Óscar Puente Santiago

The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility was born in Valladolid on November 15, 1968. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Valladolid (Uva) and a master's degree in Political Leadership from the Jaime Vera Foundation. He practiced law from 1995 until he took office as the Mayor of Valladolid in June 2015, a position he held until May 2023. Since July 2023, he has been a Member of the National Parliament.

As mayor, Óscar Puente served as the president of the Spanish Network of Healthy Cities of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) from November 2015 to December 2019. He was a member of the FEMP Board as a spokesperson from September 2019 to May 2023 and represented FEMP in the network of urban initiatives from October 2020 to May 2023. He was also the first vice president of the OICI (Ibero-American Organization for Intermunicipal Cooperation).

He has been a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since 1990 and began his political career in Valladolid in 2004 as the deputy general secretary of the Provincial Executive. In 2007, he was elected councilor of the socialist group in the Valladolid City Council and led the team as the group's president from 2008.

In 2009, he was appointed the general secretary of the Municipal Executive of the PSOE Valladolid, a position he held until December 2021 when he was elected the general secretary of the PSOE Valladolid. Between June 2017 and October 2021, he served as the spokesperson for the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE.