The government of Carlos Mazón limited the delegated functions of its Director General of the Interior to bullfighting celebrations and public shows only. The senior official Vicente Huet, bullfighting expert appointed during the plenary session of the Consell on October 29, the day of the DANA disaster, was excluded from the functions of public security, coordination of the local police and the police and regional management . civil protection, in an unprecedented decision for a Director General of the Interior. The regional secretary of Security and Emergencies, Emilio Argüeso, signed on November 7 the resolution of delegation of powers of the Director General of the Interior, published the next day in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana, which excludes Huet from the main typical functions. of his office, framed in the Department of Justice headed by Salomé Pradas.
The resolution, “in order to achieve greater agility in the processing of authorization resolutions”, considers it “necessary and “appropriate” to delegate to the Director General of the Interior the powers of authorization of public performances, activities recreational or sporting “whose realization takes place or its development crosses more than one municipal area of the Valencian Community.”
In addition, it also leaves in the hands of Huet (former mayor of the PP and former chief of staff of Vicente Mompó in the Provincial Delegation of Valencia) other issues such as the authorization of exhibitions with animals when the Autonomous Administration is responsible for its resolution, bullfighting shows in bullrings and bullfighting celebrations such as “bous al carrer”, sessions in establishments with entry restrictions for minors or the approval of posters setting entry conditions . admission to public establishments.
Thus, the Director General of the Interior also retains responsibility for sanctioning procedures concerning preventive measures against Covid-19 and “any other authorization and administrative action finalizing procedures whose processing corresponds to the Autonomous Secretariat of Security and Emergencies as planned. regulated by the Entertainment Regulations.
Pradas left the position vacant for three months
No trace of the usual functions of a Director General of the Interior: matters related to public security, coordination of local police, management of the unit of the national police force assigned to the Valencian Community – with around 400 agents – and civil protection.
Vicente Huet, as this newspaper reports, was chosen by Carlos Mazón. President and advisor Salomé Pradas signed the decree appointing the high post the same morning as DANA.
The Ministry of Justice and the Interior underlined, in statements reflected in a Europa Press teletype on Tuesday October 29 at 2:23 p.m., the “knowledge of the particularity of the bullfighting celebrations and, in particular, the bous al carrer” of the new stopping point. .
Vicente Huet took over as Vox director from Arturo Alepuz Arrué, who was fired on July 12. Alepuz, a prison officer, held this position for almost a year, until Vox left the Valencian executive last July. After the restructuring of the Consell, Salomé Pradas was appointed Minister of Justice and Interior and left the position of Director General of the Interior vacant for three months.
