The placement of what has been until a few weeks ago Director of Communications of the PSOE as the new president of the Zarzuela Hippodrome represents another

impudent milestone in the long history of occupation

by the Government of organizations, institutions and public companies that today are in charge to people with no more merits than being very close to the PSOE or Podemos.

Maritcha

Ruiz Mateos

goes beyond all ethical and aesthetic principles.

She is a friend very close to Pedro Sánchez since they shared militancy in the Socialist Youth.

From his position as

dircom

The party said goodbye after the resignation of the deputy general secretary of the party, Adriana Lastra, with whom she was a close collaborator.

And just a few days it has taken Moncloa to look for this position for him,

a very well-paid bicoca

despite the fact that Ruiz Mateos does not seem to have knowledge of horse riding or have a resume that endorses him for the performance of these new responsibilities.

The matter causes a scandal because we are not even facing one of the many cases of cronyism in which

ad hoc

free appointment positions are created or offered in the Administration , a practice that is undoubtedly inadmissible when

it is exercised in an abusive manner

.

This is even more lacerating because it is an appointment at the head of a state public property for which the Government has had the submissive collaboration of

Belén Gualda

, the president of the Sepi, on which the Hippodrome depends.

She had to be the one who proposed yesterday to the Board of Directors of the State Industrial Participation Company the appointment of Pedro Sánchez's friend -we insist that she does not seem to have any other merit for the position-, who will replace whoever was Iván's second Redondo,

now relocated

as director of the Planning Office in La Moncloa.

The image conveyed by Sepi could not be worse, a strategic economic instrument required by law to guide all its actions in the public interest, and which manages a very important portfolio of securities, including holdings in Ibex companies.

That Belén Gualda folds so diligently to satisfy these orders from Sánchez

plunges her into disrepute

and leads to further questioning her role in other controversial operations such as the government assault on Indra, the great strategic Spanish technology company whose majority shareholder is the State Company of Industrial Holdings.

The same Sánchez who, from the opposition, declared war on "enchufismo" and who advocated "decolonizing all institutions by promoting meritocracy", today continues to plague them with those related to his person or to the party,

abusing "enchufismo" and in some cases the crudest nepotism

.

Not to mention the almost 400 advisers at his service, 40% more than Rajoy had, whom he criticized so much.

So it is not surprising that from the PP it is criticized that "a politburo is being created."

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