Madrid (EFE) He was director of Turespaña.
Gómez (1978, Guía de Isora, Tenerife), who will replace Reyes Maroto at the head of this ministry, gained national media projection with his appointment as spokesman for the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies, a position that he finally held for less than a year. from September 2021 to July 2022.
Specifically, he was officially appointed parliamentary spokesperson to replace Adriana Lastra on September 8, 2021 and was replaced by Patxi López on July 23, 2022 during the extraordinary meeting of the PSOE Federal Committee, which Sánchez took advantage of to remodel the building. game.
This remodeling took place in a difficult situation for the party, after the poor results obtained in the Andalusian elections and between requests for a change of course by some Socialists, who demanded a “squire” with weight in Congress to stop the direct criticism of the president and avoid the erosion of his image before the next electoral cycle.
In his time as spokesman in Congress, Gómez faced key votes such as the 2022 budget or the labor reform, which went ahead in extremis thanks to the error of a PP deputy, and had to deal with moments of tension with the parliamentary partners of the Government provoked by issues such as political espionage of pro-independence leaders with the Pegasus system.
After his departure as spokesman, Gómez held the position of president of the Constitutional Commission of the Lower House, replacing his successor at the head of the socialist parliamentary group, Patxi López.
A trusted person of Sánchez, Gómez was one of his first supporters in the Canary Islands, where they have even taken the opportunity to play sports together on occasion during the president’s visits to the islands.
He has a degree in Labor Sciences, a degree in Law and a diploma in Tourism and began to develop his professional career in the area of reservations for tourist establishments.
In addition, he worked at the NHS hospital in Surrey (United Kingdom) and as a project technician in the Development department of the City Council of his hometown of Guía de Isora, in Tenerife.
He entered municipal politics through the PSOE lists of Guía de Isora in the 2003 municipal elections, a term in which he was councilor for Local Development and Youth.
Four years later, in the May 2007 elections, he renewed as councilor and took charge of the Department of Employment and Local Development and Tourism, and in the May 2011 elections he was re-elected again and in the corporation he held, until At the end of the mandate in 2015, the posts of second deputy mayor and delegate councilor for Employment, Local Development, Tourism and the Primary Sector.
In the regional elections of May 2015, he obtained a deputy act from the Parliament of the Canary Islands and was one of the members of the negotiating commission with the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) for the formation of the regional government.
When the Canary Islands parliament was constituted, he was elected second secretary of the Chamber, a position he left when he was appointed director of the Spanish Tourism Institute (Turespaña) at the end of June 2018, from which he ceased in March of the following year.
His jump to the Congress of Deputies came in the general elections of April 2019, in which he entered as a deputy for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a record that he kept after the electoral repetition of November.
In this last legislature, the XIV, he was initially spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the Defense, Budget and Mixed Committees for the European Union, as well as the Permanent Deputation.
In the PSOE he was part of the Executive Commission after the 39th Federal Congress of the party in June 2017, when he was elected as head of the Secretariat of International Relations, another of his areas of specialty.