The Valencian Government has continued this Friday propping up the new structure of the Consell with the appointment of 24 general directors. Among the appointments, Paula Añó Santiago stands out, a Valencian living in Barcelona who rose to fame after denouncing the consequences of the independence process on a well-known television program. “They want to alienate us, put a border where there was none for ethnolinguistic reasons,” she declared before the Telecinco microphones.
Some demonstrations that caused many parties and political leaders of PP, Ciudadanos and Vox to try to identify with this “outraged citizen” who was later discovered to be affiliated with the PP.
As La Vanguardia explained, he was from the PP and at that time worked in the press department of the Free Center for Art and Culture (CLAC), an entity created to make visible “the plurality of Catalan culture through a space with freedom” promoted by figures such as Francesc de Carreras, Félix Ovejero, Manuel Cruz, Miriam Tey or Ignacio Vidal-Folch.
Politically, Añó’s career is varied. He was on the PP lists in the 2021 Catalan elections. However, later, he changed parties and ended up in Valents, a formation that emerged from Barcelona pel Canvi after the departure of Manuel Valls. According to her curriculum, Añó has been councilor of the Ensanche / Eixample district of the Barcelona City Council for the Valents municipal group since 2021. In fact, the new regional secretary of Valencian Culture was number 6 on the lists of this formation in the recent municipal elections in Barcelona on 28-M.
Now Vox has trusted her to be the number two of the former bullfighter Vicente Barrera in the First Vice Presidency and Ministry of Culture of the Valencian Executive.
