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Carolina Darias
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| Minister of Health of Spain | |
| Assumed office 27 January 2021 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Preceded by | Antonio Castro |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Matos |
| Personal details | |
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Carolina Darias San Sebastián
25 November 1965 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.
See also
In Spanish: Carolina Darias para niños
