Juan Manuel Badenas

Juan Manuel Badenas Carpio (born 1965)[1] is a Spanish politician of the party Vox.

[2] Badenas was a member of the People's Party (PP) and held positions in the Generalitat Valenciana, the government of the Valencian Community.

[2] Vox rose from two seats to four in the city council, and after over four months of negotiations, formed a coalition majority government with the PP; mayor María José Catalá named Badenas as her second deputy.

[4] In November 2024, Badenas went on holiday with his partner, fellow Vox councillor Cecilia Herrero, during the cleanup operation after extensive flooding in Valencia.

[5] In December 2024, a judge indicted Badenas for an alleged hate crime for having incorrectly attributed a murder to an immigrant; the legal complaint was made by the Socialist group on the council.