Diana Morant Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Most Excellent
Office:Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities
Term Start:12 July 2021
Primeminister:Pedro Sánchez
Office1:Mayor of Gandia
Term Start1:13 June 2015
Term End1:11 July 2021
Predecessor1:Arturo Torró
Successor1:José Manuel Prieto
Office2:Member of the Congress of Deputies
Term Start2:17 August 2023
Term End2:1 December 2023
Constituency2:Valencia
Otherparty:PSPV-PSOE
Birth Date:25 June 1980
Birth Place:Gandia, Valencia, Spain
Party:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma Mater:Technical University of Valencia
Successor2:Víctor Camino Miñana

Diana Morant Ripoll (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /diˈana moˈɾant/; born 25 June 1980) is a Spanish politician who has been Minister of Science and Innovation since 12 July 2021. She has been Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country since 2014 and Mayor of Gandia (Valencia) from June 2015 until July 2021.[1] She was also member of the Corts Valencianes, the regional assembly of the Valencia region, from July 2015 to May 2017.[2] She started her political career in the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) on 11 June 2011.

Life

Diana Morant was born in Gandia, Spain, on June 25 1980, the elder of two sisters. She studied at Abat Solà Middle School in Gandía and, later, she attended María Enríquez High School in Gandia. She studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), graduating in 2007.

After three years working as an engineer in the private sector, in February 2011, she was invited by José Manuel Orengo Pastor, who was Mayor of Gandía at that moment, to become a candidate of PSPV-PSOE, the Valencian branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, for Gandia in the Spanish local elections that were held on May 24th, 2011. She occupied the 5th position on the electoral roll. In those elections, PSPV-PSOE obtained 10 council seats and she was officially named councilor of the local government of Gandía on June 11th, 2011. During the 2011-2015 term, she was a member of the opposition in the city council.

In May of 2014, José Manuel Orengo, secretary-general of the PSPV for Gandia at the time, announced that he was resigning as the party's secretary-general. Diana Morant, the Secretary of Organization at the time, announced her candidacy to lead the party in Gandia. In June of 2014 she was elected Secretary-General of the Gandia socialist party.

In October 2014, Diana Morant took part in the PSPV's selection process for mayoral candidates.[3] She was unopposed, so she was proclaimed the socialist party's mayoral candidate for the city of Gandia for the 2015 Spanish local elections.

In the municipal elections of 2015, the PP (the Spanish conservative party) won 12 seats in the council, the PSPV-PSOE 7, the coalition Més Gandia 5, and Citizens 1. Three weeks later, on 13 June 2015, at the plenary session, Diana Morant obtained the support of the councillors of the PSPV-PSOE, Més Gandia and the mayor of Ciudadanos,[4] thus becoming mayor of Gandia, thereby ending four years of PP government. She resigned as mayor on 11 July 2021 after being nominated for the office of Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities by prime minister Pedro Sánchez.

Notes and References

  1. News: La alcaldesa de Gandía, sobre el incendio de Llutxent: 'Es de una virulencia como el de Grecia'. La Vanguardia. 2018-08-16.
  2. Web site: MORANT RIPOLL, DIANA Diputació de Valencia. https://web.archive.org/web/20151116035202/http://www.dival.es/es/presidencia/content/morant-ripoll-diana. dead. 2015-11-16. 2015-11-16. 2018-08-16.
  3. News: Diana Morant anuncia su candidatura a las primarias para la Alcaldía de Gandia. 20Minutos. 20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias. 2018-08-16. es.
  4. News: El gobierno más plural de Gandia. Levante-EMV. 2018-08-16.