Juan Carlos Valderrama Zuirán will assume the Department of Emergencies and the Interior replacing Salomé Pradas, who until now was responsible for the area of Emergencies as head of the Department of Justice and the Interior and who sparked controversy by admitting that She was unaware of how the ES-Alert program worked, with the result that the population was alerted by DANA.
The appointment of Valderrama to replace Pradas was announced this Wednesday by Valencian President Carlos Mazón and comes three weeks after the DANA disaster that devastated the province of Valencia, which has so far left 220 dead, 8 missing and material damage of several million dollars.
Valderrama Zuírán, new Minister of Emergencies and Interior, is doctor of medicine and surgery and is currently a professor He holds a doctorate from the University of Valencia (UV) from the Department of History of Science and Documentation and director of the Social and Health Information and Research Group (UISY Group).
Between 2014 and 2017, was a government subdelegate in the province of Valencia and has carried out his functions within the State Security Forces and Corps, Local Police, Private Security, the National Police Corps unit assigned to the Valencian Community and the civil protection.
The Generalitat indicated that during this period, “it promoted the Local Security Commissions in the province of Valencia, the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Security in educational centers and their surroundings”. Likewise, he added that promotion of training in rural security and gender violencehate crimes and discrimination committed by state security forces and bodies.
Previously, he had held the position of Deputy Director General and Head of the Security and Training Sector at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice (2009-2014), a stage during which the current headquarters of the Institute Valencian Public Security and Emergencies in Cheste has been planned.
He has been a collaborator and coordinator of numerous European projects linked to the security and protection of minors. Among them stands out UNARSapproved under the program Daphne III on “Children as victims and aggressors of violence” and the HERA improves police management against domestic violence through women’s empowermentalso approved under the program Daphne III.
Valderrama Zurián also published more than 190 articles in scientific journalshas collaborated on 17 books and is a member of scientific journal committees, representation in national and international scientific societies, research organizations, commissions and advisory boards.
In 2024 received the Cross of Military Merit with white badge; in 2018, the Gold Decoration of the Generalitat for Police Merit and in 2017 the Cross for Police Merit with White Badge, among other awards.
New Minister of Justice
Also replacing Pradas, Mazón will join his team Nuria Martínez Sanchis that she will be appointed Minister of Justice, a department which will be separated from the current Ministry of Justice and the Interior led by Pradas.
Nuria Martínez Sanchis, appointed Minister of Justice, in the archive image. Referred by Handout by UCV/EP
Martínez Sanchis graduated in law from the University of Valencia in 1999 and received a doctorate in law from the Catholic University of Valencia in 2016.
He has been practicing law since 2000; Between 2018 and 2023 she was dean of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Valencia, where she is professor of civil law and several postgraduate courses at the Catholic University of Valencia. She is also director of a university master’s degree in law and public procurement.
Until July 2024, he is a member of the Family and Succession Section of the Official College of Lawyers of Valenciaand between 2010 and 2023, dean of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences.
She has participated in international forums and conferences related to family law and is a regular contributor to Family and Inheritance Section magazine. ICAV with articles related to family law and in scientific textbooks and books and legal journals.
Cabinet renovation
Valderrama and Martínez will be granted the powers that were until now attributed to the Ministry of Justice and the Interiorwhose owner was Salome Pradas.
The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, thanked the “political generosity” And “sight height” of Pradas, and recognized his excellent work both in his current functions and in those he exercised as advise of the Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory.
The appointments of Valderrama and Martínez Sanchis are part of the renewal of the Valencian government announced last Friday by Mazón to account for his management of DANA. They thus join the incorporations already announced the previous days of Mariano Canoas Minister of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism, and Francisco José Gan Pampolsas vice-president for economic and social recovery.
