The Valencian Government has convened an extraordinary plenary session to appoint the first members of the second echelon of the Consell. Among the appointments announced yesterday by the spokesperson for the regional government, Ruth Merino, those of former regional Treasury Secretary with Alberto Fabra, Eusebio Monzó, stand out, who will be in charge of helping Merino as regional Treasury and Economy Secretary, or ex-Citizens posts.
The former secretary of Organization of the orange formation and one of the first to go over to the PP Emilio Argüeso will be the autonomous secretary of the Social Health System, while the deputy in Les Corts de Cs Carlos Gracia will be the undersecretary of Finance. Gracia and Merino were together in the parliamentary group as signings of Toni Cantó.
She also returns to the political front line as the regional secretary for Equality and Diversity, Asunción Quinzá, who will be the right hand of the second vice president, Susana Camarero. Another who returns to occupy a very similar position is José Vicente Domine who will be the regional secretary of Infrastructure and Transport. The one who was general director of Transport during the metro accident returns to the Consell.
The Presidency is the department that has the clearest appointments. Mazón has thus configured its hard core without any great surprises: it has appointed Santiago Lumbreras -up to now his chief of staff in the Alicante Provincial Council- as regional secretary for Institutional Relations and Transparency, and José Manuel Cuenca as regional secretary of the president’s cabinet -he is his chief of staff in the PPCV-. In addition, he incorporates Cayetano García as regional secretary of the Presidency and Joaquín Vañó as undersecretary.
In addition, the spokeswoman for the Valencian Government has indicated that the Consell “continues to reduce the political burden of the Generalitat with a reduction in the number of general directorates, which go from 85 to 75”, a reduction that is added to the reduction both in the number of departments, which have gone from 12 to 10 (Presidency and 9 ministries) and in the number of undersecretaries (from 12 to 10) and regional secretaries (from 31 to 26).