Jesús Salmerón

Jesús Salmerón Berga (born 1 December 1991)^[1] is a Spanish politician. He was a member of the Corts Valencianes from 2019 to 2023. He left the Citizens party in 2021 and the following year joined the People's Party (PP), being elected mayor of Gátova in 2023.

Jesús Salmerón
Member of the Corts Valencianes
In office 16 May 2019 – 20 May 2023
Constituency	Valencia
Mayor of Gátova
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2023
Personal details
Born	(1991-12-01) 1 December 1991 (age 32) Tavernes Blanques, Spain
Political party	People's Party (2022–present)
Other political affiliations	Citizens (until 2021)
Alma mater	University of Valencia, University of Lleida
Profession	Lawyer

Biography

Salmerón was born in Tavernes Blanques, Province of Valencia.^[2] He graduated with a law degree from the University of Valencia,^[3] and a master's degree in the penal system from the University of Lleida.^[4] From the age of 23, he has been a lawyer in the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Valencia [es] (ICAV).^[5]

Salmerón worked as an assistant for Citizens party in the Corts Valencianes. Openly gay, he worked on LGBT-related policy for the party in the Valencian Community. He ran as a candidate for the Senate of Spain in the 2016 general election.^[6]

Salmerón became the national coordinator for Citizens' youth division in 2017.^[5] He was placed fifth in the party's list in the Valencia constituency;^[7] the top seven were elected.^[8]

In May 2021, Salmerón was one of four Citizens deputies to leave the party in protest at its fall from 26 deputies to zero in the Assembly of Madrid following an electoral wipeout.^[9] In October 2022, he became the People's Party (PP) candidate for mayor of Gátova, where he had lived since 2015.^[10] He won three of seven seats on the council and formed government with the support of the one member from the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV), ending eight years of governance by the Citizens splinter Contigo Somos Democracia [es]; he was the town's first PP mayor.^[11] He was also the first mayor in the municipality to take a salary, €31,800. Though Gátova had only 400 inhabitants and a budget of €500,000, his salary was still 75% of the maximum permitted by the law for a municipality of under 1,000 inhabitants.^[12]

References

1. Salmerón Berga, Jesús (7 May 2023). "A dos gatoveras: mi abuela y mi madre" [To two women of Gàtova: my grandmother and my mother]. El Periódico de Aquí (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
2. "Jesús Salmerón Berga" (in Spanish). Corts Valencianes. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
3. "1 de cada 5 diputados electos de les Corts son alumnos de la Facultat de Dret" [1 in 5 deputies elected to the Corts are alumni of the Faculty of Law] (in Spanish). University of Valencia. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
4. "La lista de Jesús Salmerón y el PP para lograr la alcaldía de Gàtova" [Jesús Salmerón and the PP's list for mayor of Gátova]. Las Provincias (in Spanish). 26 April 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
5. "Un valencià és el nou coordinador de la Gestora dels Jóvens de Ciudadanos" [A Valencian is the new coordinator of Citizens Youth]. El Periòdic (in Catalan). 3 January 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
6. Aliño, Biel (18 June 2016). "Diversos e iguales: políticos que rompen el armario" [Different and teh same: politicians who break the closet]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
7. "Lista de candidatos de Ciudadanos en Valencia a las elecciones autonómicas de 2019" [List of Citizens candidates in Valencia for the 2019 autonomous elections]. Las Provincias (in Spanish). 2 April 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
8. "Todos los diputados electos para Les Corts en las elecciones autonómicas de la Comunitat Valenciana 2019" [All the deputies elected to Les Corts in the 2019 autonomous elections in the Valencian Community]. Las Provincias (in Spanish). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
9. Sanjuán, Hèctor (7 May 2021). "Cuatro diputados de Cs abandonan el grupo en las Cortes Valencianas y se van a los no adscritos" [Four Cs deputies abandon the group in the Corts Valencianes and move to the independents]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
10. González, Héctor (18 October 2022). "Jesús Salmerón, diputado que dejó Ciudadanos, será el candidato del Partido Popular en Gátova" [Jesús Salmerón, deputy who left Citizens, will be the People's Party candidate in Gátova] (in Spanish). Valencia Plaza. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
11. Soria, Amparo (17 June 2023). "El PSPV apoya la investidura del popular Jesús Salmerón en Gàtova" [PSPV support the inauguration of PP's Jesús Salmerón in Gátova]. Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
12. Soria, Amparo (14 July 2023). "Salmerón será el primer alcalde de Gàtova que cobrará y se asigna 31.800 €" [Salmerón will be the first paid mayor of Gátova and assigns himself €31,800]. Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2024.