Overview
- Fabiola García stepped down as conselleira de Política Social on Sunday to appear as number two on the PP’s Congress list for the A Coruña constituency.
- The resignation was timed to meet electoral rules that bar serving conselleiros from standing and to hit the candidate-list deadline that closes Monday.
- President Alfonso Rueda will name García’s replacement after the ordinary Consello de la Xunta on Monday and the new conselleiro or conselleira is due to take office on Tuesday.
- The incoming minister will inherit active responsibilities left by García, most notably the 2027 budget project the Xunta has just submitted to the regional Parliament.
- The move follows a pattern of the PP recruiting Xunta officials for national lists and comes alongside the party’s placement of Parliament president Miguel Santalices on the Senate list, with some sources differing on his exact ranking.