Alberto Núñez Feijóo supported the renewal of the PP leadership with four women. Two of them, young people under 40 years old. The popular leader will propose today to the Executive Committee of his party Paloma Martín as vice-secretary of Sustainable Development, Ester Muñoz as vice-secretary of Health and Education, Ana Alós as vice-secretary of Equality and Conciliation and Noelia Núñez as vice-secretary of Mobilization and Digital Challenge.
On the other hand, Borja Sémper will be the spokesperson for the national leadership of the party, a position that he had been holding implicitly since Feijóo rescued him into politics, but without officially naming him.. This will mean a contrast and a counterweight: Miguel Tellado will be the tough voice in Congress and the Basque leader, the moderate one in the party.. Sémper will also continue to lead the Culture area, and will reinforce the communication of the popular people from a spokesperson that he wants to turn into a political wishbone for the party and not just a commissioned representation.
It must be emphasized that his appointment was not expected to be made official this Wednesday, but sources close to Feijóo confirmed it in the halls of Congress, to the surprise of Sémper himself.. Be that as it may, the fact that the San Sebastian native is going to be in charge of the party's speech is a declaration of intentions complementary to the flinty toughness that the PP is beginning to exhibit in Congress.. That dichotomy is not accidental.
16 people
The new PP Steering Committee will have 16 people (10 women and six men). Feijóo has replaced the deputy secretaries who have assumed responsibilities in the government bodies in Congress and Senate (Pedro Rollán and Carmen Navarro), and has created new deputy secretaries “to adapt the PP to the social reality of the country”, according to sources in Genoa.
The clearest change is the attempt to “feminize” the party. As this newspaper announced, the internal analysis of the Genoa leadership determined that one of the main reasons for not having met expectations in the general elections of 23-J was the lack of strength in the female electorate between 20 and 45 years old.. It is not a question of quota, PP sources explain, but rather of “feminizing” more the discourse and policies of the popular party.. It is not an operation of posturing, but of rectification.
Of course, one of the changes draws powerful attention: the creation of a deputy general secretary of Equality at the top of Genoa after promising to abolish the Ministry of Equality and after having amortized the departmental departments of the sector in no less than eight of the cities. in which the popular ones govern with Vox.
The new area of Sustainable Development, which will be directed by Paloma Martín (1970), will include competences in the environment, energy and housing, among others, “with the aim of improving the response of the PP to the challenges linked to climate change, the economy green and responsible urban development.
It will also coordinate policies linked to agriculture, livestock and fishing. Martín was Minister of Environment, Housing and Agriculture of the Community of Madrid. Now she is a senator.
The PP has united health and education in a single area to try to reinforce “its commitment to public policies, and enhance one of the key elements of this new political time”. Génova highlights that Ester Muñoz (1985), the new head of this vice-secretariat, “has management and parliamentary experience”. In addition, she was a senator between 2016 and 2019.. She has a degree in Law, with a bilingual postgraduate master's degree in international law.
The new deputy secretary of Equality and Conciliation, Ana Alós, “will continue to deepen the effective equality between men and women” and will also provide social services and inclusion. Alós (1969) has developed part of his professional career linked to this subject. Representative, former senator, former mayor of Huesca, she has a degree in Economics and a master's degree in Business Administration and Management from ICADE.
With the new deputy secretary of Mobilization and Digital Challenge, the PP aims to help generate new channels of interaction between citizens and politics, and will focus “especially” on the problems of excessive and non-responsible use of technology and social networks, especially detected at early ages. National representative Noelia Núñez (1992), councilor in the Fuenlabrada City Council, has a double degree in Law and Legal Sciences of Public Administrations.