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María Rita Barberá Nolla (Valencia, 16 July 1948 - Madrid, 23 November 2016) was a Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia for 24 years, between 1991 and 2015; deputy for Valencia in the Valencian Regional Parliament (Cortes Valencianas) between 1983 and 2015 and senator by autonomous [No creemos que haya un problema estilístico] appointment [No creemos que haya un problema estilístico] from 2015 until her death. She was a member of People's Alliance (AP) and its successor, People's Party (PP) for forty years, between 1976 and 2016, when she was suspended.

Biography
She was born to [No creemos que haya un problema estilístico] Carmen Nolla Forcada (1921-2013) and José Barberá Armelles, her mother being [Creemos que esto es necesario para que haya una concordancia estilística] a Catalan ceramic business inheritor in Miguel Nolla's ceramic factory and her father being [Misma razón que el corchete anterior] a journalist and Valencian politician in the Francoist [Es el término aceptado por la Wikipedia] era. José Barberá was El Siglo Futuro's correspondent in Rome, and after that he worked in the newspaper Levante-EMV. In 1940 he was the director of El Correo Gallego, and in 1953 he managed the newspaper La Jornada, funded by Movimiento Nacional in 1941. He was the president of the Valencian Press Association in the 1930s and a member of the Valencian City Council.

Early life
Rita Barberá studied at the Institución Cultural Domus and she graduated in Political science in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia and in Information Sciences in the Journalism section of the Complutense University of Madrid. She worked as a journalist in Radio Valencia and as a tribunal and urbanism editor in the Levante [No vemos ninguna supresión]. . She was public official, getting the job after passing an examination in the now defunct special group of union economists.

In 1973, when she was 25, she was awarded the title of «Musa del Humor» (Muse of the Humor) in a literary competition called "Olimpiada del Humor" (Humor Olympics) established by the local government.

Death
She died on 23 November 2016 in the Villa Real hotel in Madrid, after being afflicted [No creemos que haya una inadecuación a la función textual] by a cirrhosis resulting in a multiple organ dysfunction syndrome She had a mass-received farewell. The day after her death, king Felipe VI of Spain expressed his sympathy in the Rey Jaime I awards ceremony and together with other Valencian Community and city of Valencia leaders praised her job as mayor.

Commemorations
The President of the Goverment Mariano Rajoy, lauded [Creemos que el registro es correcto] Rita Barberá as well as acclaiming [No vemos ningún fallo gramatical] her "extraordinary" work at the head [No vemos ningún fallo léxico] of the local government.

The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has posthumously awarded Barberá with the Golden Key of Municipalism. The award was received by Rita's relatives, among others, her three sisters María José, Carmen and Asunción Barberá.

Political career
Affiliated to People's Alliance in 1976, she was the promoter and founder of the party in Valencia.

In 1987 she was the head of the list of candidates in Valencia in the Valencian regional election of 1987 as well as the proposed candidate by People's Alliance to be president of the Generalitat; the candidacy obtained 476.000 votes in the autonomous community [No vemos ningún fallo léxico], less than half of those obtained by PSOE, leaded by Joan Lerma.

In 1983 she became a deputy in the Corts Valencianes, a position where she stayed up until 2015. Starting February of 1993 she was a member of the People's Party's National Executive Committee, becoming one of the most influential women in the party in the Valencian Community, as well as in all of Spain.

In the local elections of 1991, despite the [No vemos ninguna supresión] win of the then [Creemos que el estilo es correcto] socialist mayor of Valencia, Clementina Ródenas, Rita Barberá managed to be elected mayor of Valencia on 5 July 1991, thanks to the support offered by regionalist party Valencian Union. Starting [Basándonos en otros artículos, creemos que esto es correcto] 1991 she was reelected in the succeeding elections (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011), in all of them with supermajority [El sentido es correcto basándonos en la Wikipedia]. In 2007 she obtained her best result with 56,67% of all the votes and 21 councilmen against the socialist candidate Carmen Alborch. For the local elections of 2015 she was once again announced as candidate for the People's Party, but she lost the supermajority [Igual que el corchete anterior] as well as the position of mayor. Thanks to her position as mayor of Valencia, she was the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, a position she held from 11 November 1995 to 23 November 2003, when she became the vice president. She was the first mayor in the position of president to pertain to People's Party and the only one from any party until 2011.

