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Héctor Gómez, former director general of Turespaña, new Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

MADRID, 27 Mar.

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Héctor Gómez, former director general of Turespaña, new Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

MADRID, 27 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The socialist deputy and former director general of Turespaña, Héctor Gómez Hernández, will be the new Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, replacing Reyes Maroto, who is leaving his position to be the socialist candidate for Madrid Mayor's Office in the next municipal elections in May .

This was announced this Monday in an institutional statement by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has praised the "extraordinary" management carried out by Maroto at the head of the Ministry of Industry, as well as the profile and "experience" of his replacement, Héctor Gómez, former spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group and current president of the Constitutional Commission of the Congress of Deputies.

Born in November 1978 and graduated in Law, with a degree in Labor Sciences and a Diploma in Tourism, Gómez has developed his professional career in the private and public sectors.

A member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands between 2015 and 2018, he was the general director of Turespaña in 2018 and 2019, the year in which he was elected a member of Congress for the Tenerife constituency.