“Am I the first?”, he asked the workers of the Congress of Deputies Hector Palencia Rubio, who this Monday effectively became the first deputy to come to collect his credentials. The PP parliamentarian for Avilawho even made the wrong room as a rookie in the Lower House that he is, ironically assumed that arriving before anyone else has a simple explanation: “It is what living in Ávila has.”
And the truth is that if this man from Avila, a technical public works engineer born in 1977, is proud of having lived all his life in the Castilian-Leonese city, in whose City Hall he took his first steps as a politician. The person who has had him in the last year as his right hand already said it, Alfonso Fernandez Manueco. De Palencia stressed that his “passion for Ávila” supports him.
The president of Castile and Leon He elevated the one who was his chief of staff on the Board since May 2022 to number one in Congress for Ávila. The bet paid off well, because the popular de Ávila were victorious in this 23-J in 215 of the 248 municipalities of the province, including the capital.
With a discreet profile and a great worker in the shadows, Palencia likes to put into practice one of the advice that his political mentor gave him in his day: Teresian patience. How would I write Saint Teresa of Jesus -or from Ávila-, “patience achieves everything”. In the case of Héctor Palencia, the ticket to Congress has arrived more than a decade after his first foray into the world of politics.
Deputy Secretary of Organization of the PP of Castilla y León, Héctor Palencia premiered in 2019 at the Government of his community as director of Local Administration, to become the president’s chief of staff three years later. Until then, his political experience was directly linked to management in the City hall of Ávila, where he made his debut as a councilor in 2011. He was also deputy mayor for City Services, Tourism and Historical Heritage and coordinating councilor for Tourism and Commerce.