Jesús Salmerón Berga (born 1 December 1991) is a Spanish politician. He was a member of the

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from 2019 to 2023. He left the

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party in 2021 and the following year joined the People's Party (PP), being elected mayor of

Gátova Gátova (Valencian: Gàtova) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Camp de Túria in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spani ...

in 2023.

Biography

Salmerón was born in

Tavernes Blanques Tavernes Blanques (, ) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonom ...

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. He graduated with a law degree from the

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, and a

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in the penal system from the

University of Lleida The University of Lleida (officially in Catalan: ''Universitat de Lleida'') is a university based in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It was the first university founded in Catalonia and in the ancient Crown of Aragon. It was founded in 1300, using the ...

. From the age of 23, he has been a lawyer in the (ICAV). Salmerón worked as an assistant for

party in the

. Openly gay, he worked on LGBT-related policy for the party in the

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. He ran as a candidate for the

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in the 2016 general election. Salmerón became the national coordinator for Citizens' youth division in 2017. He was placed fifth in the party's list in the Valencia constituency; the top seven were elected. In May 2021, Salmerón was one of four Citizens deputies to leave the party in protest at its fall from 26 deputies to zero in the

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following an

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. In October 2022, he became the People's Party (PP) candidate for mayor of

, where he had lived since 2015. He won three of seven seats on the council and formed government with the support of the one member from the

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(PSPV), ending eight years of governance by the Citizens splinter ; he was the town's first PP mayor. He was also the first mayor in the municipality to take a salary, €31,800. Though Gátova had only 400 inhabitants and a budget of €500,000, his salary was still 75% of the maximum permitted by the law for a municipality of under 1,000 inhabitants.

References

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