The spokeswoman for the Valencian government, Ruth Merino, has indicated that the Vice President and Minister of Culture, Vicente Barrera, still has time to leave the companies he manages. El Confidencial has announced today that Barrera, Vox, appears on the boards of several companies a month and a half after his appointment to the regional executive. "He is still, after the constitution of the new Valencian government, within the two-month period given for them to declare assets and activities" Merino specified.
The also Minister of Finance, Economy and Public Administration has added that the incompatibilities of the ministers or of the high positions of the Valencian autonomous administration "are determined by law and are not determined by the headlines of the media." She has also indicated that there is a procedure by which the ministers and senior officials of the Generalitat have "a period of two months to make a public declaration of assets and activities" and she has specified that this period has not yet ended.
"That period has not yet elapsed," Merino explained, while stating that "there is an Office of Conflicts and Interests that assesses", once the declaration of assets and activities has been made, "if there is any incompatibility between the activities carried out by a minister" and that public office.
The spokesperson for the Valencian Executive has asserted that "that office will issue a report if appropriate or say if there is incompatibility." "Today, we cannot rely on headlines to say if there is an incompatibility," she insisted.
For their part, the opposition parties in Les Corts Valencianes -- PSPV and Compromís -- have announced that they are going to request the appearance of the Vice President of the Generalitat and Minister of Culture, Vicente Barrera, so that he "gives explanations as to why he does not comply the law" of incompatibilities when continuing as administrator of seven companies.
