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The until now Vox spokesman and second deputy mayor at the Valencia City Council, Juanma Badenasstill does not clarify his political future after being separated from his positions in the party and in the local government before alleged irregularities in a public contract.
“I will continue defending the values and principles for which the Valencians chose me to be here,” he has limited himself to pointing this Wednesday during a press conference in the town hall in which he has not accepted questions from journalists after a long exhibition in which he has erected as a victim of a “political persecution” and a «Burdo Capucero Assembly»according to “demonstrates” the report commissioned to a judicial expert. “A 'Watergate' of the Valencian policy of 'Pepe Gotera and Otilio, fudge at home',” he repeated several times.
In the event that he will not give up the councilor's minutes and pass to the non -attached group, the Vox group would keep three councilors and the sum with the 13 of the PP would not reach the absolute majority of 17. The formation has not explained if it has already chosen its new municipal spokesman, although it has been disconnected from its so far representative in a statement: «Any manifestation or political action carried out in the name of Vox and does not have the support of the party ».
As detailed, Badenas has filed a complaint before the courts against those involved «in the Unauthorized Recording of Conversations strictly private and the assembly prepared and published by The Objective »about the alleged mistress of an Active València award, a foundation so far in charge, to a consultant in which the husband of the Government delegate in the Valencian Community works.
People who “could belong to different political formations and media”, so he has asked to investigate “other media received offers of this assembly and rejected it for their gross character.” He denounces alleged crimes of insults, slander, against privacy and documentary falsehood. In that letter, he points out that “for months he has been suffering various situations of harassment, harassment and pressure” for his position and for his position on the construction of the new Mestalla and the URBAN RIGHTS OF VALENCIA CF.
The València Activa Foundation, in charge of Badenas as Councilor for Employment and Training, awarded on August 8 for 128,951 euros to the Mediterranean Institute for Sustainable Development (IMEDES) the “design of communication campaigns through the organization of events with the media to make visible the different Active Valencia actions in order to promote the social economic development of the city.”
As published by The Objective, the Director of Communication of IMEDES and husband of the also Secretary of Equality of the PSOE, Javier Cebrián, would allegedly participated in the writing of the contest sheets before they were published on July 1 and the deadline for submitting offers was opened. Due to the tender, as indicated on the state contracting platform, only another company was interested. Cebrián has been working in the company for a decade, but he is not a member of it.
Asked by ABC on this matter, from Imedes they regretted that they had seen “in the midst of an internal fight of the City Council” and that the “manipulated” document provided by the aforementioned medium showed that They had not “rigged at all”. The opposition of Compromís and PSPV has taken the matter to the Prosecutor's Office.
Badenas said on Wednesday that some of the published documents correspond to the file of a tender of the Las Naves Foundation, in the hands of the PP, in March 2024. In the metadata of the same, he has influenced, the name of the Director of Communication of IMEDES does not appear, but that of technicians and that of a worker of the KPMG consultant who participated in the elaboration of the specifications of both competitions.
«Why did a KPMP lady made the specifications? Is there anyone in the City Council who has to do something with KPMG?», He has wondered, making veiled reference to the popular mayor José Marí Olano, who was a partner of the company until December 2023.
In the press conference, the lawyer Luis Ignacio Serra has accompanied him, who has been “for years” supervising the hiring of València Activa, an entity “used as a policy throwing weapon.” “Challenge to anyone to unbanque the legality of what has been done,” he said, while defended that in the approval of the specifications “work seriously” and several professionals intervene. “What has gone through my hands and what has gone through that of the technicians was legal,” he said.
Before the version of Badenas, municipal sources argue that the specifications echoes the publication and those that the mayor has alluded “They are not from the Las Naves Foundation” And they indicate that, months before the Valencia Activa contract, the consultant Imedes presented himself to a communication contest of this foundation and did not win it. They also point out that the specifications of any contract are public on the State contracting platform and “any person and company can access it and copy them.”
Governance “is absolutely guaranteed”
The mayor of Valencia, the popular María José Cataláhe formalized on Tuesday the departure of Juanma Badenas from the local government and said that governance in the capital of Turia “is absolutely guaranteed.” A few words that the Executive spokesman, Juan Carlos Caballero reiterated on Wednesday, in front of the criticisms of Compromís and PSPV, who see a “great instability” and “disgust” in the city.
The mayor's holdings pass from four to three, after eliminating that of Vox, which will hold the councilors of the PP María José Ferrer San Segundo, Julia Climent and Juan Giner. While the popular delegations do not suffer any change, Badenas' skills will fall into two Vox mayor. In employment and training they will assume them José Gosálbezwhile Monica Gil He will be the head of parks and gardens and the family area, major and traditions, where he already had some responsibilities.
Cecilia Herrerothe third councilor of Santiago Abascal in the Badenas Consistory and Couple, also does not undergo changes in the departments in his charge, which remain entrepreneurship and agriculture.
The Badenas, in the City Council of the Third City of Spain, was one of the most important positions that Vox currently held in the institutions after his departure from the regional governments he shared with the PP.
The National Directorate of the Party agreed on Monday the Temporary suspension of the rights of its spokesman in Valencia as an affiliate and its disqualification so that it can perform charge or function in the party or in its representation until the resolution of the disciplinary file that opened last week. «If at the end of the procedure it is considered that it has not committed any irregularity, it will recover its functions; But if it is considered yes, the procedure will conclude with his expulsion from the party, ”explained the training spokesman José Antonio Fúster.
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