2023-11-20 14:05:00
Updated Monday, November 20, 2023 – 11:20
The approval of the Science Law in 2022 has been the most notable achievement of this Valencian engineering company, which will not only be repeated at the head of the Ministry of Science and Innovation but will also add universities to its competencies.
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The approval of the long-awaited Science Law has been the most outstanding achievement of the Valencian Diana Morant (Ganda, 1980), which will not only be repeated at the head of the Ministry of Science and Innovation but rather that it will add universities to their competences.
Its continuity has not been a surprise since he was one of the profiles most likely to continue in Pedro Sánchez’s new cabinet. And the trust he has in her has resulted in him also commissioning universities, until now under the command of Joan Subirats, who had already announced that he would not continue in this new coalition government.
This telecommunications engineer He entered the Government in the middle of the legislature, during the great renewal of the Executive that Sánchez carried out on July 10, 2021. The until then mayor of Ganda left her position in the city council the next day, which she had held since 2015, to replace the astronaut Pedro Duque at the head of a ministry that he arrived ten years after entering politics, because She started as a socialist councilor in the City Council of her hometown in May 2011.
Although her name was mentioned as a possible socialist candidate for the Mayor of Valencia in the last municipal elections – something that did not sit well with the PSPV-PSOE -, Morant finally remained in the central government as a minister and in recent months as an acting minister.
During the 28 months in which she has been at the head of her ministry, Diana Morant has managed the largest science budget that has ever existed in Spain thanks to an increase in the money allocated from Spain, but above all to the injection that the European Union cohesion funds have provided. Thus, by 2023 the budget of his ministry reached a total of 3,991 million euros, 4% more than the previous year. Without counting European funds, the national budget grew by 20% compared to 2022 (within that total item, the national budget amounted to 2,610 million).
Upon joining Sánchez’s cabinet in the middle of the legislature, the Valencian continued with a good part of the projects started by Pedro Duquewho had worked intensely to carry out the Law of Science, Technology and Innovation, although the rule was finally approved during Morant’s mandate. On February 18, 2022, the Council of Ministers gave the green light to this law, which was approved definitively by the plenary session of Congress on August 25, 2022. The norm contemplates the indefinite hiring of researchers and protects stable and growing financing of public R-D+i with the objective of reaching 1.25% of GDP in 2030 -and 3% including private investment-, in accordance with the Science and Innovation Pact. Since the Science Law was approved a year ago, efforts have been aimed at its implementation, as it is a very complex text, and at combating bureaucracy in the Spanish scientific system.
Like Duque, the minister has boosted the space sector with the creation of a Spanish Space Agency, which was announced in May 2021 and was formally established last April, with headquarters in Seville. Its creation is an old demand of the sector that involves several ministries, in addition to Science. The Aerospace PERTE is underway, which will mobilize around 4,533 million euros between 2021 and 2025 (with a contribution from the public sector of around 2,193 million euros and a private investment of around 2,340 million), according to data from the Ministry. More money has also been dedicated to the European Space Agency (ESA), which has contributed to the selection of two Spanish astronauts during the last promotion, announced a year ago: Pablo lvarezas titular astronaut and Sara Garciain the reserve corps).
During his mandate, the launch of the National Volcanology Center in the Canary Islands or a maximum security biological containment laboratory in Madrid has been announced.
12 years in politics
Morant He completed his Telecommunications Engineering studies in 2007. at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and before entering politics she worked as a development engineer in the R&D department of the company Alhena Ingeniera between 2008 and 2011 and taught a Domotics course at the company SGS Tecnos. When she entered the Ganda City Council in 2011, she governed the Popular Party. In 2015, Morant headed the PSOE list, which was the second most voted, with seven councilors compared to the 12 of the PP, but he was able to govern thanks to the support of the five councilors of the Ms Gandia coalition and one from Ciudadanos. In the 2019 elections, she maintained the mayorship (it was the party with the most votes, with 11 councilors to which she added the four from the Comproms Ms Gandia Unida coalition).
Coinciding with her time as mayor of Ganda, she was a deputy in the Provincial Council of Valencia (2015-17), member of the Tourism Council of the Generalitat Valenciana (since June 2015), member of the Spain Convention Bureau (2016-2019). , member of the Territorial Council of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces and of the board of directors of the Port Authority of Valencia.
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