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Different. El confidencial digital has had access to the political and human profile that people who know him very well and for years have drawn of valeriano gómez, the most unknown minister of the new government. These are his notes: -- economist , 50 years old, from jaén, ugt activist , valeriano gómez is very experienced in facing poisoned commissions and has come out of all of them alive. -- very hardworking, discreet and little known , he has a lot of "Military", in addition to a well-furnished head: he is probably one of the two or three economists in spain who "Really know" the labor market. -- gómez had no interest in being a minister . None. He lived very comfortably as a professor at the ortega y gasset foundation, and he had said until two days ago that he did not want to return to front-row politics, because “they burn you alive.” -- he emerged scalded from his position as secretary general of employment , with minister jesús caldera in labor. -- only zapatero's very strong pressure , his sense of discipline, and the conviction that he could help bridge the gap between the government and the unions has led him to accept.



He has been a shadow advisor to the ugt and the psoe for many years . He worked in the kitchens of the ugt, the psoe and in the governments of felipe gonzález. In the socialist party he has acted as a 'firefighter' several times, always with success. The Special Database psv cooperative was liquidated -- as an advisor on labor, to ministers like chaves and griñán , he was tasked with liquidating labor cooperatives in ruin, and doing so without scandal. -- had to resolve the bankruptcy of psv , the failed ugt housing cooperative. -- as judicial administrator of the psv, he finished the homes, closed the cooperative and won the lawsuit for fraud against the psv and the ugt brought by the cooperative members. -- the supreme court exonerated the cooperative and the ugt of all responsibility, although it sentenced the manager, carlos sotos , as responsible for the scandal, for negligence in management, to two years in prison, which he did not serve because he did not have a criminal record. Relationship with unions -- he has been chosen by zapatero because developing labor reform and pension reform requires a man who understands the unions and knows the employers well.







Gómez was secretary general of employment for two years, with minister caldera, and is the author of the 2006 labor reform. "He has a very deep understanding of social agents," according to his former collaborators, and many tables to manage them. During those years he dedicated himself to social dialogue, in endless days, with infinite patience and restraint. -- he brings together the necessary science and determination, he is very disciplined . -- although he is a ugt member, he is not going to take off his minister's suit and, if he has to tighten the rope, he will tighten it. -- the question is whether zapatero will give him the necessary autonomy to develop the labor and pension reform without the unions buckling or the employers becoming entrenched. -- “valeriano, fix the social dialogue , you know all of these well: you have already dealt with them,” it seems that was zapatero's order. -- gómez is considered by social agents to be an excellent person, intelligent, conversational, but with character. After two years of being with caldera, he disagreed with the minister (uncontrolled regularization of immigrants, concession to solbes for the minimum wage), he grabbed the door and left.