Tomás Gómez

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]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gómez and the second or maternal family name is Franco.
Tomás Gómez
Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Madrid
In office
27 July 2007 – 11 February 2015
Preceded byRafael Simancas
Succeeded bySara Hernández
Mayor of Parla
In office
4 July 1999 – 23 October 2008
Preceded byJosé Manuel Ibáñez
Succeeded byJosé María Fraile
Member of the Senate
In office
8 June 2011 – 13 February 2015
ConstituencyMadrid
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
29 June 2011 – 27 February 2013
Personal details
Born
Tomás Gómez Franco

(1968-03-27) 27 March 1968
Enschede, Netherlands
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

On 11 February 2015, he was dismissed from the PSOE regional leadership by the party's Secretary-General Pedro Sánchez after suspicions of Gómez had been 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
  1. Madrid Socialist leader resigns Senate seat over PP-linked judge, El País, 27 November 2013
  2. Gómez gana a Zapatero en Madrid, El País, 4 October 2010
  3. El PSM se descalabra, El País, 23 May 2011
  4. "Pedro Sánchez dismisses Tomás Gómez and creates a management committee in the PSM". El País (in Spanish). 2015-02-11.
  5. "Sanchez gives a blow of authority and expels Tomás Gómez as leader in Madrid". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2015-02-11.


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