Who was a delegate between 2004 and 2011 and who died last Friday in a traffic accident.

Casares has extolled that Ibáñez was “a great person” and “did many things and all well”. He recalled that, in addition to being a government delegate, he was a councillor and deputy mayor in his municipality, in Santoña, and a regional deputy.

Regarding his time as a delegate, Casares said that his seven years at the head of the Government Delegation “were characterized by his way of being and being in politics.”

“Always ready for dialogue, a public servant in the broadest sense of the word, working tirelessly for the common good, and always thinking of the general interest and never of partisan interests,” said the government delegate.

Casares has extolled that the “legacy” of Ibáñez “will forever be in the memory of the men and women of Cantabria” and that he, as a government delegate, will work to ensure that this legacy remains.

“Your political honesty, your intellectual honesty and your public service will be forever in our memory. We can only thank him for giving the best years of his life, his most valuable years on a personal level, to the common good. Our dear Augustine rests in peace,” concluded Casares.

The government delegate in Cantabria made these statements to the media after opening the doors of the Delegation to remember who headed the institution from 2004 to 2011. Casares has been accompanied by former vice-presidents of Cantabria Lola Gorostiaga and Eva Díaz Tezanos, and former mayors of Santoña Puerto Gallego and Sergio Abascal.

In addition, the president and first vice-president of the Parliament of Cantabria, María José González revuelta and Alejandro Liz, respectively, have also gone through the Government Delegation to show their condolences for the death of Ibáñez; the former regional president Miguel Ángel Revilla or the former mayor of Santander Gonzalo Piñeiro.