Elma Saiz, the minister in charge of pensions who arrived endorsed by Santos Cerdán, will be the new voice of the Government

Elma Saiz came to the Government just two years ago. With a profile then unknown in national politics, he had already held positions in the Navarrese Government and in the Pamplona City Council and traveled to Madrid to take charge of a a task as titanic as that of pensions endorsed by the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdántoday without political positions for being one of the main people investigated in the alleged corruption plot of the Koldo case. From now on, he will be the voice of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive, replacing Pilar Alegría.

Saiz was born in Pamplona in 1975 and is the mother of two children. Graduate in Law and Master’s Degree in Tax Consulting from the University of Navarra, she began her professional career in 1999 as managing partner of the IME consultancy. In the academic field, she was a collaborator in the Master’s Degree in Business Law and the Master’s Degree in Tax Consulting at the University of Navarra, as well as in the School of Legal Practice and in the Law degree at the same university center.

She began her political career as a deputy in the Navarrese Parliament in the legislature between 2003 and 2007. In the second legislature of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, she was Government delegate in Navarrabeing the youngest woman to hold this position, at only 32 years old.

In May 2019 it was candidate for mayor of Pamplonabut she did not succeed and remained as a councilor until her appointment in the Government of Pedro Sánchez in November 2023. She had previously been Minister of Economy and Finance in the Government of Navarra.

He came to the central Executive to replace José Luis Escrivá – today governor of the Bank of Spain – in the Inclusion, Social Security and Migration portfolio. As a veteran of Navarrese politics, when the Santos Cerdán case broke out last June it was one of the most asked socialists in this regard due to the common past in the PSN.

After the report of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard was published, Saiz said she felt surprised by the revelations about the former number three of the PSOE and that They hurt him “deeply” because they are “behaviors” that “were not at all imaginable”while defending the “forcefulness” with which, he said, the party has acted with respect to Cerdán and former minister José Luis Ábalos, now in preventive detention.