La Xunta will start 2026 with new faces at the head of different departments. Relay for layoffs at their own request, wanted to emphasize Rueda, announcing, among other things, three changes in the Medio Rural which broke away from the last wave of fires.
From the general management … Monte Defense –“a particularly complicated situation in recent months”, the president recognized – Manuel Rodríguez leaves and Manuel Francisco enters. Luisa Piñeiro arrives at the General Directorate of Forest Planning and Management of José Luis Chan; and at the general technical secretariat of the ministry, Jorge Atán will be replaced by Marta Forés.
However, The opposition sees these changes as an acknowledgment of failure in the management of the fires that devastated the province of Ourense last summer.
The spokesperson for the Rural Environment of the BNG, Secundino Fernández, believes that these dismissals admit “the erroneous and negative policy that the Xunta of the Popular Party is leading with territorial planning, with agroforestry production and with the defense of our rural environment against forest fires”, at the same time as considers the “second level face change” insufficient because “they are currently avoiding the head of the ministry”, whom they accuse of having adopted policies which led to “disaster”.
Socialist spokesperson for forest policy, Carmen Dacosta, says that “the layoffs announced now are not a surprise”, but rather “confirmation that something was done wrong and that the warnings we have been issuing for months were more than justified. He sees in María José Gómez “a minister without direction, supported by a president who looks the other way.”
Rueda also revealed the departure of veteran José Ramón Lete Lasa, the Secretary General of Sports, who will be replaced by Roberto García; that of Julián Cerviño, boss of Amtega, who will be replaced by Damián Rey; and there will be a new general director of fisheries, aquaculture and technological innovation, Isaac Rosón, who will replace Cándido Rial. The president of the Xunta assured that this is not an “amendment” to the work of any of them, with which he said he was “very satisfied”.
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