The new president of the state of Valenciana, Juanfran Pérez Yurca, announced on Wednesday the formation of his government, in which he retains all of the advisors of his predecessor, Carlos Mazón, with the exception of the Treasury Minister, Ruth Merino. he president He created significantly strengthened ministries for the Presidency and the Ministry of Social Services, Children and Family, as well as dismantling the engine room structure of his predecessor at the Palau de la Generalitat.
The new president of the council in the Valencian government retains the two advisers most criticized by the families of the Dana victims, but withdraws their powers directly linked to the floods that killed 230 people in the province of Valencia on October 29 last year. Susana Camarero will continue as Vice President, but will not serve as spokesperson for the Council, as was the case with the previous Council. president. Camarero has shown significant wear and tear during the year in which he served as a buffer for Dana Di Mazzone’s highly controversial administration, which finally prompted him to tender his resignation on November 3.
Camarero will be replaced in this role by the veteran politician who was the parliamentary spokesman for the People’s Party before taking over the Ministry of Agriculture, Miguel Paracina. This is a strict position characterized by emphatic loyalty to the party, which contradicts the calls for moderation and dialogue that Pérez Yurca has repeatedly made since he was sworn in as president last Thursday.
Camarero will also not continue to exercise the powers of social services, which include the elderly and dependents. The Vice President was called as a witness by the investigating judge in the Dana criminal case over the deaths of 37 dependents linked to the state’s telecare service. Instead, it will retain the housing and equality portfolios, and in addition, it will integrate employment and youth.
Pérez Jurca also retains in the council one of the most controversial advisors, and a personal friend of Mazón, José Antonio Rovira, but he changed the positions of education, culture and universities he had held until now to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Rovira left for his home in Alicante on the morning of Dana and his management was subjected to numerous criticisms from the victims.
Ruth Merino is leaving the Treasury, the only chancellor who will not continue in her role. It was an autograph from Mazzone who was fishing in the fishing area of Ciudadanos. Mary Carmen Ortiz, educational inspector and director of the Popular University of Valencia, will be his replacement at the head of education, culture and universities.
he president He created two new ministries in relation to the previous government: the Ministry of the Presidency, dismissing Mazzone’s positions, and the Ministry of Social Services, Children and Family. Pepe Diez will occupy first place with the rank of Vice President. He graduated in law, and until now he was general manager of strategic projects and was previously a state attorney. The second will be managed by Elena El Balat, Regional Secretary of the Social and Health System until now.
There will be three vice-presidents: Pepe Diez, Susana Camarero and Vicente Martínez Mos, one of the top-rated managers, who will continue the Recovery, Environment and Land portfolios, in which he integrates energy.
In addition, the council members who retain the powers they had in the outgoing Mazzone government are Marciano Gomez in health; Juan Carlos Valderrama in emergency and internal situations; Marian Cano in Industry, Tourism, Innovation and Trade, and Nuria Martínez in Justice, although from now on they have powers of transparency and without powers of public administration. Miguel Paracina also maintains his farming skills.
Pérez Jurca also announced the appointment of a Damage Recovery Commissioner, assigned to the Vice President of Mos, who will be Raúl Mérida, the Regional Secretary for the Environment until now. The new president of the council explained in his first appearance at the General State Palace: “I want there to be clear leadership, real coordination, and enhanced recovery with city councils and affected sectors, as well as with the government.”
he president He reiterated his intention to place “a lot of focus” during his government on housing, youth and employment policies, which “cuts across the entire state”. “That is why I want to strengthen the role of the Vice President and Susana Camarero in these powers, which for me will be a top priority,” he stressed.
Yurka announced that the presidency would assume the powers of linguistic policy, which until now had depended on education. “From here we will strengthen the use and promotion of the Valencian language,” he declared on an issue that the Vox party, its parliamentary partner, fought against the Valencian Language Academy. The president defends her, but he must make changes to her work, which he has repeated on many occasions.
He also announced the appointment of three regional secretaries “in the coming days”: Henar Molinero as presidential secretary (who had already held a very similar position during Francisco Camps’ term); Jacobo Navarro, Regional Secretary for Strategic Analysis and Public Policy, and Vicente Ordaz, Regional Secretary for Communications. Therefore, Ordaz, the former head of the news department at Cope in Valencia, will no longer assume the chairmanship of the board of directors of À Punt, Valencia’s public radio and television station, which he ran for less than a year.