Antonio Hernando, Secretary of State for Telecommunications, and María González Veracruz, Secretary for Digitalization

The change of head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Service, which is now occupied by Óscar López, will also involve a dance in several of the state secretariats that depend on this ministry. As a first measure, López is taking with him the person who until now was the Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, Antonio Hernandowhich according to Europa Press, from now on will be the new Secretary of State for Telecommunications.

In turn, Maria Gonzalez Veracruzwho until now occupied the secretariat that will now be passed on to Hernando, will be the new Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA)As for Mayte Ledo, who until now held the position of secretary, which will be passed on to González Veracruz, she will go with Jose Luis Escrivá to the Bank of Spain, an entity of which he was appointed governor a few days ago, to occupy a position in his team.

Antonio Hernando, former spokesman for the PSOE Parliamentary Group, was an advisor to the PSOE Federal Executive Committee between 2001 and 2004, first in the Secretariat of Social and Migration Policies, and then in the Secretariat of Organisation. He later joined the Federal Executive Committee of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, as Secretary of Municipal Policy.

In Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba’s Commission he was Secretary for Institutional Relations and Regional Policy, and in 2004 he was elected deputy. In May 2019 he left his seat and founded the consultancy firm Acento, of which he was a partner until 2021. He therefore has extensive political experience, although in the field of telecommunications and technology he has much less than his two predecessors in the position he is going to occupy.

As for María González Veracruz, a graduate in biochemistry from the University of Murcia, she was a member of parliament between 2011 and 2019 and in autumn 2022 she became Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, when she was still part of the Ministry of Economy. Later, in a restructuring of ministerial portfolios, she was placed under the Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Before being appointed Secretary of State, she was a Counselor of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), and before being a deputy, she was a Secondary School Physics and Chemistry Teacher. During the 10th Legislature she held the position of Technology spokesperson for the PSOE parliamentary groupand during the following year he was its Spokesperson for Science and Innovation.