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Carolina Darias
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Minister of Health of Spain
Assumed office
27 January 2021
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by Salvador Illa
Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of Spain
In office
13 January 2020 – 27 January 2021
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by Luis Planas (Acting)
Succeeded by Miquel Iceta
Regional Minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Islands
In office
18 July 2019 – 13 January 2020
President Ángel Víctor Torres
Preceded by Pedro Ortega Rodríguez
Cristina Valido García
President of the Parliament of the Canary Islands
In office
23 June 2015 – 25 June 2019
Preceded by Antonio Castro
Succeeded by Gustavo Matos
Personal details
Born
Carolina Darias San Sebastián

(1965-11-25) 25 November 1965 (age 58)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Political party PSOE
Alma mater University of La Laguna

Carolina Darias San Sebastián (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 25 November 1965) is a Spanish civil servant and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician who has been serving as minister of Health of Spain since January 2021. Before that, from 2020 to 2021, she served as Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

As member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), in July 2019 Canarian President Ángel Víctor Torres appointed Darias as regional minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment in the government of the Canary Islands. She also served as President of the Parliament of the Canary Islands from June 2015 to June 2019.

Early life

Born in Las Palmas on 25 November 1965, Darias received her law degree from the University of La Laguna.

Personal life

On 12 March 2020, it was reported that Darias had been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused coronavirus 2020 pandemic. She was the second member of the Spanish government to be infected by the virus, after it was reported that Minister of Equality Irene Montero had tested positive for the virus earlier the same day.

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