The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, announced this Wednesday the composition of his new Council. As was already known, the vice president and head of Culture will be the former bullfighter Vicente Barrera, the result of the PP and Vox pact. For the composition of his government, Mazón has chosen people with experience in previous governments and institutional responsibilities and with the closest confidence of him.
Thus, the second vice-presidency and Ministry of Social Services, Equality and Housing will go to the historic Susana Camarero, who was already a regional deputy in 1995 with Eduardo Zaplana. Camarero was Secretary of State for Equality (2014-2016) and has been the spokesperson for the PP in the Equality and Social Services commissions in Congress for four legislatures. In addition, she will hold the position of secretary of the Consell. However, it will not be the spokesperson for the Government that will be Ruth Merino who assumes stripes in the new structure designed by Carlos Mazón.
Merino, trustee of Ciudadanos until the end of the legislature, when he left the oranges to sign and enter the Mazón lists, will occupy the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Public Administration. This State Treasury technician will be the first woman to occupy this portfolio in the Valencian Community, to which the Public Administration competence that the PP has separated from Justice is added so that it is not controlled by Vox. The formation of the extreme right loses steam in the new structure of the Valencian Government despite the fact that yesterday it warned that it would not allow its ministries to be emptied of content. Thus, Merino becomes one of the key pieces of the new organization chart.
Another of the independents that join the Consell is Nuria Montes. The until now general secretary of the hotel management association Hosbec will assume the great area of ??Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism.
For Education, Universities and Employment (which joins this great area), Mazón has chosen a person of his utmost confidence who already had responsibilities in former PP governments. José Antonio Rovira was General Director of Personnel of the Department of Education (2001-2007), Personnel Manager of the Diputación d’Alacant (2007-2011) and territorial director of Alicante of the Department of Education (2013-2014).
Health will be for Marciano Gómez, a graduate in Medicine and Surgery and director of the clinical management area of ??Hospital la Fe. Gómez is a specialist in Family and Community Medicine and a university specialist in accreditation of health centers and services
Another large area will be that of the Environment, Water, Infrastructures and Territory, which will be managed by Senator Salomé Pradas. This leader is one of the people closest to Carlos Mazón in the province of Castellón.
For its part, Vox has chosen Elisa Nuñez, the lawyer and lawyer on the ex officio duty, as Minister of Justice. A competition that will no longer have the powers in Public Administration. She was an adviser and manager of integration programs for migrants and foreigners in the seventh legislature of the Generalitat Valenciana in this Ministry, at the time of Francisco Camps.
The symbolic Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will go to the Vox deputy, José Luis Aguirre, who was vice president of the Official College of Agricultural Technical Engineers.
