The Government has not gone on vacation without solving one of the many hot potatoes that were left dear in the portfolio. The Council of Ministers this Monday has approved the appointment of Elena Manzanera, until now director of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, as the new president of the INE to replace Juan Rodríguez Poo, the previous president, whose departure had an unprecedented earthquake at the statistical institute, sources familiar with the appointment have confirmed to ABC. The first vice-president of the Government and main person in charge of the INE, Nadia Calviño, has finally opted for a technical profile from the Junta de Andalucía, an administration governed by the PP, to occupy one of the most positions and that will be observed with greater detention in the coming months, after the multiple delicate clashes caused by discrepancies between different members of the Government with the information provided by the statistical institute and especially after the turbulent departure of the former president of the statistical institute, who did not want the waiting for the publication of his dismissal to announce his departure from the INE. MORE INFORMATION The president of the INE resigns after the Executive questioned the calculations of the CPI and the GDP, the field of Social Security, which will occupy this position, but the fact that he was a former high-ranking government official and that there was no precedent for a A similar movement in the recent history of the INE has advised opting for another profile. The sources consulted consider Elena Manzanera as a professional of great solvency, with a long career in the Andalusian statistical institute, in which she has held different responsibilities before assuming her Directorate, in February 2019, shortly after the inauguration of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla as Chairman of the Board. The INE has experienced a few months of great agitation due to the doubts raised from different limits of the Southern Government about the reliability of some statistics to measure the economic moment, especially with regard to the economic one measured by the National Accounts and the evolution of evolution, which account the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The departure of Juan Rodríguez Poo, also anticipated by ABC, did nothing but increase the noise around the official statistical institute to the point that the advisory body of the European Commission on statistics issued a statement expressing its concern about the situation generated in the INE and warning of the risks to the credibility of official statistics from political interference in the national statistical institutes.
