The until now secretary of Territorial Policy, Social Action, Barcelonès and Migrations of CC.OO. of Catalunya, Toni Mora, has been appointed new president of the Consell de Treball, Econòmic i Social de Catalunya (CTESC). Mora, who will leave his position in the union, will replace Lluís Franco, president since 2014.
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The CTESC plenary has approved by majority the proposal for a new president made by the vice president and minister of Economy and Finance, Pere Aragonès, and the minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Families, Chakir el Homrani. The Government had also proposed the vice president of Autònoms Pimec, Carme Garcia, as the new executive secretary of the CTESC, a position that has also been approved by majority by the Council's plenary.
The new president of the CTESC has worked in the cleaning, plastic and metal sectors, as well as a freelancer. Mora has university studies in Law and Geography and History and training in Public Policies. He was general secretary of the Comarcal Union of Baix Llobregat of CC.OO., and also of Alt Penedès, Anoia and Garraf. From 2017 to the present, he has held the position of secretary of Territorial Policy, Social Action, Barcelonès and Migrations in the organization led by Javier Pacheco.
For her part, Garcia has a degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB). She is also an official civil and commercial mediator from the University of La Rioja and has a diploma in Tax Law from the Centre d'Estudis Empresarials. She has more than thirty years of experience in the financial sector, twenty of which in the public sector, in management tasks at the Institut Català de Finances (ICF). In parallel, she has been part of Pimec and the Col·legi d'Economistes de Catalunya.
The CTESC is a public law entity, with its own legal personality and full capacity and organic and functional autonomy for the fulfillment of its purposes as a consultative and advisory body of the Government in socioeconomic, labor and occupational matters. It collects the proposals of the social agents it represents and analyzes the adequacy of the policies of the Catalan executive, with the aim of strengthening social dialogue in Catalonia.