MALAGA, Nov. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the Malaga Provincial Council, Francisco Salado (PP), has withdrawn the powers of the promotion brand of the agri-food sector from the first vice president, Juan Carlos Maldonado, of Ciudadanos and government partner of the PP in the provincial institution.

This has been confirmed to Europa Press by sources from the provincial institution, who have added that they want to give a boost to the Sabor a Málaga brand in the hands of producers and distributors, who had transferred this request that the Presidency recover the jurisdiction over that trademark.

Maldonado will continue to be first vice president and provincial deputy responsible for the Economic and Social Development Area, which includes the delegations of Sustainable Economic Development, Employment and Training and Education, Youth and Sports, as well as the promotion brand Málaga de Moda tal and as the president has communicated and establishes the signed decree.

This decision is part of a restructuring of the government team undertaken by the provincial president, Francisco Salado. Leonor García-Agua, until now director of the Presidency Area, will also direct the Sabor a Málaga brand, for the design, launch and start-up of which she was responsible from 2012 to 2019.

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The president of the Diputación, Francisco Salado, has explained in a statement that the first objective of this restructuring, in line with what was requested in recent meetings by producers, restaurateurs and distributors of the brand, is to "meet the demands of the sector and maintain the celebration of the Christmas Fair that has traditionally been held on the December long weekend" in the capital of Malaga.

He has also added, they want to recover the presence of Sabor a Málaga in the main national and international fairs of the sector, such as the Salón Gourmets de Madrid, Gastronómika de San Sebastián, Alimentaria de Barcelona and Madrid Fusión, among other agri-food events .

Salado thanked the work carried out in the last two years by the first vice president, Juan Carlos Maldonado, in charge of the agri-food brand.

The president of the Diputación has underlined the "priority" nature of the different lines and calls for aid for job creation, for long-term unemployed, the First Opportunity Plan for young university graduates or from FP and the aid to the self-employed, to companies and the calls for subsidies to face the crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic that is underway and planned for 2022 by the Area directed by Maldonado.