Tomás Gómez Franco (born 27 March 1968) is a Spanish
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
and member of the
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources:
*
*
*
* political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...
(PSOE), former Secretary-General of the PSOE
Madrid branch. Until 2013, Gomez served as a member of the
Senate of Spain
The Senate ( es, Senado) is the upper house of the Cortes Generales, which along with the Congress of Deputies – the lower chamber – comprises the Parliament of the Kingdom of Spain. The Senate meets in the Palace of the Senate in Madrid.
Th ...
. In October 2010 he was selected as the PSOE candidate for President of Madrid in the
2011 assembly elections. However, the PSOE received their worst ever result in those elections.
On 11 February 2015, he was dismissed from the PSOE regional leadership by the party's Secretary-General
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...
after suspicions of Gómez had been involved in a corruption scandal during his time as
Mayor of Parla. 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.
References
1968 births
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Leaders of political parties in Spain
Living people
Members of the Senate of Spain
People from Enschede
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Members of the 9th Assembly of Madrid
City councillors in the Community of Madrid
Mayors of places in the Community of Madrid
Members of the Socialist Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid)
{{Madrid-politician-stub