Ximo Puig renounces his senatorial status and will be appointed tomorrow as a new ambassador to the OECD

The former president of the Valencian Generalitat Ximo Puig has registered the resignation of his senatorial record this Monday afternoon. The still general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE has presented his resignation from the position he accepted last July after losing the presidency of the Valencian government, as sources close to him have confirmed to Europa Press. In this sense, the Council of Ministers will approve at its ordinary meeting this Tuesday the appointment of Puig as the new permanent delegate ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), replacing the also former socialist leader Manuel Escudero Zamora, they have pointed out political sources to Europa Press. Puig has sent a letter to the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó, to communicate his resignation as territorial senator: “I want to express my gratitude to the chamber that you preside over and extend it to the deputies that make up it for having conferred upon me the honor of representing our territory in the Senate during the first months of this legislature,” he stated. “I wish that we continue working, from the autonomous communities, to transform the Senate into an authentic chamber of territorial representation that helps to better understand the polyphonic diversity of Spain and more adequately addresses the territorial and social cohesion of our society,” he added. . Puig will officially cease to be general secretary of the Valencian socialists at the Congress at the end of March, in which Diana Morant will be proclaimed general secretary, after being the only candidate who managed to collect the necessary endorsements. POLITICAL AMBASSADORS In this way, the appointment of the former Valencian president as ambassador to the OECD joins the former ministers Héctor Gómez and Miquel Iceta respectively as new permanent representatives of Spain before the UN in New York and before UNESCO, a decision that generated discomfort among the diplomats, who regretted the lack of international experience of both to hold these positions that require a technical profile. In addition, they warned of the impact that politicians copying these types of destinations may have on Spain’s image. Also the former Minister of Health, the socialist Carmen Montón, was appointed representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, while the former leader of the PSOE Manuel Escudero Zamora, who will take over from Ximo Puig, is in the OECD. To these we must add the former Minister of Education Isabel Celáa as ambassador to the Holy See and Ángel Martín Peccis in Cuba.