In 1995 she became the first mayor to officiate a civil marriage. Years later she positioned herself against [No vemos ningún fallo gramatical] same-sex marriage. explaining that «there are many more ways to preserve rights for same-sex couples». She has also positioned herself against [Igual que el corchete anterior] abortions [Igual que el corchete anterior] declaring that «I have a great interest in life. I believe that if a cell, when inseminated, is capable of dividing into two, four, eight... it's because it's alive.» On June 2008, she was the president of the People's Party's 16th Congress, celebrated in the city of Valencia. She was proposed as head of the list of candidates twice for the Congress of Deputies for the province of Valencia, for the general elections of 2008 and 2011, as going by the polls she was one of the most highly rated politicians for the citizens, but in both occasions Rita Barberá declined the proposal. [No vemos ningún fallo estilístico]

Some of the most important events to have happened during her mandate in the city were the arrival of the AVE high-speed network to Valencia, the enlargement of the Port of Valencia, the enlargement of the Metrovalencia network, the construction City of Arts and Sciences, the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, and the enlargement of the Garden of the Turia.

In her more than twenty years as mayor of Valencia, the name of Rita Barberá appeared in various political corruption cases, such as Gürtel, Emarsa, Nóos or Imelsa. For a lot of time she was not accused in any of them, although she had to testify as a witness for some. However, after her exit as Valencia's mayor, the Valencian anticorruption office created two reports to send the proof against the People's Party senator towards the Supreme Court of Spain, and proceed to her accusation due to her links to the Taula case and the Ritaleaks case. This last case, Compromís's main argument against Barberá during her campaign in the 2015 local elections, was dismissed [No vemos ningún fallo gramatical] by the Supreme Court, although the same wouldn't happen to the Taula case.

The «Rita Leaks» case
In April 2015, the Compromís Coalition created a website called "Rita Leaks", announced on April 22, with the aim of wearing down Rita Barberá politically, then candidate for mayor of Valencia, taking advantage of the influence of the media that involves the opening of a procedure by the Public Prosecutor's Office [No vemos ningún sinsentido]. The website was presented at the headquarters of the Coalition by Joan Ribó and Mónica Oltra, who said that "this person has no limit, is out of control and is insatiable" and that "we do not know if she has been spending money on the cocktail cabinet or the spa. She lives like a king at everyone's expense. She does not know how to distinguish between her money and the money of others". Finally, 466 documents were published in which those of 34 people linked to bodies of the Valencian consistory, contained alleged irregularities. Between 2011 and 2014, they paid some expenses with public money, up to 278 000 €. This money was spent on travel, meals, and various acts of representation, of which 42 781 € were due to 88 invoices that were in the name of Rita Barberá, although among them were several that actually belonged to leaders of PSPV-PSOE, such as former minister Carmen Alborch. Compromís also announced that they would submit all documentation to the prosecutor's office to find out if it was grounds for crime. This fact had a great impact on the media,    so the mayor gave a press conference in which she justified the high costs because she "did not want any "tacky stuff" in Valencia." Regarding the Compromís website and the media repercussion, Barberá said that everything was due to a "contract between Compromís and laSexta",  to which the television channel replied that they had not signed anything with Compromís and also challenged them, in an ironic tone, to make a "SextaLeaks." .

After the preliminary investigation carried out in Valencia, on 18 May 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Valencia transferred to the Supreme Court (as it is the competent court) all the investigation into Rita Barberá's expenses as mayor during her last term as mayor of Valencia, which was a further step in the proceedings opened by the Economic Crimes section of Valencia. However, on 12 July 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court closed the case as they saw no crime in the protocol expenses reported by Compromís.

The Taula case
On 15 March 2016, Barberá appeared before the media just a day after the judge of Taula case gave her the chance to declare voluntarily in court to announce she accepted the judge's offer. The instructor observed signs of money laundering crime when she was Mayor of Valencia and charged the Valencian PP. The same day, the PP's Committee of Rights and Guarantees opened a file against Barberá and 54 investigated in Taula Case.

