The journey is over. This Ministry of Innovation and Universities, Science and Digital Society has already established its final headquarters. Witches House from Alicante. The longing of the President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puigis laying the foundations to associate this new project with the city of Alicante, following the belief that two temporary locations and localization deserve a symbolic building in four years.
“It has been very difficult for us to have an administrative structure of more than 100 people, and finally all citizens can feel intimately that the Generalitat Government is in their cities and provinces,” says the minister. Josephine Good. The regional president believes that “politics should offer this intimacy and intimacy”.
The fact that the commitment to decentralization has been fulfilled for Bueno is a symbol or gesture. “I think accessibility is more important than the visibility that being at the center provides, and Alicante has its first Generalitat Ministry. No doubt we are now in a recognizable venue such as Sindicatura de Greuges or Alicante’s Government Sub-Delegation,” the minister, currently working from his office on Avenida Gadea, states.
In a few months, the change will be finalized for the hundred people who make up the ministry. Currently, the Innovation head and cabinet are already occupying the new building. In the coming weeks, the regional secretariats and some general directorates will be moved to the building where the European Office is located on the ground floor for the time being.
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In a few months, the rest of the headquarters and staff will leave digital zone To go to other dependencies of Generalitat connected to the House of Witches. Although the exact point is not clear, he will be in the region for the operation. This means that the Presidency already operates from the Post Office in Gabriel Miró square and will soon open its doors with a photography exhibition. magnum agency now run by Cristina de Middel from Alicante.
Josefina Bueno told this newspaper that in addition to cooperation with the city and the country, the Innovation and Universities headquarters will open with exhibitions or speeches as a gesture of open doors and approach to society.
Ximo Puig’s personal commitment to establishing a ministry in Alicante was fraught with doubts due to the initial lack of structure. In fact, impermanence led to the official address being initially in the Prop building on La Rambla and later in Ciudad de la Luz.
The predictable development of productions made change necessary, and this modernist building, declared a Heritage of Cultural Interest and purchased by the Generalitat Valenciana in 1986, was chosen to provide Consell with a representative headquarters in the provincial capital of Alicante for its restoration and rehabilitation. .