the choice of david mascort (Barcelona, 1969) to take the reins of the Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda Department can be interpreted as recognition of the work of the outgoing ‘councillor’, Teresa Jordà, at the head of this portfolio of bipartite soul. Unlike what has happened in Educació and Territori, where some see a punishment in the relays of Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray and Juli Fernàndez, here continuity is given to the line followed up to now.
mascotof the highest confidence Jordawill have to face the fight against the climate crisis and the modernization of the agricultural and fishing sector with the drought as a backdrop, a serious phenomenon that in recent months has brought into focus a ‘conselleria’ with a rather low media profile.
He former mayor of Vilablareix (Girones), it was for 11 yearsfrom 2011 to 2022, He has been in politics since he was very young.. He graduated in Economy and his first political positions were held in his region. In 2003 he was Vice President of the Gironès Regional Council and then, member of the Girona Provincial Council. He currently chairs the Regional Federation of the Republican Left in Girona.
It is enough to enter his Twitter profile to confirm that he really is a person with a political and party background. In recent days, he has tweeted against the municipal agreements between Junts and the PSC and was previously involved in the electoral campaign of his town, where ERC has obtained the absolute majority.
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Mascort comes to office from inside the ‘conselleria’where he had been Secretary General of Agriculture and was now Secretary General of Climate Actionde facto number two of the Department and Jordà’s most trusted person, which it used to replace. In the last weeks has visited the irrigators of the Canal d’Urgellhas participated in the unsuccessful talks from the top of the water or has accompanied Jordà in Madrid when participating in the Drought Table.
Taking into account the continuity, it is not expected that he will make big changes in Acció Climàtica, although we will have to wait. It is probable that the same people as up to now will remain in the intermediate positions and that they will try to continue the (unfinished) legacy that Jordà leaves behind.
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mascotwithout forgetting the drought, will have to address problems such as slowness of the energy transition in Catalonia wave farmers’ disaffection with the Administration in recent months, either because of what some consider insufficient aid or because of the management of the overpopulation of rabbits in Lleida. On the horizon, it has two laws to pass: The one of the waste and that of natural heritage.
It will also have to please the environmental sector. Here, several things remain to be done: you are about to create the Nature Agency and the European Commission is waiting to know how Catalonia protects the Llobregat delta. Ahead, there is also the challenge of what to do with the battered Ebro deltaanother humid area that represents ground zero of the climate crisis in Catalonia.