On 21 April 2016, the judge ordered the Supreme Court to charge Rita Barberá of money laundering. On 12 September 2016, the Supreme Court decided to open a criminal investigation for an alleged offence of money laundering when she was Mayor of Valencia. The PP requested that she renounced as senator, but she decided to leave the party and join the mixed group, thus preserving her privilege not to be judged by an ordinary court and her salary. On 20 October, the Supreme Court summoned her to testify as charged with money laundering, finally testifying on 22 November. However, she couldn't be judged, as she died two days after testifying in the Supreme Court, from a heart attack in a hotel in Madrid, where she had gone to attend the plenary session of the Senate.

The use of the Valencian language
She knew some Valencian, even though it wasn't her mother tongue. This didn't stop her from trying to express herself in this language, being target of controversy and jokes. One remarkable example is the incident that took place in the crida of the fallas in 2015 (the announcement of this festivity). She tried to give her speech in Valencian. It had a lot of grammatical mistakes, unfinished sentences and Spanish words. She was harshly criticised by the opposition and parodied in different media. One of the most repeated words on the speech, "el caloret" (according to the regulations of the Academia Valenciana de la Lengua the correct form should be "la caloreta") it became a trending topic in social media and target of numerous memes and jokes. Barberá subsequently apologised, although she thought the controversy to be out of proportions, as she strongly believed the word "caloret" existed in Valencian.

Others
There were other controversies during her mandates such as the Valencia Metro derailment, where 43 people died and its investigation was [No vemos ningún error gramatical] hastily closed, budgetary overspending and continuous constructive problems in the City of Arts and Sciences; the exorbitant cost of the Formula One circuit, which is currently abandoned, or the useless buildings left by the host of the America's Cup.

Biography
She was born to [EST] Carmen Nolla Forcada (1921-2013) and José Barberá Armelles,[3][4] her mother being [EST] a Catalan ceramic business inheritor in Miguel Nolla's ceramic factory[5] and her father being [EST] a journalist and Valencian politician in the Francoist [LEX] era. José Barberá was El Siglo Futuro s correspondant [GR] in Rome, and after that he worked in the newspaper Levante-EMV. In 1940 he was the director of El Correo Gallego, and in 1953 he managed the newspaper La Jornada, funded by Movimiento Nacional in 1941. He was the Valencian Press Association's president in the 30s[6][5] and a member of the Valencian City Council [EST].

Childhood [LEX]
Rita Barberá studied primary [LEX] at the Institución Cultural Domus[7] and she graduated in Political science in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia and in Information Sciencies [TIP] in the Journalism section of the Complutense University of Madrid. She worked as a journalist in Valencia Radio [LEX] and as a tribunal and urbanism editor [LEX] in the [SUP] Levante.[5]. She was public official, getting the job after passing a public examination [LEX] in the [SUP] special group of union economists.

In 1973, when she was 25, she was declared [LEX] «Musa del Humor» (Muse of the Humor) in a literary competition called "Olimpiada del Humor" (Humor Olympics)[5] established by the local government.

Death
She died [GR] 23 November 2016 in the Villa Real hotel in Madrid, after being afflicted [NFT] by a cirrhosis resulting in a multiple organ dysfunction syndrome[1] She had a multitudinous [EST] farewell.[8][9][10][11] The day after her death, king Felipe VI of Spain expressed his sympathy in the Rey Jaime I awards ceremony and together with other Valencian Community [LEX] and city of Valencia leaders [LEX] emphasized her job as mayor.[12] [SS]

Commemorations [LEX]
The President of the Goverment Mariano Rajoy, lauded [REG] Rita Barberá as well as acclaiming [GR] her "extraordinary" work at the head [LEX] of the local government.[13]

The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has posthumously awarded Barberá with the Golden Key of Municipalism [SEM]. The award was received by Rita's relatives, among others, her three sisters María José, Carmen and Asunción Barberá.[13]

Political career
Affiliated to People's Alliance in 1976[14], she was one of the promoters and founders [NMS] of the party in Valencia.

