José Miñones | |
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.jpg.webp) José Miñones in 2023 | |
| Minister of Health of Spain | |
| In office 28 March 2023 – 21 November 2023 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Carolina Darias |
| Succeeded by | Mónica García |
| Delegate of the Government in Galicia | |
| In office 30 March 2021 – 28 March 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Javier Losada de Azpiazu |
| Succeeded by | José Ramón Gómez Besteiro |
| Mayor of Ames | |
| In office 13 June 2015 – 29 March 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Santiago Amor |
| Succeeded by | Blas García |
| Member of the Ames City Council | |
| In office 16 June 2007 – 29 March 2021 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 17 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | A Coruña |
| Personal details | |
| Born | José Manuel Miñones Conde 17 July 1972 Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Political party | PSOE |
| Alma mater | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Occupation | Politician, university professor |
José Manuel Miñones Conde (born 17 July 1972) is a Spanish politician and university professor of the Spanish Socialist Party who served as minister of Health between March and November 2023. Previously, he served as delegate of the Government in the Galicia region from 2021 to 2023.
Biography
Miñones Conde was born in the city of Santiago de Compostela on 17 July 1972 from José Miñones Trillo, doctor of Pharmacy and politician in the area of Galicia and María Mercedes Conde Mouzo.[1]
Like his father, he studied pharmacy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and graduated in 1997. He received his doctorate cum laude in 2001 with an Extraordinary Mention. He is a professor of Physical Chemistry at the USC School of Pharmacy and a researcher, participating in the Galician Isidro Parga Pondal program.[2]
Political career
He was elected in the 2007 Spanish local elections as councillor of the municipality of Ames (La Coruña) and during that legislature he was councillor for Administrative Reform, Administration Quality, New Technologies and Health. He was re-elected in the 2011 Spanish local elections and in 2012 he was appointed spokesperson of the Socialist Local Group. Re-elected again in 2015, he was appointed mayor of Ames after an agreement with minor political groups.[3] He was elected for a second term as mayor in 2019.[4]
He resigned in March 2021[5] after being appointed by prime minister Pedro Sánchez as delegate of the Government in the Galicia region.[6][7]
Health minister
On 27 March 2023, the Prime Minister announced his appointment as minister of Health, replacing Carolina Darias, who was leaving the office to focus on the local campaign for the mayorship of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.[8][9]
References
- ↑ "Fallece la madre del delegado del Gobierno en Galicia, José Miñones". Europa Press. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ López, Adriana (2023-03-27). "José Manuel Miñones Conde, nuevo ministro de Sanidad". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "El socialista José Miñones, nuevo alcalde de Ames". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2015-06-13. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "Ames tendrá un gobierno tripartito". www.elcorreogallego.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "Miñones renuncia como alcalde de Ames para ser delegado del Gobierno en Galicia". andaluciainformacion.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "Así es José Miñones, el nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Galicia que empezó en una asociación de vecinos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2021-03-29. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "Un doctor en Farmacia, nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Galicia". Redacción Médica (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ 20minutos (2023-03-27). "Sánchez sitúa a Héctor Gómez al frente del Ministerio de Industria y a José Manuel Miñones, en Sanidad". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "José Manuel Miñones, el nuevo ministro de Sanidad y fiel escudero de Sánchez". www.larazon.es (in Spanish). 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2023-03-27.