Tomás Gómez Franco
| Tomás Gómez | |
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| Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Madrid | |
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In office 27 July 2007 – 11 February 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Rafael Simancas |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Simancas (interim committee) |
| Mayor of Parla | |
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In office 4 July 1999 – 23 October 2008 | |
| Preceded by | José Manuel Ibáñez |
| Succeeded by | José María Fraile |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Tomás Gómez Franco 27 March 1968 Enschede, Netherlands |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Tomás Gómez Franco (born 27 March 1968) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), former Secretary-General of the PSOE Madrid branch. Until 2013, Gomez served as a member of the Senate of Spain.[1] In October 2010 he was selected as the PSOE candidate for President of Madrid in the 2011 assembly elections.[2] However, the PSOE received their worst ever result in those elections.[3]
On 11 February 2015, he was dismissed from the PSOE regional leadership by the party's Secretary-General Pedro Sánchez after suspicions of Gómez being involved in a corruption scandal during his time as Mayor of Parla.[4] Gómez, alongside the party's regional leadership, refused to stand down and accused Sánchez of "authoritarianism", defending his personal honor and announcing possible legal actions against the party's National Executive headed by Sánchez for violating party statutes.[5]
References
- ↑ Madrid Socialist leader resigns Senate seat over PP-linked judge, El País, 27 November 2013
- ↑ Gómez gana a Zapatero en Madrid, El País, 4 October 2010
- ↑ El PSM se descalabra, El País, 23 May 2011
- ↑ "Pedro Sánchez dismisses Tomás Gómez and creates a management committee in the PSM" (in Spanish). El País. 2015-02-11.
- ↑ "Sanchez gives a blow of authority and expels Tomás Gómez as leader in Madrid" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 2015-02-11.