The provincial coordinator of the IU CordobaSébastien Pérez; the regional coordinator of IU in Los Pedroches and former advisor of IU Pozoblanco, Miguel Calero; The IU city councilor, Natalia León, and the lawyer Amanda Meyer announced this Monday the presentation of a complaint against the mayor of the city, Santiago Cabello Munoz (PP)and former human resources advisor María Inmaculada Reyes Cuadrado, for the alleged commission of crimes of continuous administrative prevarication and embezzlement.
During a press conference, the lawyer explained that “the complaint contains 45 documents that support the narrative of events, which explain in detail how the City Hall maintained a network of temporary hiring outside the rules and regulations of the labor market”.
Meyer stressed that “these contracts, in addition to the repeated rejections of the General Secretariat and the intervention reports, demonstrate a planned project aimed at weaving a clientelist network with the aim of promoting PP in the city.” “We are talking about decisions taken deliberately and sustainably over time, in which all technical warnings were ignored and the administrative apparatus was put at the service of partisan interests,” he underlined.
The three “fundamental” aspects
The lawyer highlighted three “fundamental” aspects of the complaint, such as “the temporary hiring of staff against the warnings of the General Secretariat; the non-compliance with administrative procedures when awarding contracts outside stock exchange regulations, which constitutes a serious attack on the principles of transparency and legality, and the particular case of the hiring of Jesús Torres, son of the secretary of the mayor, registered with Social Security and collected several salaries from the Consistory without there being a formal contract to protect him.
Thus, he underlined that “this situation illustrates the seriousness of the facts and the flagrant violation of the regulations for the benefit of those close to the mayor and his team”. According to Meyer, “the purpose of the complaint is for the court to investigate these events and determine the corresponding criminal responsibilities, taking into account the harm caused to the public interest and the impact on the democratic quality of the municipality.”
To this end, he asked the Court “to inform the City Hall to provide all contractual documents from 2020 to date, as well as to collect statements from City Hall officials and staff who may have knowledge of the facts.”
“It is essential that these acts, which constitute an abuse of power and a misappropriation of public resources, do not go unpunished,” he said, adding that they aim to “protect the rights of the citizens of Pozoblanco and to guarantee that the The town hall “recover its public service role.”
“Everything is not happening”
For his part, Pérez stressed that “the PP cannot ignore the serious events reported and must take immediate measures to clarify responsibilities.” “This affair marks a before and after in the management of town halls: everything does not happen,” he declared, stressing that “there are democratic principles and mechanisms which must be respected”.
The provincial coordinator of User interface He also highlighted “the responsibility of the PP, both at the provincial and Andalusian level”, and asked that it “assume the consequences of these events which directly affect the citizens of Pozoblanco”. “It is a question of public money and the democratic principles that govern us as a society,” he said, to assure that they expect “firm measures so that situations like this- these do not reproduce.”
