Ximo Puig restarts his government: "I'm not thinking about the elections but about facing a decade of opportunities"

Ximo Puig

has taken a week to place all the pieces on the chessboard with which he wants to play the game in the last year of the legislature.

He has cost more than expected due to his desire to recognize the effort of the health workers during the pandemic by placing a doctor,

, at the head of the Ministry of Health .

The rest, key people around him and who have been key in vital operations for the Generalitat.

, his right-hand man since his arrival at the Palau, first as an adviser and then from Territorial Policy, will assume the Treasury portfolio and will hand over his current powers to

.

completes the remodeling

, in Innovation and Universities, and the only new face in the Compromís departments:

, who will be in charge of Education, Culture and Sports.

The most extensive remodeling that Puig has done since he arrived at the Botànic is undertaken one year before the regional elections and he has wanted to explain a reason in a solo appearance in the Hall of Corts of the Palau, a place of enormous symbolism to reinforce his message .

Puig will try to "relaunch the Valencian Community" in a "disruptive moment" for which he needed "a new impulse, an update, a reset, a change that gives power to government action."

"I am not thinking about the elections but about facing a decade of opportunities. We are not governing for the elections but for the new generations," insisted the president.

"We are beginning a new stage, with a strong Consell to strengthen the reactivation with six women and six men for the first time in history and with a mission: to accelerate the transformation of a new Valencian Community with all public power. It is the philosophy. In a time for change, transform to attract projects, to inject energy into the vein and make the welfare state more vigorous", insisted the president, who reiterated the need to take advantage of European funds, and continue attracting multinationals such as

.

New councilors

For these tasks, Puig made use of two rising values ​​of the PSPV and its Administration:

and Rebeca Torró.

The new Minister of Finance will arrive not only with the tasks in which his predecessor was involved, carrying out the coalition's budgets for seven years "in a timely manner", as Puig pointed out, but also continuing to fight for the financing model and, above all, everything, promote the branch of "Economic Model" that this department has, which will fall, according to the president, "the execution of European funds and the transformation of the business fabric".

In Territorial Policy ,

will take over , a woman who has developed a key role in the arrival of the Volkswagen gigafactory in Sagunto and who will now take on the challenge of generating the entire environment in Parc Sagunt to install the auxiliary companies that will accompany the multinational German.

In addition "in an expansive, neo-Keynesian phase" she will have to promote two priorities related to European financing: renewable energy, "to advance energy sovereignty" and sustainable public transport policies.

The third leg of this renewal in the socialist areas will be led by the senator from Alicante ,

, who is in charge of Innovation, Universities and Science, the only department based in Alicante and to which Puig will ask to be a "transforming lever to digitize companies, connect the Valencian innovative system, with Alicante as the headquarters of a cluster, and promote the new Science Law".

These three socialists are joined by

, chosen by Compromís, who was already part of the Administration as regional secretary for Education and Culture.

The novelty, and the reason that this remodeling has been delayed, is in Health.

The new minister will be Dr.

, head of the Digestive Unit of the Clinical Hospital of Valencia, researcher at Incliva and professor at the University of Valencia.

It is a technical profile, without links to the PSPV, who has worked in other hospitals in the Valencian Community and with whose appointment Puig wanted to have a gesture with the health workers for his dedication during the pandemic.

As a challenge, he will have to execute the greatest reform of the Valencian Public Health, especially Primary Care and Mental Health, as well as promote the Health Infrastructure Plan.

During his speech, the president has shown his "deep gratitude" to the ministers

,

,

and

, with whom he has said he has shared the "most difficult time" in reference to the pandemic, at the same time who has been convinced that the public has valued his work.

Specifically, he thanked the loyalty of Vicent Soler, the "conciliatory spirit" of Vicent Marzà, the "capacity for public service" of Carolina Pascual, and the strength of Ana Barceló, whose dedication during the more than 600 days of pandemic.

She will be the one who now directs the socialist parliamentary group in the Cortes as trustee for her ability to reach agreements with government partners.

Regarding the possibility that Soler ends up occupying the seat of territorial senator left by Josefina Bueno, Puig was cautious and assured that it will be a decision of Soler himself, of whom he highlighted his "

open and tolerant

"It is one of the clearest references of political Valencianism in recent decades. It will continue to be useful to the progress project of the Valencian Community", he warned.

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