Isabel Pardo de Vera and Isaías Táboas already have substitutes at the head of the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and Renfe after their departures due to the crisis with the measures of the trains of Cantabria and Asturias. Both will be replaced David Lucas and Raül Blanco, respectively.
In the case of the public railway operator, the Government has decided to re-fish Blanco despite his failure at the helm of the Electric Vehicle Strategic Project (Perte Vec). At the end of December, the Government decided to remove the leadership of the Ministry of Industry responsible for this project, which included the removal of Blanco as Secretary General of Industry and SMEs and his replacement by the Asturian senator Francisco Blanco, given the slowness with which the funds were being allocated. The Perte VEC left last year plus 2,000 million euros of the total of 2,975 that it had budgeted without assigning, which felt very badly in the sector, annoyed with the significant obstacles that had been placed to obtain aid for the projects, which were required to present 100% guarantees. The automotive sector also showed its discontent with the Government itself, which was working on future calls so that these aids for the renewal of the automobile industry would reach the sector as soon as possible.
With a degree in Economics, Blanco has also been director of Economic Development and Employment at the Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council, as well as manager of Industrial Strategy at the Generalitat of Catalonia, where he worked with the outgoing president of Renfe. After leaving the position of general director of Industry, Blanco became the General Directorate of the School of Industrial Organization Foundation, a public organization also linked to this ministry. Although he does not have experience in the railway sector, shared functions in the Generalitat of Catalonia with his predecessor in office between 2007 and 2010when the previous president of Renfe was general director of the presidency of the Generalitat.
David LucasFor his part, born in Madrid in 1968 and a PhD in Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid, he is the Secretary General of the Urban Agenda and Housing, from where he has largely managed the new Housing Law that has not yet seen the light of day. in the Congress of Deputies. He has been a senator for Madrid in the XII legislature, mayor of Móstoles and spokesman for the Socialist Party in the Madrid City Council and deputy mayor of Getafe. He has also been president of the Spanish delegation at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, as well as of the International Relations Commission of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Spanish municipalities. .