Ayuso places intermediate positions at the head of the ministries in a Government without Vice Presidency

The PP candidate for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has designed a totally renewed Government, in which she has risen to intermediate positions in the previous legislature and has dispensed with the Vice Presidency.

Thus, the Vice Minister of the Presidency, Miguel Ángel García, will lead the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration; the Deputy Minister for Educational Policy, Rocío Albert López-Ibor, will direct the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, and the Vice Minister of the Interior and director of the Madrid 112 Security and Emergency Agency, Carlos Novillo, will be in charge of the Ministry of Environment Environment, Land and Interior Planning.

In addition, Jorge Rodrigo, who was first vice president of the Madrid Assembly during the last legislature, will be the Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructures; the regional deputy Ana Dávila will be responsible for Family, Youth and Social Affairs while the general director of Information Systems and Digital Health, Miguel López-Valverde, will be that of Digitization.

Likewise, it has appointed Emilio Viciana, current vice-secretary of the State Public Procurement Advisory Board, as Minister of Education and Universities; the vice president of the Society for Safety and Quality in Radiology, Fátima Matute, in charge of Health and the director of Management of the Teatros del Canal, Mariano de Paco, has been appointed as Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports.

The Madrid leader herself has advanced it during her last intervention in the second session of the Investiture Plenary, which is held this Thursday at the Madrid Assembly. The new Madrid government, which will take office next Monday, will have nine ministries, the same as the current one, and the president has explained that they will eliminate the number of deputy ministries and general directorates with the aim of making an Executive "as austere as possible", which which is "identity sign of the PP".

"I am not changing the Government due to a lack of confidence, nothing further, or because I think that things have not been done well. I think that the work that all the councilors have done has brought us to this absolute majority and this is worthy of recognition" , has stressed the regional leader, who has flattered one by one all his former advisers.

Ayuso has defended that he modifies the Executive since he considers it "essential to renew". "I know that renewal gives us the strength and vertigo necessary to not live well off. And when we set ourselves challenges, we fuel our imagination", he continued. For the president, she begins a legislature in which it depends on them to "be up to the task" of the Community at the service of all, "but especially of Spain."

NEW AND MANAGEMENT PROFILES

Miguel Ángel García has a degree in Journalism and has management experience in different responsibilities in the regional government, since he has been Deputy Minister of Finance and Employment (2015-2019) and of the Presidency (2019-2023), as well as General Director of Coordination of the Dependency of the Community of Madrid (2008-2012).

For her part, Rocío Albert has a degree in Law and a PhD in Applied Economics. In the last Legislature, she has led the Vice Ministry of Educational Policy of the Community of Madrid in the Ministry of Education, where she already held the position of General Director of Teaching Quality Improvement and of Universities and Research.

She has also held positions of responsibility such as the Vice Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Consumption and is the author of numerous academic papers on topics related to Education, Economy and Innovation, Regulation and Public Policies published in prestigious international journals.

Emilio Viciana, graduated in Law and civil administrator of the State, until now he was the vice-secretary of the Advisory Board of Public Contracting of the State, attached to the Ministry of Finance and Public Function and has been the representative of the Kingdom of Spain in different work forums of the main international institutions: European Commission, United Nations, OECD or Council of Europe.

For his part, Carlos Novillo, an agronomist, is known for being part of the Fire Department and Civil Protection Service of the Community of Madrid through opposition and where he was promoted to chief officer. He has several legislatures of government experience in the regional Executive, where he has led the Vice Ministry of the Interior during the last Legislature, as well as the Directorate of the Madrid Security and Emergency Agency.

Another of the new faces in the ministries is that of Ana Dávila, a graduate in Psychology, with teaching and research experience in this field. She is currently a PP deputy in the Madrid Assembly and has also been Deputy Minister of Health Care and General Director of Humanization and Patient Care.

Miguel López-Valverde Argüeso, Senior Telecommunications Engineer and expert in new technologies and digitization, has developed his professional activity for more than 25 years in management and leadership positions related to Information and Communication Technologies in companies. In addition, he has been in this last Legislature the general director of Information Systems and Digital Health in the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid.

Jorge Rodrigo, graduated in Law, has been a PP deputy in the Assembly since 2019, where he has been first vice president and secretary of the Table. He has been part of the Government of the Community of Madrid in previous Legislatures as General Director of Relations and Coordinator of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid. At the municipal level, he has experience in different responsibilities in the Madrid City Council as managing director of Madrid Espacios y Congresos and Madrid Movilidad.

Fátima Matute, for her part, has a degree in Medicine and Surgery, a Medical Specialist in Radiodiagnosis. Since 2003 she has developed her activity in the Radiology department at the San Carlos Public Hospital, where she is currently coordinator of the Medical Imaging Laboratory. In recent years, she has collaborated with the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS) to implement the Quality Assurance Plan in the Community of Madrid 2022-2025 and unify the portfolio of radiology services.

The team led by President Mariano de Paco, a graduate in Law and a doctor in Spanish Literature who has been manager of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain and is currently Director of Management of Teatros del Canal, closes. De Paco has been Associate Artistic Director of the Circle Theater in New York, where he directed 65 classic and contemporary shows.