In 1987 she was the head of the list of candidates in Valencia in the Valencian regional election of 1987[15] as well as the proposed candidate by People's Alliance to be president of the Generalitat; the candidature [LEX] obtained 476.000 votes in the autonomous community [LEX], less than half of those obtained by PSOE, leaded by Joan Lerma.[5]

In 1983 she became a deputy in the Corts Valencianes, a position where she stayed up until 2015. Starting [GR] February of 1993 she was a member of the People's Party's National Executive Committee, becoming one of the most influential women in the party in the Valencian Community, as well as in all of Spain.

In the local elections of 1991, despite the [SUP] win of the then [EST] socialist mayor of Valencia, Clementina Ródenas, Rita Barberà managed to be elected mayor of Valencia on 5 July 1991, thanks to the support offered by regionalist party Valencian Union. Starting [GR] 1991 she was reelected in the succeeding elections (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011), in all of them with supermajority.[FS] In 2007 she obtained her best result with 56,67% of all the votes and 21 councilmen against the socialist candidate Carmen Alborch.[5] For the local elections of 2015 she was once again announced as candidate for the People's Party, but she lost the supermajority [FS] as well as the position of mayor. Thanks to her position as mayor of Valencia, she was the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, a position she held from 11 November 1995 to 23 November 2003, when she became the vice president. She was the first mayor in the position of president from the People's Party and the only one until 2011. [SS]

In 1995 she became the first mayor to officiate a civil marriage. Years later she positioned herself against [GR] same-sex marriage. explaining that «there are many more ways to preserve rights for same-sex couples». She has also positioned herself against [GR] abortions[GR] declaring that «I have a great interest in life. I believe that if a cell, when inseminated, is capable of dividing into two, four, eight... it's because it's alive.»[5]

Rita Barberà on her inauguration as mayor of Valencia in 2007

On June 2008, she was the president of the People's Party's 16th Congress, celebrated in the city of Valencia. She was proposed as head of the list of candidates twice for the Congress of Deputies for the province of Valencia, for the general elecctions[TIP] of 2008 and 2011, as going by[GR] polls she was one of the more[GR] highly rated politicians for the citizens, but in both occasions Rita Barberà declined the proposal.[EST][16][17]

Some of the most important events[GR] which happened during her mandate in the city were the arrival of the AVE high-speed network to Valencia, the enlargement of the Port of Valencia, the enlargement of the Metrovalencia network, the [SUP] City of Arts and Sciences, the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, and the enlargement of the Garden of the Turia.

In her more than twenty years as mayor of Valencia, the name of Rita Barberà appeared in various political corruption cases,[18] such as Gürtel,[19] Emarsa,[20] Nóos or Imelsa.[21][22] For a lot of time she was not accused in any of them, although she had to testify as a witness for some.[23] However, after her exit as Valencia's mayor, Valencian anticorruption[TIP] [SUP] created two reports to send the proof against the People's Party senator towards the Supreme Court of Spain, and proceed to her accusation due to her links to the Taula case and the Ritaleaks case.[24][25] This last case, Compromís's main argument against Barberà during her campaign in the 2015 local elections,[26] was dismissed[GR] by the Supreme Court,[27] although the same didn't happen to[GR] the Taula case.

The «Rita Leaks» case
In April 2015, the Compromís Coalition created a website called "Rita Leaks", announced on April 22 [28], with the aim of wearing down politically [GR] Rita Barberá,[29] then candidate for mayor of Valencia, taking advantage of the media loudspeaker [LEX] that involves the opening of a procedure by the Public Prosecutor's Office [SS].[29] The website was presented at the headquarters of the Coalition by Joan Ribó and Mónica Oltra, who said that "this person has no limit, is out of control and is insatiable" and that "we do not know if there has been spending [SS] on the bar furniture or the spa. She live [GR] like a king at everyone's expense. She does not know how to distinguish between his [GR] money and the money of others".[29] Finally, 466 documents were published in which alleged irregularities were collected from 34 people linked to bodies of the Valencian consistory that had between 2011 and 2014 some expenses, paid with public money, up to 278 000 euros, money spent on travel, meals and various acts of representation, of which 42 781 € were due to 88 invoices that were in the name of Rita Barberá,[30][31] although among them were several that actually belonged to leaders of the PSPV-PSOE, such as former minister Carmen Alborch.[26][32]  [EST, frase demasiado larga y SS la frase no se entiende]. Compromís also announced that they would submit all documentation to the prosecutor's office to find out if they are grounds [LEX] for crime.[33] This fact had a great impact on the media,[34][35][36][37][38] so the mayor gave a press conference in which he [GR] justified the high costs because "[GR]did not want[TIP] "cutrerías"[LEX] in Valencia. [39] Regarding the Compromís website and the media repercussion, Barberá said that everything was due to a "contract between Compromís and laSexta", [39][40][41] to which the television channel replied that they had not signed anything with Compromís and also challenged, in an ironic tone, that a "SextaLeaks" be [GR] made [42].

