Óscar Puente Santiago was appointed as Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility on 20 November 2023 and he is a Member of Parliament since July 2023.
Óscar Puente Santiago was born on 15 November 1968 in Valladolid. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Valladolid and a master’s degree in political management from the Jaime Vera Foundation. He worked as a lawyer between 1995 and June 2015, when he became Mayor of Valladolid.
He served as Mayor of Valladolid from June 2015 to May 2023, and he chaired the Spanish Network of Healthy Cities of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) between November 2015 and December 2019. He was a member of the FEMP board between September 2019 and May 2023, and a representative of the FEMP in the urban initiatives network between October 2020 and May 2023. He has also been first vice president of the Iberian-American Organization for Intermunicipal Cooperation (OICI).
He has been a member of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Party) since 1990 and began his political career in Valladolid in 2004 as deputy secretary general of the Provincial Executive. In 2007 he was elected as a councillor of the socialist group in Valladolid and he led the group as local party chairman from 2008.
In 2009 he was appointed secretary general of the PSOE Valladolid Municipal Executive, a position he held until December 2021, when he was elected secretary general of the PSOE Valladolid. Between June 2017 and October 2021, he served as spokesperson for the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE.
