The Diplomat
The former Minister of Culture and Sport Miquel Iceta will be appointed today by the Council of Ministers as Spain’s ambassador to the Education, Science and Culture Organisation (Unesco), based in Paris, according to Europa Press, citing government sources.
The government of Pedro Sánchez thus maintains the policy developed in the last legislature, by placing former ministers at the head of Spanish embassies abroad, mainly to international organisations.
In fact, Iceta, who was replaced as Minister of Culture by Ernest Urtasun, will take over as Spain’s permanent representative to UNESCO from José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, who was also Minister of Culture, and who was appointed in October 2021. It was precisely Iceta who replaced him at the head of the Department of Culture.
Other former ministers also occupy embassies abroad, such as the former Minister of Health Carmen Montón, at the Organisation of American States (OAS), or the former Minister of Education and government spokesperson, Isabel Celáa, at the Holy See.
On the other hand, according to The Diplomat, today’s Council of Ministers could appoint Eva Granados as the new State Secretary for International Cooperation, replacing Pilar Cancela, who will be appointed State Secretary for Migration.
Eva Granados, who was spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Senate, belongs to the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) and her appointment is interpreted in political circles as a way of compensating for the loss of weight of the Catalan Socialists, following the departure of Iceta’s government.
