Raül Blanco would be the new president of Renfe and David Lucas, the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, whose positions can be permitted on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, based on sources from that ministry have confirmed to Efe.
Blanco will substitute Isaías Taboas and Lucas will substitute Isabel Pardo de Vera, who on Monday introduced that they had been leaving their positions after the controversy over the contracting of the brand new metric gauge trains for Cantabria and Asturias.
Lucas, born in Madrid in 1968 and a PhD in Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid, is Secretary General of the Urban Agenda and Housing. He has been a senator for Madrid within the XII legislature, mayor of Móstoles and spokesman for the PSOE within the Madrid City Council and deputy mayor of Getafe.
He has additionally been president of the Spanish delegation on the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, in addition to of the International Relations Commission of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, accountable for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Spanish municipalities. .
Blanco, for his half, was Secretary General of Industry and SMEs till the tip of final 12 months, when he was relieved of his place after the controversy over the delay of the PERTE of the electrical automotive. Graduated in Economics, he has been director of Economic Development and Employment on the City Council of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, in addition to supervisor of Industrial Strategy on the Generalitat de Catalunya, the place he labored with the outgoing president of Renfe.
Raül Blanco, who has an extended historical past related to the PSC, has performed the principle function of interlocutor between the Government and the automotive sector. Furthermore, he has maintained glorious relations with the regional governments, unions and the enterprise world normally. His dialogue character, accessibility and suppleness in fixing issues are extremely valued by these sectors.
resignations
The failure within the measures of the brand new trains in Asturias and Cantabria has derailed in a disaster within the Ministry of Transport. The Secretary of State of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and former president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera and the president of Renfe, Isaías Taboas, have submitted their resignation to the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, because of the ruling within the Cantabria and Asturias practice challenge, who has accepted them.
The resignations come time after the governments of Cantabria and Asturias complained that the measurements of the projected trains didn’t match within the tunnels.