Different bonuses appeared on his payroll over the years for continuously working on duty at night, weekends and holidays, despite the fact that there was no record in the official records that he had worked tirelessly all those days. He worked for years -and until just a few weeks ago- as Administrative Economic Director of the Osuna Health Area (Seville), with a position at the Hospital Comarcal de la Merced, but it turns out that his position as labor personnel in the Andalusian Health Service (SAS ) was an administrative assistant and had accessed it irregularly, inflating his score in a process in which he was the only candidate and which was resolved in his favor even before the call deadlines expired. He also signed as head of group or head of personnel between 1990 and 2006 without having formal powers to do so, a situation consented to and endorsed by his superiors.

In a resolution signed this July, the director of the Andalusian Anti-Fraud Office (OAAF), Ricardo Puyol, informed the Ministry of Health of all these irregularities after an investigation in which all parties have been given a voice and have studied their claims.

The OAAF is the body created during the previous legislature, at the request of Ciudadanos and the then vice president, Juan Marín, after he failed in the first attempt made by his party while he was still president of the Board, Susana Díaz.

Finally, the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption, also called the Andalusian Anti-Fraud Office, was created by Law 2/2021, of June 18, and is a public law entity, attached to the Parliament of Andalusia, which acts with full autonomy and independence and its purposes are to prevent and eradicate fraud, corruption, conflicts of interest or any other illegal activity that harms the public interests of Andalusia.

Ricardo Puyol Sánchez (Granada, 1974) was appointed to head it, with twenty years of practice in the judiciary, four of which he served in Marbella, in the hard years of corruption linked to the GIL.

Since its launch, the OAAF has registered a total of 188 complaints, of which 76 were submitted anonymously.. The number of files has been increasing as the office was consolidated and it became known among the citizens.

There are another 46 complaints that have not been admitted due to a lack of “solid grounds” or because the facts described did not conform to the powers of the OAAF. Twenty of the complainants (11%) have claimed protection after denouncing irregularities.

Retaliation

The investigations into the irregularities at the Osuna Hospital began as a result of a complaint by the CGT union delegate at the health center, Francisco Espada, who had spent years reporting all these violations to the management without anyone paying attention to him and suffering retaliation for it. For example, the hospital management ordered that he be expelled from the premises that the complainant had in the building to carry out his union representation duties.. .

But a sentence issued on November 9 by the Contentious Administrative Court number 6 of Seville annulled that eviction considering that there had been a violation of article 18.2 of the Spanish Constitution and condemned the autonomous administration to pay the costs.

The trade unionist also denounced, and this has been proven in the investigation carried out by the OAAF, that in 2016, from the Economic Directorate of the Osuna Health Area, maintenance and conservation works were contracted for the Hospital de la Merced, incurring in a fraudulent division of the contracts and the duplication (the same benefits were contracted twice) of the contracted services, always for the benefit of the same company.

The Anti-Fraud Office has notified the Andalusian Health Service of the conclusions of its investigation, urging it to notify it of the steps it is going to take in a possible sanctioning, disciplinary, reinstatement, ex officio review or any other process that restores the legality and repair the damage caused.

Irregular party financing

Another investigation by the OAAF forced the Diputación de Huelva in 2022 to end the “irregular financing” of political parties with funds from the canon that residents pay for the water service to the company Giahsa, dependent on the Commonwealth of Services of the Province of Huelva.

In total, PSOE, PP, IU or Podemos distributed up to 2.4 million euros in 11 years. EL MUNDO denounced this abusive practice in 2015, but the Board has not acted against it until there has been a resolution from the OAAF after the complaint by the former deputy of Ciudadanos Julio Ruiz and Unidos por Punta Umbría.

About twenty people who were staying in two rural houses have been evicted in the last hours due to the forest fire that started yesterday afternoon in Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres), which currently remains at level 1 of dangerousness and that presents an uncertain evolution, as reported by the Junta de Extremadura. The extinction works point to a favorable progression but as long as the current weather conditions are maintained.

Specifically, on Monday afternoon, 14 people were evicted from the rural house called 'Virgen de la Cabeza', to which eight others from 'La Macera' have joined this morning. Last night there were several reactivations of the fire due to changes in the wind produced while the troops had difficulties accessing the area, which is why it has remained active in an area called La Aceña de la Borrega, within the municipal area. from Valencia de Alcantara.

At the moment, a total of 150 troops are working in the area, deployed in 12 ground units, five air units, ten aerial means, one heavy machinery, four natural environment agents and four INFOEX Plan technicians.. Likewise, media from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), the Cáceres Provincial Council and the Red Cross collaborate.

The authorities maintain level 1 of danger due to its proximity to isolated houses, although it is far from important population centers. The fire started at 4:30 p.m. in an area of meadows and scrub, heading for another of ridges and scrub that made extinguishing tasks difficult.

The purple sector of Sumar is not hidden. His intention to achieve competences in Housing matters in a future government formation is clear. And it is that despite a notable loss of power in the different autonomous communities, parties that made up Unidas Podemos form two of the three governments that the PSOE presides over or will preside over: Asturias, with the socialist Adrián Barbón, and Navarra, also with the socialist María chivite. In fact, the only council that Izquierda Unida occupies in the Asturian government is that of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Citizen Rights, led by Ovidio Zapico. In the Navarrese executive, Contigo-Zurekin will not only have the powers in Housing, Equality, Migration Policies and Youth, as announced yesterday, but will also adopt a rank of vice presidency.