After the preliminary investigation carried out in Valencia, [43] on 18 May 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Valencia transferred to the Supreme Court (as it is the competent court) all the investigation into Rita Barberá's expenses as mayor during her last term as mayor of Valencia, which was a further step in the proceedings opened by the Economic Crimes section of Valencia.[25] However, on 12 July 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court closed the case as it [GR] saw no crime in the protocol expenses denounced [LEX] by Compromís. [29][32]

The Taula case
Rita Barberá in 2015

On 15 March 2016, Barberá appeared before the media just a day after the judge of Taula case gave her the chance to declare voluntarily in court to announce she accepted the judge's offer. The instructor observed signs of money laundering crime when she was  mayor [GR] of Valencia and charged the Valencian PP. On the same day [EST], the PP's Rights and Guarantees committee [ORT] opened a file against Barberá and 54 investigated in Taula Case.[44]

On 21 April 2016, the judge ordered the Supreme Court to charge Rita Barberá of money laundering.[45] On 12 September 2016, the Supreme Court decided to open a criminal investigation for an alleged offence of money laundering when she was mayor [GR] of Valencia. [46] The PP requested her to renounce as [GR] senator, but she decided to leave the party and join the mixt group, thus preserving her privilege not to be judged by an ordinary court and her salary. [47] On 20 October, the Supreme Court summoned her to testify as charged with money laundering, finally testifying on 22 November. [48] However, she couldn't be judged, as she died two days after testifying in the Supreme Court, from a heart attack in a hotel in Madrid, where she had gone to attend the plenary session of the Senate. [1]

The use of the Valencian language
She knew some Valencian, even though it wasn't her mother tongue. This didn't stop her from trying to express herself in this language, being target of controversy and jokes. One remarkable example is the incident that took place in the crida of the fallas in 2015 (the announcement of this festivity). She tried to give her speech in Valencian. It had a lot of grammatical mistakes, unfinished sentences and Spanish words. She was harshly criticised by the opposition and parodied in different medias [LEX]. [49][50] One of the most repeated word in the speech [GR] "el caloret" (according to the regulations of the Academia Valenciana de la Lengua the correct form would be "la caloreta") [TIP ]it became trending topic in the [GR]social media and [GR] target of numerous memes and jokes.[51][52] That's why Barberá apologised, although she thought the controversy was out of proportions  [EST], as she strongly believed the word "caloret" existed in Valencian.[53]

Others
There were others  [TIP] controversies during her mandates [EST] [TIP] like [GR] Valencia Metro derailment, where 43 people died and its investigation was [GR] hastily closed; [GR] budgetary overspending and continuous constructive problems in the City of Arts and Sciences; the exorbitant cost of the F1, [54] afterwards abandoned [EST] [TIP] or the useles [TIP] buildings left by Copa America.

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María Rita Barberá Nolla (Valencia, 16 July 1948 - Madrid, 23 November 2016) was a spanish politician, major of Valencia during 24 years, between 1991 and 2015; deputy for Valencia in the valencian regional Parliament (Cortes Valencianas) between 1983 and 2015 and senator by autonomous appointment from 2015 until her death. She was a member of People's Alliance (Spain) (AP) and her successor, the Partido Popular (PP) for forty years, between 1976 and 2016, when she was suspended.

