[Portrait] The sovereign ministers of the Sánchez II government
(B2) If the Ministers of Defense and the Interior remain in their posts, there are two new arrivals among the sovereign ministers of the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez. Portraits
The new coalition government (PSOE-Unidas Podemos) led by Pedro Sanchez (PSOE) was invested by a narrow majority of 2 votes (167 votes 'for', 165 votes 'against', 18 abstentions) by Congress on Tuesday (7 January), thanks to the votes of the Basque Nationalist Party (communicated). It held its first meeting on Tuesday (January 14).
The sovereign portfolios (Foreign Affairs, Justice, Defense, Interior, Finance) are all in the hands of the PSOE. The two ministers in charge of the 'force', Defense Minister Margaritas Robles, and Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska are reappointed (portraits, read: The Spanish government formed: the new names to know in the sovereign ministries). Two new ones are arriving, in Foreign Affairs and Justice.
A close friend of Pascal Lamy at Foreign Affairs: Arancha González Laya
Originally from the Spanish Basque Country, born in 1969, Arancha González Laya graduated in law from the University of Navarre and the University Carlos III in Madrid. She also began her career in this field, as a partner at the law firm Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) from 1994 to 1996.
After passing the competitive examination for European civil servants, she joined the services of the European Commission, in DG Commerce (Trade), in particular. In June 2002, she became spokesperson and cabinet member of the French Commissioner for Trade, Pascal Lamy. Following a short return to DG Trade, she joined her boss in Geneva, when he was appointed Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in September 2005, to be his chief of staff and his sherpa for eight years. In the fall of 2013, she became director of the International Trade Center (ITC), a position she held when she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Separate article to come...
An Andalusian judge, former Secretary of State for Justice: Juan Carlos Campo Moreno
A judge from Andalusia, Juan Carlos Campo Moreno has been a deputy since 2016 and is familiar with Spanish judicial administration. He was in fact Secretary of State (senior civil servant position) for Justice under the socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2009 to 2011) as well as administrator of the General Council of the Judicial Power (2001-2008).
At the political level, he engaged with the Andalusian socialist governments. First as Director General of Relations with the Administration of Justice on behalf of the Autonomous Government (1997-2001), then as Secretary General of the Andalusian Government for Relations with the Parliament of the Autonomous Community (2014-2015).
Born in 1961, he passed the magistrate exam in 1987 and subsequently worked in Cádiz as a judge intermittently until 2016. He has a doctorate in law from the University of Cádiz and also gives courses at this university as well. than at the Andalusian Inter-University Institute of Criminology.
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