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 Vicent Marzà i Ibáñez (; Castelló de la Plana, March 3, 1983) is a Valencian teacher and politician, member of the Valencian Parliament for Compromís and member of Més–Compromís. Between 2015 and 2022 he was Minister of Education, Rese ...

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 (València's Peoples Union), now part of the Més-Compromís coalition 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 Spanish politician, who has represented Valencia Province in the Congress of Deputies The Congress of Deputies () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, th ...

, whom she highlighted in the

2015 elections Africa * 2015 Beninese parliamentary election 26 April 2015 * 2015 Burkinabé general election 29 November 2015 * 2015 Burundian legislative election 29 June 2015 * 2015 Burundian presidential election 21 July 2015 * 2015-16 Central African gene ...

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

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 (born 4 January 1959), known as Ximo Puig (), is a Spanish politician who served as President of the Valencian Government from 2015 to 2023. He was also the leader of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country ...

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