Barcelona (EFE).- The Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, will announce today a reshuffle of his government, which will affect three ministries, with the departure of Teresa Jordà (Climate Action), Juli Fernàndez (Territory) and Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray (Education ), who will be relieved by David Mascort, Ester Capella and Anna Simó, respectively.
This has been confirmed to EFE by sources from the Generalitat, before the appearance that Aragonès has scheduled this Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the Gothic Gallery of the Catalan government headquarters, to announce these changes in his executive just over a month for the general elections on July 23.
One of the changes, that of Teresa Jordà, was obligatory: this weekend, the ERC leadership announced that it will contest the elections on July 23 with a tandem made up of Gabriel Rufián, current spokesman for the Republicans in Congress, and the until now Minister of Climate Action, who therefore must be replaced.
In recent months, Jordà had had to face one of the most difficult issues that the Government has on its hands, the management of the drought in Catalonia, for which reason he has been one of the faces of the executive that has appeared publicly the most times .
But the profile that has possibly suffered the greatest wear and tear in these first two years of the legislature has been that of Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, who has clashed head-on with the educational community of Catalonia, which in the last year has gone on strike on various occasions in protest at the changes that the Minister of Education has wanted to introduce, for example, in the school calendar.
The opposition has repeatedly demanded the resignation of Gonzàlez-Cambray, whom Aragonès had shielded until now.
Perhaps the most surprising a priori replacement is that of Fernàndez, who joined the Government last fall, following JxCat’s decision to break the coalition with ERC and leave the executive.
Since his appointment in October of last year, Fernàndez will have spent a total of eight months at the helm of the Department of Territory, a time in which he has experienced some bitter pills, such as when the Government, to get the necessary votes to approve the budgets for This year, he signed an agreement with the PSC that included the commitment to build the Ronda Norte del Vallès, a project that the minister had historically opposed.
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