Juan Francisco Pérez Jurca tried to eliminate or reduce the hard core of “Masonicism” in the council he inherited. The purge affected the presidential cabinet, Carlos Mazzone’s defense of Dana’s questionable, independent administration signed by the former president, and Susana Camarero, the visible face of the former regional executive’s official version of the disaster, who remained first vice president but lost her powers.
However, the new council president retains almost all of Mazón’s council members, including the controversial education chief, José Antonio Rovira, who holds the treasury portfolio.
The new president got rid of José Manuel Cuenca, Mazzone’s chief of staff and regional secretary of communications. He masterminded the media strategy of Carlos Mazzone, with whom he shared an apartment in Valencia.
On the other hand, Pérez Jorca appointed Henar Molinero as head of the Regional Secretariat of the Presidency, a position from the “Cambismo” movement that replaced Cayetano García Ramírez.
In addition, the new president is getting rid of the Department of Transparency, which is moving from being under the leadership of Palau to the Ministry of Justice, headed by Nuria Martinez. Santiago Lumbreras, an Amazon heavyweight, served as Regional Secretary for Corporate Relations and Transparency.
The only exit from the Council is that of Ruth Merino, signed by Mazzone who came from the political ashes of Ciudadanos and who remained out of the limelight after the Dana of October 29, 2024, a tragedy that left 230 people dead. Merino was replaced by Susana Camarero as Consell’s spokeswoman after the damage.
Camarero became the face that weekly defended the Mazón Executive’s official version of Dana’s management. In addition, the death of telecare users in the October 29, 2024 disaster also affected the vice president.
Susana Camarero loses the specialty of social services, taking over a new department that also includes family and childhood and Elena Albalate Aguila. This is the former regional secretary of the social and health system.