This morning at the Capilla del Consolat de Mar, the new councillor
for
Obras
Públicas, Vivienda y Transporte of the Balearic Government,
Francesc Quetglas took over the position. .
Yesterday the president of the
Govern de
les Illes Balears, Francesc Antich, signed the nomination of the new
councillor after the previous head of the department, Josep Antoni Ferrer
i Orfila presented his resignation to the Balearic President on Thursday
27 September.
Francesc Quetglas Rosanes (Barcelona, 1948) is a graduate in Economic
Science from the Barcelona University and has been a civil servant of the
Superior Corps of Civil Administrators of the State since 1978.
Between 1978 and 1981 he was the general subdirector of the Informative
Cooperation of the Central government, presided by Adolfo Suárez.
From 1982 to 1986 he presided the political party Centro Democrático
y Social (CDS) in the Balearics and was an autonomous MP and senator for
the Balearics from 1987 to 1991.
In 1996 he was elected as autonomous MP for
PSIB-PSOE
as an independent, becoming a member of this party in 1996. Between
1995 and 1999 he was the president of the Insular Committee for Urbanisation
of the
Consell de Mallorca,
where he was a presumed victim of a case of electronic espionage, and was
also an autonomous MP. In 1999 he was nominated the director of the
Centre
Balears Europa, by the present Balearic Government, the post he resigned
from a few months ago.
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