After the formation led by Yolanda Díaz signed Alejandra Jacinto, a regional deputy for Podemos Madrid, as Housing spokesperson last June, a very similar position was adopted with respect to the one held by Unidas Podemos on this issue.. The most significant proposals that Sumar launched in his electoral program for 23-J were direct intervention in the real estate market to establish reference prices in stressed areas, giving public housing land a greater role with the help of Sareb or the creation of a tax for empty houses. All these measures had already been launched previously by Podemos in the face of 28-M in its program.

It should be noted that before being part of the political scene, Jacinto was a member of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgage. Just like Ada Colau. An association focused on the protection of those people who have been affected by a “very high” bank mortgage, as they state on their website.

FUTURE GOVERNMENT

Last April, Díaz declared that the Housing Law “converts, for the first time, housing into law”. The approval of her formation, despite not controlling the competent ministry at the legislative level, hinted that the acting second vice president wants to have significant control over Housing, a function that she could delegate to the Podemos sector of the coalition. In this sense, Jacinto herself, in an interview with EL MUNDO in May, declared that “the Housing Law would not have been possible without United We Can in Moncloa.”

Although the claims collide with the reality that concerns a future formation of Government. Currently, and also in office, the portfolio that has this competence belongs to Raquel Sánchez, from the PSOE. Likewise, the socialist force controls the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. Although if Sánchez wants to reissue his mandate, the distribution of portfolios could be more varied than in the last legislature. As Díaz already said after the general elections, the acting president of the Government will have to let “each political formation do its job”, something that “Sumar is already doing”. In other words, petitions independent of the line that they draw from Ferraz, which can range, for example, from the use of Catalan and Basque in Parliament to the de-judicialization to resemble their results to an amnesty for the fugitive president Carles Puigdemont.

The Region of Murcia has started the countdown to invest the popular candidate and winner of the elections, Fernando López Miras, as president or call elections. The blockade that prevents the formation of a government will end on September 7, either with an agreement between the Popular Party and Vox or with a call to the polls. Neither of the two parties like this scenario, but no one gives in their position. Not even the national turn of the Santiago Abascal party offering Núñez Feijóo its unconditional support has untied the knot that prevents the formation of a Government.

The leader of the formation in Murcia, José Ángel Antelo, was quick to clarify.. «The decisions that are made at the national level do not have an impact on the Region of Murcia, since they are different scenarios. We have obtained a representation of almost 18% of Murcians and we will fight so that their interests are taken into account, “he said in a statement hours after Abascal reached out to the PP.

This attitude of the national leader has been described as an “exercise of responsibility” by López Miras. «It shows a sense of State. And I think that that same responsibility, that sense of State, Vox of the Region of Murcia would also have to apply, unblocking the situation, “warned the acting president.

Murcia is, after the agreement in Navarra, the only community that has not formed a government and the first in the history of autonomy that may be forced to call its citizens to the polls due to the impossibility of reaching agreements. The parties have not met since July 4, when the PP expressed its intention to govern alone, agreeing to 88 measures, ceding the vice-presidency of the Regional Assembly and appointing former president Alberto Garre, now in Vox, as regional senator. They were relying on their 43% of votes and the 21 deputies (47% of the Assembly), only two of the majority.

Vox's response, after the agreement in the Valencian Community, was to claim the vice presidency and two ministries between Agriculture, Education, Family or Economy. Given the refusal to this “blackmail”, two failed votes and a month-long blockade watered by mutual accusations.

Who benefits or harms a return to the polls is unknown because the scenario is changing. According to the barometer of the Center for Public Opinion Studies in Murcia (CECOMP) published before the general elections on July 23, the PP would have obtained one more seat in the regional elections, which would have further strengthened its position of strength.. In fact, on 28M the Vox result was 1.6 points away from its expectations and in the general elections it fell in percentage of vote in all towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants and it was not the most voted in any. The Murcian PP, in the midst of a wave of change, was able to grow in the autonomous communities, capture 22.8% of the undecided vote and win the elections on 23J throughout the region.

Mobilization of the left?

The electoral repetition could weaken Vox in favor of the PP, but it is not without risks. The two electoral calls warn of various realities. The first is the enthusiastic mobilization of the right, which may be discouraged by the brake on change that Núñez Feijóo intended to promote, as well as by the weariness of third elections in less than six months.. They would have to be held 54 days after their call, which leads to the end of October. They could coincide with a possible investiture by Pedro Sánchez or with a new call for general elections.

But there is another piece of information collected by the regional post-election survey of the Murcian study center: the abstention hit the left and was primed with the PSOE, but among those who decided not to vote, up to 6.7% would have voted for the Socialists for barely a month after. And that wave could creep. In addition, Sumar appears on the stage, which could activate and unite the vote to the left of the PSOE and at least complicate the design of majorities, today turned to the right as in the last 30 years.

There is one last factor that leads one to think that electoral repetition is not the best option for any party, that they would be dragged back into a campaign, this time lasting one week, and to double spending that was close to one million euros in May, a maximum of 255,000 euros per game. A bite into the coffers of the formations that have been in a permanent campaign since last April.