Vox expels his spokesman and deputy mayor of Valencia until he clarifies an alleged mistress in an award | News from the Valencian Community
The VOX guarantees committee has agreed investigate the award of a contract. The formation of the extreme right contributes four councilors to the government chaired by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, of the PP, which has 13 councilors. The sum of both reaches the majority, which is located in 17 councilors over a total of 33. Compromís has nine and the PSPV-PSOE, seven.
The suspension of Badenas opens a political crisis in the capital, just when the name of Catalá, who is also a regional deputy, sounds again as a possible substitute for the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, as the political siege increases for its management of the Dana. The mayor has assured this Monday not having « official communication » of Vox's decision. At the moment, it has not transcended whether Badenas will leave his councilor's minutes, nor the reaction of the rest of the councilors of the formation, very internally divided.
VOX has decided to perish to his visible head in Valencia, advanced by El Confidencial, Days after the general secretary of the party, Ignacio Garriga, ordered the opening of an investigation to Badenas for alleged irregularities in an award of the Activa Valencia Foundation, a municipal body that directs as a mayor of Employment, of a public contract awarded in August last year to the Mediterranean Institute of Sustainable Development (IMEDES) for 129,000 euros. Upon knowing this information, Catalá announced that the legal services of the City hall They would study the legality of the contract for the design and execution of a communication and advertising campaign in the aforementioned Municipal Foundation. Badenas is allegedly noted having negotiated the design of the contest bases.
The initial file was opened after the digital medium The objective Published that documents of the file prior to the tender of the contract carried in their metadata the trail of an employee of IMEDES, Javier Cebrián, husband of the Government delegate, the socialist Pilar Bernabé. « We have seen ourselves in the midst of an internal fight of the City Council and the manipulated document shows that we have not rigged anything, » Sources of Imedes said.
In addition, audios are being analyzed in which Badenas is heard in a meeting with other party partners, in which he speaks of an alleged agreement to prevent advertising campaigns from being implemented in the media not related to their ideas. In the audios, the former vice president of Vox was also criticized in the Generalitat Valenciana, Vicente Barrera.
Compromís formalized last Friday a complaint with the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office to investigate the Vox spokesman for the alleged crimes of influence peddling, political espionage and embezzlement of public money. The spokeswoman of the Valencianist Coalition of the left, Papi Robles, has described this Friday the situation of « serious government crisis. » “It is very clear that Vox brought corruption to the institutions and Mrs. Catalá is mainly responsible for opening the doors of the City of Valencia. We want to remember that this is the largest institution in which Vox is still governing, ”he said.
The socialist spokesman, Borja Sanjuán, has affirmed, on the other hand: “The fault that we are going to a scenario of instability, where the municipal government must be in a minority simply by political decency, because it cannot keep it a second more as a deputy mayor of this city, it is from María José Catalá that decided to join and tie the fate of this city to the extreme right and lists ”.
