Final point to the remodeling of the Valencian Government. The head of the Consell, Carlos Mazón, announced late this Wednesday the dismissal of Salomé Pradas, until now holder of the Justice and Interior portfolio (on which the Emergencies depended) after the DANA disaster that left 220 dead and eight missing in the province of Valencia. Its department will be split into two: the Department of Emergencies and the Interior, which will take over Juan Carlos Valderramaformer subdelegate of the Government in Valencia during the Mariano Rajoy era, and that of Justice, which will now hold Nuria Martínez Sanchis, lawyer and former dean at the Catholic University.
After this movement, together with those announced the previous days with the appointments of the new vice president, the military man Francisco Gan Pampolsof the head of industry, Marián Cano, and of the vice president Susana Camarero as spokesperson, the Valencian Government “completes the remodeling” of the Executive, which now will focus on reconstruction and the recovery of the large areas affected by DANA. According to Consell sources, during the next few days the new positions will be sworn in, as well as the publication of the appointments in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV) for the effective assumption of their responsibilities.
The dismissal of Salomé Pradas represents an assumption of political responsibilities for the role that the minister responsible for emergencies played during the day of October 29. Not only because of the delay in sending messages to citizens’ mobile phonesafter 8:00 p.m., when the towns of l’Horta Sud and the rest of the regions were already flooded by the floods, but also because of the doubts shown during that afternoon and for his subsequent statements in which he claimed to be unaware of the existence of the system itself EsAlert. However, in the note made public by the Generalitat, Mazón “grateful for the political generosity and stature” of Pradas, while highlighting “her great work both in her current functions and in those she carried out as Minister of the Environment.”
Regarding the curriculum of the new councilors, Valderrama was subdelegate of the Government in the province of Valencia between 2014 and 2017, a stage in which he promoted the Local Security Boards, the Plan for Coexistence and Security Improvements in the educational centers and their surroundings. The new Minister of Emergencies and Interior is doctor in Medicine and Surgery and is currently a professor at the University of Valencia (UV) in the Department of History of Science and Documentation and director of the Social and Health Information and Research group. In addition, he had previously held the general deputy directorship and head of the security and training area in the Ministry of Government and Justice (2009-2014), a stage in which the current headquarters of the Valencian Institute of Public Security and Emergencies (Ivaspe) was planned. in Cheste.
The next head of Justice, Nuria Martínez Sanchis, has a degree in Law from the UV in 1999 and a PhD in Law. from the Catholic University of Valencia in 2016. He has been practicing law since 2000; Between 2018 and 2023, she was the dean of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of this institution, where she is a professor of Civil Law and several postgraduate courses. He also directs a university master’s degree in Law and Procurement.
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