Biography
She was born to Carmen Nolla Forcada (1921-2013) and José Barberá Armelles, her mother being a Catalan ceramic business inheritor in Miguel Nolla's ceramic factory and her father being a journalist and Valencian politician in the Francoist era. José Barberá was El Siglo Futuro's correspondant in Rome, and after that he worked in the newspaper Levante-EMV. In 1940 he was the director of El Correo Gallego, and in 1953 he managed the newspaper La Jornada, funded by Movimiento Nacional in 1941. He was the Valencian Press Association's president in the 30s and a member of the Valencian City Council.

Childhood
Rita Barberá studied primary at the Institución Cultural Domus and she graduated in Political science in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia and in Information Sciencies in the Journalism section of the Complutense University of Madrid. She worked as a journalist in Valencia Radio and as a tribunal and urbanism editor in the Levante. . She was public official, getting the job after passing a public examination in the special group of union economists.

In 1973, when she was 25, she was declared «Musa del Humor» (Muse of the Humor) in a literary competition called "Olimpiada del Humor" (Humor Olympics) established by the local government.

Death
She died 23 November 2016 in the Villa Real hotel in Madrid, after being afflicted by a cirrhosis resulting in a multiple organ dysfunction syndrome She had a multitudinous farewell. The day after her death, king Felipe VI of Spain expressed his sympathy in the Rey Jaime I awards ceremony and together with other Valencian Community and city of Valencia leaders emphasized her job as mayor.

Commemorations
The President of the Goverment Mariano Rajoy, lauded Rita Barberá as well as acclaiming her "extraordinary" work at the head of the local government.

The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has posthumously awarded Barberá with the Golden Key of Municipalism. The award was received by Rita's relatives, among others, her three sisters María José, Carmen and Asunción Barberá.

Political career
Affiliated to People's Alliance in 1976, she was one of the promoters and founders of the party in Valencia.

In 1987 she was the head of the list of candidates in Valencia in the Valencian regional election of 1987 as well as the proposed candidate by People's Alliance to be president of the Generalitat; the candidature obtained 476.000 votes in the autonomous community, less than half of those obtained by PSOE, leaded by Joan Lerma.

In 1983 she became a deputy in the Corts Valencianes, a position where she stayed up until 2015. Starting February of 1993 she was a member of the People's Party's National Executive Committee, becoming one of the most influential women in the party in the Valencian Community, as well as in all of Spain.

In the local elections of 1991, despite the win of the then socialist mayor of Valencia, Clementina Ródenas, Rita Barberà managed to be elected mayor of Valencia on 5 July 1991, thanks to the support offered by regionalist party Valencian Union. Starting 1991 she was reelected in the succeeding elections (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011), in all of them with supermajority. In 2007 she obtained her best result with 56,67% of all the votes and 21 councilmen against the socialist candidate Carmen Alborch. For the local elections of 2015 she was once again announced as candidate for the People's Party, but she lost the supermajority as well as the position of mayor. Thanks to her position as mayor of Valencia, she was the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, a position she held from 11 November 1995 to 23 November 2003, when she became the vice president. She was the first mayor in the position of president from the People's Party and the only one until 2011.

In 1995 she became the first mayor to officiate a civil marriage. Years later she positioned herself against same-sex marriage. explaining that «there are many more ways to preserve rights for same-sex couples». She has also positioned herself against abortions declaring that «I have a great interest in life. I believe that if a cell, when inseminated, is capable of dividing into two, four, eight... it's because it's alive.» On June 2008, she was the president of the People's Party's 16th Congress, celebrated in the city of Valencia. She was proposed as head of the list of candidates twice for the Congress of Deputies for the province of Valencia, for the general elecctions of 2008 and 2011, as going by polls she was one of the more highly rated politicians for the citizens, but in both occasions Rita Barberà declined the proposal.

Some of the most important events which happened during her mandate in the city were the arrival of the AVE high-speed network to Valencia, the enlargement of the Port of Valencia, the enlargement of the Metrovalencia network, the City of Arts and Sciences, the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, and the enlargement of the Garden of the Turia.

