Santiago de Compostela (EFE) Ames (A Coruña) and, later, develop a profile in the autonomous field as a delegate of the Government in Galicia.
Miñones, like his father, has a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela and obtained a doctorate in the same specialty with an extraordinary award in 2001.
He has also been a researcher in the ‘Parga Pondal’ regional program from 2005 to 2011 and a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics with teaching at the USC Faculty of Pharmacy.
In the political field, he began his career in the Ames City Council (A Coruña) when Carlos Fernández included him on his lists as an independent in the 2007 elections, although he did not enter the government until 2009, as Councilor for Education.
It was already in the 2015 municipal elections when he led the PSdeG candidacy in Ames and was sworn in as mayor, where he presided over a tripartite government, in which he hardened dialogue and negotiation with different formations.
After six years as councilor in the City Council with the youngest average age in all of Galicia, in March 2021 he was appointed Government delegate.
From the Government delegation it was proposed to respond to the challenges of Galicia with “dialogue, consensus, institutional loyalty and tranquility” and focus on municipal problems in the territory to make a policy close to the people.
Precisely Miñones, member of the Executive of the Galician PSOE, is a faithful defender of the policies of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to whom, in addition to an ideological coincidence, he is united by a close friendship.
In fact, the new Minister of Health was one of the main backers of Sánchez in Galicia and even one of the few who was involved in the primaries in favor of Sánchez and against Susana Díaz.
Since then, the two leaders have always maintained direct and personal contact.
Miñones’ jump to Madrid does not take anyone by surprise since it has been a continuous rumor for months in which it was commented that he was preparing his march to the state capital since it is the place where both his wife currently resides, as well as pharmacist, like her daughter, who is studying there, while her son is waiting to finish his studies in Galicia.
During his time at the head of the Government Delegation, Miñones has maintained a dialogue and discreet profile, always seasoned with the point of color given by the patterned and colored socks that he always wears to combine and brighten up the sober suits he wears daily. .
The pharmacist assumes the Health portfolio at a time of enormous convulsion in the sector, especially in primary care, which has been chaining strikes throughout Spain due to the exhaustion of its situation, that not even the injection of 1,000 million in the Budgets of This year, neither the creation of new university places in Medicine nor in Specialized Health Training (FSE) seem sufficient to improve it.
In addition to dealing with the precariousness of doctors, Miñones has another challenge ahead on which there is unanimity: that of betting on and definitively strengthening public health in the face of the new threats that, apart from covid-19, are already here, materializing real measures beyond the announced creation of a state agency and a surveillance network.
It also remains to be seen if he will give the definitive impetus to the tightening of the anti-smoking law, the draft of which has been waiting for months in a drawer waiting for its approval, or if during his term the medicinal use of cannabis will be definitively regulated, which had to be ready at the end of last year by mandate of Congress but is already three months behind schedule.