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 by	Rafael Simancas
Succeeded by	Sara Hernández
Mayor of Parla
In office 4 July 1999 – 23 October 2008
Preceded by	José Manuel Ibáñez
Succeeded by	José María Fraile
Member of the Senate
In office 8 June 2011 – 13 February 2015
Constituency	Madrid
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 (age 56) Enschede, Netherlands
Political party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma mater	Complutense 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.

Political offices
Preceded by José Manuel Ibáñez	Mayor of Parla 1999-2008	Succeeded by José María Fraile
Party political offices
Preceded by Rafael Simancas	Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Madrid 2007–2015	Succeeded by Sara Hernández
Preceded by Maru Menéndez	Leader of the Socialist Group in the Assembly of Madrid 2011–2015	Succeeded by José Manuel Franco