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Foreign Affairs has already requested the approval of the Holy See, and will grant it, the Government hopes, in a few weeks and without too many problems
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Celaá, the target of attacks from the right for the repeal of the ‘Wert law’, replaces Carmen de la Peña, who landed in Rome in 2018
Pedro Sánchez wants his Prime Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, to become Spain’s new ambassador to the Holy See, a strategic legation, one of the most important, delicate and with the greatest political weight. The Foreign Ministry has already requested the mandatory plea from the Vatican, which will have to respond within a period that the Government hopes will not be long, so that Celaá could land in Rome in a few weeks. The Executive does not foresee friction and trusts that, consequently, the change in the Spanish representation before the Pope will take place soon.
The news, advanced by ‘elDiario.es’, and confirmed by government sources to this newspaper, represents a first-rate accommodation to the minister who was fought hard by the right for having promoted the repeal of the ‘Wert law’ through a new standard, the Lomloe, which is now developing its successor. Celaá left the Executive in the profound remodeling of the Cabinet that Sánchez undertook on July 10, after Celaá carried out the draft organic law on Professional Training, which reached the Cortes in September. The Basque socialist was replaced by the Aragonese Pilar Alegría. His replacement was expected: Celaá (Bilbao, 1949) had entered the Council of Ministers in June 2018, with the landing of the socialist leader to Moncloa (he also appointed him spokesman for the Executive, a position he lost with the signing of the coalition , in January 2020), and his departure matched the president’s intention to rejuvenate his team and bring in new faces.
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Celaá will replace Carmen de la Peña in the Vatican, appointed ambassador on October 26, 2018. De la Peña (Madrid, 1952), is going to retire soon, and treasures a career very different from that of her successor. She entered the diplomatic career in 1979 and has been stationed at the embassies of Beijing, Brasilia, London and Tel Aviv and at the Consulate General in Bern, and was ambassador to Ethiopia, Seychelles, Djibouti, Qatar and permanent observer to the African Union before leading the diplomatic representation to the Holy See.
Sánchez now chooses, after De la Peña’s three years in office, a woman of an opposite profile. Much more political. Celaá, graduated in Philosophy and Letters (specializing in English Philology) and in Law and full professor of the Baccalaureate of English, was Minister of Education and Universities in the Basque Government chaired by Patxi López (2009-2012), deputy in Parliament of Vitoria and in Congress, Director of the Cabinet of Ramón Jáuregui when he was Minister of Justice, Economy, Labor and Social Security of the Basque Executive (1995-1998), Deputy Minister of Education and Vice President of the Euskadi School Council and President by delegation of the Council Basque of Formation (1991-1995). A whole political career dedicated to educational policy, which culminated in his entry into the Ministry of Education and Professional Training in June 2018, a position that he made compatible with that of spokesperson until January of last year, when María Jesús Montero inherited that plot.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com