José María Ángel Batalla

José María Ángel Batalla
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
2011–2015
Appointed byCorts Valencianes
Mayor of La Eliana
In office
1997–2015
Personal details
Born6 December 1956
Valencia, Spain
Political partyPSPV-PSOE
OccupationPolitician

José María Ángel Batalla (born December 6, 1956, in Valencia) is a Spanish politician. He has been mayor of La Eliana, a municipality in the province of Valencia, and was a senator appointed by the Valencian Parliament representing the community from 2011 to 2015.[1][2][3]

Early life

José María Ángel Batalla was born in Valencia in 1956 and has been a resident of La Eliana since 1985. He attended primary school at the Colegio Pío XII and secondary school at the Instituto Benlliure in Valencia. In 1975 he began studies in geography and history at the University of Valencia, where he was present for one year, and there is no record of him having completed them at any university.[4]

Political career

He completed a course in public management at ESADE, Barcelona in 1990. He is a civil servant at the Provincial Council of Valencia and head of service since 1992. Between 1993 and 1995, he was an advisor at the Ministry of the Interior.[5]

In 1991, he joined the governing team of the La Eliana City Council as Councilor for Sports and later as Councilor for Citizen Security. From 1997 to 2015, he served as Mayor of La Eliana.[6][5]

José María Ángel has been a member of the National Committee of the Socialists since 1996[5] and was Secretary General of the PSPV-PSOE in Campo del Turia from 2000 to 2007, as well as Secretary of Municipal Policy of the PSPV-PSOE until 2012.[7]

In 2015, he was appointed regional secretary of Security and Emergencies and general director of the Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response, a position he held until his resignation in September 2023.[8]

Later, in December 2024, he was appointed special commissioner for the reconstruction and repair of the damage caused by Cyclone Dana in different municipalities between October 28 and November 4, 2024.[9] On July 31, 2025, he resigned from this position in the context of the scandal of a false university degree in his personal file at the Valencia Provincial Council.[10]

In June 2024, the La Eliana city council, also from the PSOE, named the new House of Culture after Josep María Ángel, with the minister Diana Morant at the opening ceremony.[11]

Falsehood in qualifications

On July 29, 2025, a report by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency was made public, proving that the Diploma in Archival Science and Library Science from the University of Valencia that appears in his personal file, necessary to access a civil servant position in subgroup A2 (at that time group B) in the Valencia Provincial Council, is false, among other evidence, because said degree was not implemented until 1990.[4][12][13] That same day, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office opens an investigation into the possible falsification of the university degree.[14] On July 31, 2025, he submits a letter to the Ministry of Territorial Policy resigning from his position as Commissioner for the DANA. The day before, it is announced that the Valencia Provincial Council has opened a file on his wife, Carmen Ninet, for alleged irregularities in her qualifications for a management position.[15]

On August 8, it was made public that he was hospitalized in Llíria Hospital for attempted suicide.[16]

References

  1. ^ www.senado.es https://web.archive.org/web/20111218122332/http://www.senado.es/legis10/senadores/026_index.html. Archived from the original on 2011-12-18. Retrieved 2025-08-10. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Editor, News. "Joan Lerma y José María Ángel han adquirido esta mañana su condición plena de senadores :: elperiodic.com". elperiodic. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2025-08-10. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  4. ^ a b "El comisionado del Gobierno para la Dana falsificó su título para convertirse en funcionario". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  5. ^ a b c "DATOS PERSONALES Nombre:José María Ángel Batalla" (PDF). Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  6. ^ "José María Ángel Batalla investigado por su título 'fake'". okdiario.com (in Spanish). 2025-07-31. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  7. ^ "PSPV-PSOE.net". www.pspv-psoe.net. Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  8. ^ SER, Cadena (2023-09-05). "Javier Montero sustituye a José María Ángel como secretario autonómico de Emergencias en la Comunitat Valenciana". Cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  9. ^ SER, Cadena (2024-12-09). "José María Ángel, exjefe de Emergencias del Botànic, será el comisionado del Gobierno para la Reconstrucción de la DANA". Cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  10. ^ SER, Cadena (2025-07-31). "El comisionado del Gobierno para la DANA dimite tras el presunto fraude para ser funcionario". Cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  11. ^ "Este viernes se inaugura la renovada Casa de la Cultura | Ajuntament de l'Eliana". www.leliana.es (in Spanish). 2024-06-18. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  12. ^ Nieves, José Luis García (2025-07-29). "José María Ángel utilizó un título falso para lograr una plaza de funcionario, según la Agencia Antifraude". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  13. ^ Nieves, Gonzalo Sánchez,José Luis García (2025-07-29). "La carrera de José María Ángel para lograr un puesto de funcionario ni siquiera existía en 1985". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ B, F. (2025-07-29). "Anticorrupción investiga la posible falsificación del título universitario del comisionado del Gobierno para la dana". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  15. ^ "La Diputación de Valencia abre un expediente a la mujer del comisionado del Gobierno para verificar su titulación para un puesto directivo". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2025-07-30. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
  16. ^ Agencias (2025-08-08). "Hospitalizan por un intento de suicidio al excomisionado del Gobierno para la DANA que dimitió tras ser acusado de manipular su currículum". www.publico.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-10.


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