Ana Pastoor, PP MP and former Minister of Health and Development in the Aznar and Rajoy governments, has announced that she is leaving politics and her record in Congress to return to work in healthcare. “My party gave me everything and I gave the best of myself, both when we had to represent the interests of the Spanish people at the head of the government and when we had to work from the opposition,” the former president said. of the party as stated in a statement by Congress, which is considered the PP sector closest to Mariano Rajoy.
As explained The SpanishPastor's destination is the Mutual Insurance Group, an insurance for professionals in the healthcare sector. Juan Andrés Bayón, councilor in Galicia and leader of New Generations in the autonomous community, will take his place in Congress.
Pastor was Minister of Health during the last term of José María Aznar and of Public Works during the first five years of Mariano Rajoy, and President of Congress until 2019. The PP does not specify where she will work, except that she explains that, as a doctor by profession, she returns to healthcare: “To the world of professional institutions in the health field, where he will continue to contribute and make available his experience to improve the conditions of the various healthcare services,” explains Alberto Núñez Feijóo's training.
From the sector of the party closest to former President Rajoy, Ana Pastor was one of the visible faces of the PP during the pandemic and during Pablo Casado's mandate. against its most serene profile that of the then spokesperson in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo. She was chosen as the party's spokesperson in the Lower House's Committee for Social and Economic Reconstruction.