In her more than twenty years as mayor of Valencia, the name of Rita Barberà appeared in various political corruption cases, such as Gürtel, Emarsa, Nóos or Imelsa. For a lot of time she was not accused in any of them, although she had to testify as a witness for some. However, after her exit as Valencia's mayor, Valencian anticorruption created two reports to send the proof against the People's Party senator towards the Supreme Court of Spain, and proceed to her accusation due to her links to the Taula case and the Ritaleaks case. This last case, Compromís's main argument against Barberà during her campaign in the 2015 local elections, was dismissed by the Supreme Court, although the same didn't happen to the Taula case.

The «Rita Leaks» case
In April 2015, the Compromís Coalition created a website called "Rita Leaks", announced on April 22, with the aim of wearing down politically Rita Barberá, then candidate for mayor of Valencia, taking advantage of the media loudspeaker that involves the opening of a procedure by the Public Prosecutor's Office. The website was presented at the headquarters of the Coalition by Joan Ribó and Mónica Oltra, who said that "this person has no limit, is out of control and is insatiable" and that "we do not know if there has been spending on the bar furniture or the spa. She live like a king at everyone's expense. She does not know how to distinguish between his money and the money of others". Finally, 466 documents were published in which alleged irregularities were collected from 34 people linked to bodies of the Valencian consistory that had between 2011 and 2014 some expenses, paid with public money, up to 278 000 euros, money spent on travel, meals and various acts of representation, of which 42 781 € were due to 88 invoices that were in the name of Rita Barberá, although among them were several that actually belonged to leaders of the PSPV-PSOE, such as former minister Carmen Alborch. Compromís also announced that they would submit all documentation to the prosecutor's office to find out if they are grounds for crime. This fact had a great impact on the media,    so the mayor gave a press conference in which he justified the high costs because "did not want "cutrerías" in Valencia. Regarding the Compromís website and the media repercussion, Barberá said that everything was due to a "contract between Compromís and laSexta",   to which the television channel replied that they had not signed anything with Compromís and also challenged, in an ironic tone, that a "SextaLeaks" be made.

After the preliminary investigation carried out in Valencia, on 18 May 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Valencia transferred to the Supreme Court (as it is the competent court) all the investigation into Rita Barberá's expenses as mayor during her last term as mayor of Valencia, which was a further step in the proceedings opened by the Economic Crimes section of Valencia. However, on 12 July 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court closed the case as it saw no crime in the protocol expenses denounced by Compromís.

The Taula case
On 15 March 2016, Barberá appeared before the media just a day after the judge of Taula case gave her the chance to declare voluntarily in court to announce she accepted the judge's offer. The instructor observed signs of money laundering crime when she was mayor of Valencia and charged the Valencian PP. On the same day, the PP's Rights and Guarantees committee opened a file against Barberá and 54 investigated in Taula Case.

On 21 April 2016, the judge ordered the Supreme Court to charge Rita Barberá of money laundering. On 12 September 2016, the Supreme Court decided to open a criminal investigation for an alleged offence of money laundering when she was mayor of Valencia. The PP requested her to renounce as senator, but she decided to leave the party and join the mixt group, thus preserving her privilege not to be judged by an ordinary court and her salary. On 20 October, the Supreme Court summoned her to testify as charged with money laundering, finally testifying on 22 November. However, she couldn't be judged, as she died two days after testifying in the Supreme Court, from a heart attack in a hotel in Madrid, where she had gone to attend the plenary session of the Senate.

The use of the Valencian language
She knew some Valencian, even though it wasn't her mother tongue. This didn't stop her from trying to express herself in this language, being target of controversy and jokes. One remarkable example is the incident that took place in the crida of the fallas in 2015 (the announcement of this festivity). She tried to give her speech in Valencian. It had a lot of grammatical mistakes, unfinished sentences and Spanish words. She was harshly criticised by the opposition and parodied in different medias. One of the most repeated word in the speech "el caloret" (according to the regulations of the Academia Valenciana de la Lengua the correct form would be "la caloreta") it became trending topic in the social media and target of numerous memes and jokes. That's why Barberá apologised, although she thought the controversy was out of proportions, as she strongly believed the word "caloret" existed in Valencian.

Others
There were others controversies during her mandates like Valencia Metro derailment, where 43 people died and its investigation was hastily closed; budgetary overspending and continuous constructive problems in the City of Arts and Sciences; the exorbitant cost of the F1, afterwards abandoned or the useles buildings left by Copa America.