Raquel Tamarit i Iranzo ( Sueca, 1978) is a Valencian politician, Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of the

Generalitat Valenciana The Generalitat Valenciana is the generic name covering the different self-government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organized. It consists of seven institutions including the ''Corts Valen ...

, replacing the resigned Vicent Marzà since May 2022. She had previously been the Regional Secretary of Culture and Sport since 2019 and the mayor of Sueca (2015-2019).

Biography

Tamarit has a degree in teaching. She began teaching in 2000 in various centers in Catalonia and the Valencian Community. In 2005 she joined the Valencian public education system and 5 years later her job got her job as a civil servant at the ''El Perelló de Sueca'' primary school, as an English language specialist. As a politician, Raquel Tamarit began her membership in the Valencian student union Bloc d'Estudiants Agermanats (BEA) and in 1997 joined the

Unitat del Poble Valencià The Valencian People's Union (in Valencian: ''Unitat del Poble Valencià'', UPV) was a political alliance created in 1982 when the Left Grouping of the Valencian Country (AEPV) and the Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country (PNPV) merged to con ...

(València's Peoples Union), now part of the Més-Compromís coallition where she is nowadays affiliated. She was elected a local Sueca councilor for the first time in the 2007 local elections where she managed the areas of education and youth in the local government chaired by

Joan Baldoví Joan Baldoví Roda (; born 7 August 1958, in Sueca, Valencia) is a Coalició Compromís politician, who has represented Valencia Province in the Congress of Deputies since 2011. Baldoví served as a local councillor for his hometown of Sueca fo ...

, whom she highlighted in the

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as the head of the formation. In the 2019 local elections she repeated as head of the list and managed to be the most voted candidate, but a pact between the PSPV-PSOE, PP and Ciudadanos removed her from the mayoralty. It was then, in July 2019, when Councilor Vicent Marzà appointed her as Regional Secretary of Culture and Sports of the Valencian Government, and she left the local council. In May 2022, she replaced Marzà as Minister of Education, Culture and Sports of the

in the government headed by the Socialist

Ximo Puig Joaquín Francisco Puig Ferrer, known as Ximo Puig (; born 4 January 1959), is a Spanish politician who has served as leader of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV-PSOE), the Valencian regional branch of the PSOE, since March 2012 ...

References

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