Vox gets stuck with the appointments in the Valencian Generalitat and asks the PP for help
The conformation of the management teams in the departments over which it has powers in the Valencian Generalitat is taking a toll on Vox. Until this Friday, the ultra-conservatives have only appointed three of the 19 senior positions that correspond to them, including regional secretaries, general directors and undersecretaries in the First Vice-Presidency and Ministry of Culture, Justice and Agriculture, the areas agreed with the Popular Party of the new President, Carlos Mazon.
The plenary session of the Consell met this Friday for the third time since it took office ten days ago to appoint a new batch of general directors. None of Vox. The spokesperson for the new Government, the also Minister of Finance, Ruth Merino, was forced to answer questions about the apparent jam of members of the popular. “Everyone has their rhythm. It is waiting to choose the best people. It is not in any case due to confrontation or internal dispute. We are making proposals together to find the best,” he said, implying that even the rest of the government, including the PP ministers, was collaborating in the search for profiles.
In addition to its three ministers (Vice President Vicente Barrera, Elisa Núñez and José Luis Aguirre), Santiago Abascal's party has appointed two of the three undersecretaries, María Eugenia Vives and Luis Manuel Martín Domínguez, and the regional secretary (figure equivalent to Secretary of State in the ministries) of Justice, the former deputy in Congress for Alicante, Eduardo Luis Ruiz Navarro.
However, despite the fact that the government agreement was signed almost a month and a half ago and he knows what his role would be in the Consell, the former bullfighter Barrera still has not named his number two in Culture. Below it also hang the General Directorate of Culture, Cultural Heritage and Sports, also vacant.. Aguirre is trying to find profiles in farmers' associations. In Justice there are unnamed positions that in the current summer context are very relevant, such as the regional secretary for Security and Emergencies or the general director of Forest Fire Prevention. The socialist José María Ángel is in office. The deputy director, Jorge Suárez, is likely to remain in the position after the change of government. The Valencian Community is on alert for possible fires.
The delay in the formation of teams is due to the difficulty in assembling match cadres without any management experience and to the fact that, in some cases, refusals have been received from people who have received the offer.
The traffic jam contrasts with the speed of some of the PP ministers, especially those who have accumulated more experience in the Administration. This is the case of the head of Health, Marciano Gómez, who has already named practically the entire team, or that of Education, José Antonio Rovira. The second vice president and councilor for Equality, Susana Camarero, has also made up the bulk of her department, with Asunción Quinzá as regional secretary for Equality and Diversity, and Emilio Argüeso, a former Citizen close to Fran Hervías who has been collaborating with him for several years. the PP in the recruitment of orange cadres, as autonomous secretary of the Social and Health System.
Some of the appointments of the popular come with controversy, such as that of the director general of Relations with the Cortes, the former regional deputy Jorge Bellver, who was splashed in the Azud case for having received gifts (luxury watches) from the key businessman in the plot, Jaime Febrer. Bellver appears in the summary and the investigator of the case asked the Cortes about his status as a taxpayer in the last legislature. However, he never came to request his imputation to the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community and has not summoned him for now to declare once he lost his jurisdiction by being left out of the regional lists. Bellver will report directly to the area of the Presidency of Carlos Mazón.