The Alicante-based Ministry of Innovation and Universities remains a powder keg. Movements between different positions have been constant since the legislature began. However, relief Carolina Pascual with Josephine Good It contains neither dances of names nor conflicts. So much so that there have been four more changes since September. The last one is that of Carmen Beviá, the regional secretary of Universities. While it has been verified that in most cases the changes in the organizational chart were produced by personal decisions, the truth is that the movements of the names were also fixed in the organization. Ministry It has been led by Josefina Bueno since mid-May. While there is a situation that circles close to the minister attribute to the “inheritance” of a team after Carolina Pascual’s departure, the focus of other circles close to the ministry is Josefina Bueno’s chief of staff. Mari Angeles Rocheland in conflicts with some of Innovation’s top positions.
resignation
The last departure came last Friday, when Carmen Beviá submitted her resignation after occasional clashes. ministry domeand in complete conflict over the funding of universities. The name of Beviá’s replacement has yet to be confirmed, but ministry sources assure that work is being done to identify the successor as soon as possible. The same sources suggest that Generalitat’s own Chairman, Ximo Puig, is actively working on reshuffling with the Minister.
In chronological order, before Beviá’s departure, Gonzalo García Mayans had to take on new responsibilities at the Alicante Port Authority at the end of last October. García Mayans stepped down as the minister’s parliamentary adviser. had happened before chief of staff Innovation, a function that Carolina Pascual has run since September of last year, when she was in charge of the Ministry. She then served as parliamentary adviser until her dismissal, coinciding with Rochel’s appointment as chief of staff. It was previously part of the Ministry of Finance.
Another resignation at his own request was the resignation of Ángel Carbonell as Managing Director. Science and Researchoccurred at the end of September. Carbonell, a professor at Elche Miguel Hernández University (UMH), accepted the position in July 2020 to fill a position that had been vacant for six months. His predecessor was Beviá himself, who later became regional secretary for Universities and Research, and resigned from that responsibility last Friday.
The fourth of the sudden changes that took place in the ministry was the appointment of Jordi Juan as regional secretary. Innovation and Digital Transformation. After Juan’s resignation, his position passed into the hands of Marian Campello, former district deputy of Compromís. In the previous legislature, a member of the Valencian Cortes had served as Presidential adviser in the autonomous Parliament, until he took on his new responsibility, after being excluded from the Cortes in the last election.
The dome of the ministry did not stand still. Last May, Bueno replaced Pascual after accepting President Puig’s challenge. In the last legislature, Alicante was already managing director. University, Research and Science. Pascual, for his part, closed ahead of time in Botànic’s second term, a phase that began in Botànic’s second term when the Consell president formalized his personal commitment to give greater weight to the state and examined the line of decentralization of the institutions he advocated.
relay
Apart from all the turmoil that has occurred in the Ministry this year, hasty relocations have been dragging on for a long time. For example, in September 2020, Pepe Villar was dismissed by Verónica López as Undersecretary for Innovation. Villar resigned from his post after making his statement. strong inconsistencies with then Minister Pascual. His departure has already confirmed that the establishment of the new department was fraught with obstacles from the very beginning.
Another change, for example, took place in May of last year when Pedro Pernías, then managing director of the Advance of the Digital Society, became the new president. regional director Innovation in Valencia. Pernías was replaced by Juan Ignacio Torregrosa, who had previously served as director of the Universitat Politècnica de València’s Alcoy campus. All these changes resulted in an almost complete restructuring of the department.