(FILES) A file picture taken on October 23, 2013 shows former Spanish minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism Jose Manuel Soria arriving for the opening of the first ministerial meeting of the "Friends of the Industry" at the Economy ministry in Paris. The Spanish interim government proposed on September 2, 2016 former Industry Minister, conservative Jose Manuel Soria, for a World Bank high office. Soria resigned in April 2016 after being quoted in the "Panama Papers" scandal". / AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONTERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images