoon before the Economy Commission of the Congress of Deputies. It is expected that tomorrow his appointment will be published in the Official State Gazette.
The nomination, put forward by The countrywill come into effect in the coming days, when Escriva leaves office and assumes his new duties.
Diego Rubio, new chief of staff
Oscar Lopez will in turn be relieved, as chief of staff of the president, by Diego Rubiocurrent Secretary General for Public Policy, European Affairs and Strategic Foresight of the Presidency of the Government since 2023. Rubio had previously served as Director of the country’s National Foresight and Strategy Office.
Rubio, Sánchez’s regular companion on his trips around the world, has gained the president’s trust in recent years. That is why the socialist general secretary opted for him instead of Pilar Sanchez Acerachief of staff of the new Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service. The name of the former Madrid MP had been mentioned several times to lead the presidential cabinet.
