He will become Secretary of State for Transport in the new government of Pedro Sánchez. All indications are that the first Socialist mayor will leave office on Monday, and on Tuesday the Council of Ministers of Spain will approve his appointment.
José Antonio Santano will leave the mayor’s office of Irun (Gipuzkoa) after 21 years in office, and will do so to work in the Ministry of Transport of the Spanish Government.
Oscar Puente, newly appointed Minister of Transport of the executive branch, has asked Santano to be his number two, and he decided to take up the challenge yesterday. Days earlier, after assuming the new portfolio, Santano congratulated his good friend Puente through social networks, a personal harmony that began in the internal campaign in favor of Sánchez.
The hitherto mayor of the PSE-EE will become Secretary of State in the new government of Pedro Sánchez and will have to deal with issues such as the high-speed train or the transfer of the Cercanías service to the Basque government and that of Rodalíes to Catalonia.
The news is also an achievement for the Basque socialists, who, despite having a strongman in Congress, Patxi López, were left out of Sánchez’s government.
Everything points to the first socialist mayor He will leave office on Monday and Spain’s Council of Ministers will approve his appointment on Tuesday
For its part, the PSE must elect Santano’s successor as mayor of Irun. Among those who would a priori be the natural replacements, the deputy mayors Miguel Ángel Paez and Cristina Laborda, it seems that number two, Laborda, will most likely usher in a new era in the Irun City Council.
Source: EITB
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