The spokesperson for the PSOE-M in the Madrid City Council, Reyes Maroto, announced this Thursday that her group is going to request the file of the process by which José Manuel Rodríguez Carballo, husband of the PP senator Javier, has been appointed as an official of the Consistory. Maroto, to see if the process has been “legal”, although in the eyes of the socialists, to begin with, it is not “ethical”.
The newspaper El País published this Thursday that José Manuel Rodríguez Carballo, husband of Javier Maroto, became deputy director general of Analysis and Evaluation of the general coordination of Mobility at the City Council in September, after a free appointment process in which According to the aforementioned media, another 22 people.
After the press conference after the Government Meeting, the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, stated that he did not know about this appointment until Rodríguez Carballo himself told him in the parade on October 12, where they coincided, time that he has assured that he has not spoken at any time with Maroto, in addition to highlighting that the other candidates for the position have not appealed the award.
The mayor explained how he found out about his arrival at the Madrid City Council: "I attended the parade on October 12, and in that parade there was, indeed, Javier Maroto and her husband, the winner of the plaza, and when I greeted him he told me , the winner of the square, 'mayor, I'm already working at City Hall'. He had no idea.”
He has also guaranteed that he has not had “any call, any message, any communication” from Javier Maroto either “before” or “after” his partner's incorporation into the municipal organizational chart.
Regarding the merits of Rodríguez Carballo, the mayor has indicated that his resume shows that "he is a person who has a consolidated level 30 in the administration, who worked for 17 years, if I am not mistaken, in a City Council and who then "He was in the private sector in a company of recognized prestige, and then he has been in a nerve center of administration such as the National Institute for Public Administration Training, where he has had the role of deputy director."
For her part, the socialist spokesperson at the City Council said that “unfortunately, this is not the first time that the Almeida Government has been involved in this type of scandal. We are going to request the entire contracting file, we are going to see if it is legal or not, but what I can tell you is that it is not ethical.”
Maroto, who has criticized the “immoral way that the City Council has of placing Mr. Maroto's husband and using the influence that Mr. Maroto has in the City Council,” has argued that it is an “opaque” hiring and that it “undermines the trust of “Madridians in the institutions.”
“These are always the ways that the Almeida Government has, of opacity, of delegitimizing institutions. What I always reproach him for, which is that institutional corruption that we, as you know, have already denounced," added Maroto, recalling that, since the mandate began, the PSOE-M has filed "two complaints with the Anti-Fraud Office. ”.
Maroto has indicated that, once they have seen the hiring file, the socialists “will take measures” in case they see “any irregularity.”
“But, regardless of whether it is illegal or not, it is certainly unethical, and, I insist, it undermines the trust of Madrid residents in the institution that should represent the general interests of Madrid,” Maroto added.
