Until now, the Government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, Tolón assumes the portfolio of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, replacing Pilar Alegría
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday the changes required in his Government due to the departure of Pílar Alegría and has revealed that the The new visible head of Sports will be Milagros Tolón, Until now, Government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha. Tolón will take charge of the Education, Vocational Training and Sports portfolio.
Apart from Tolón, Sánchez also announced that the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz will be the new Government spokesperson replacing Pilar Alegría, who left office to run as a socialist candidate in the February 8 elections in Aragon.
Regarding Milagros Tolón, the President of the Government, has highlighted that she has a degree in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid, a diploma in teaching from the University of Castilla-La Mancha and that she has been a teacher at the Toledo adult school, in addition to being the first female mayor of Toledo and a deputy in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha. She currently held the aforementioned position of Government delegate in this Castilian-La Mancha community.
Pedro Sánchez believes that, with this trajectory She has reasons to think that she is going to be a “great minister” of Education, Vocational Training and Sports.
Toulon will have to face a complicated period, in which Spain is immersed in the preparation of the 2030 Soccer World Cup, which Spain will organize together with Morocco and Portugal, and has on the table the challenges of continuing to develop the 2022 Sports Law and the approval of the Athlete Statute, which is now being processed by Congress.
Rodríguez Uribes welcomes you to Sports
Under her position, the president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, will continue to work, who has also had words of praise for the new minister.which highlights his “enormous capacity for work” and his “vocation for public service.” “I met Milagros Tolón when she was the mayor of Toledo and I was a minister. From the first moment I verified her enormous capacity for work and her vocation for public service. Today I will accompany her in her inauguration as minister. Congratulations, dear Milagros!!”, Rodríguez Uribes published on his social media profiles.
Milagros Tolón, who played her role this afternoon, was in charge of honoring Federico Martín Bahamontes in her capacity as mayor of Toledoa position she held between 2015 and 2023. The new minister accompanied the ‘eagle of Toledo’ on the tour he took after his feat through the historic center of the imperial city to the Miradero area, where he discovered the almost life-size bronze sculpture of his figure.
