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The Government intends to have everything tied up and well tied and maneuvering to avoid uncontrolled bleeding of data and information that it would prefer to keep under a blanket of opacity.
For this purpose, the Council for Transparency and Good Governance is presented as an obstacle to neutralize.
This is the message launched by the opposition forces -mainly, the PP and Ciudadanos- in view of the latest movements of the president of the organization,
José Luis Rodríguez Álvarez
, the executor of the dismissal of the Deputy Director of Claims,
Esperanza Zambrano
, to finally put
Carmen Montero
in her place
, to date technical deputy secretary general of the Ministry of the Presidency.
In short, a person of the utmost confidence of the first vice president, Carmen Calvo.
Zambrano, in charge of resolving the conflicts that confronted the Government with demands for information, had made a name for herself as a firm woman, always willing to open the way to data demands that would or might not suit the Executive.
Esperanza Zambrano was part of the founding team of the Council and has been key in promoting, even going through the courts, that the Government make public data that it wanted to hide.
The "purge" of the Government
His work at the head of the Claims subdirectorate of the Transparency Council has, however, come to an end.
She will be replaced, if nothing prevents it at the last minute, as this newspaper has been able to confirm, by the until now technical deputy secretary general of the Ministry of the Presidency, Carmen Montero, a woman from the circle closest to
number two in
the Government.
The Popular Party and Citizens have already registered in Congress requests for the appearance of the president of the Council, appointed in October 2020 to succeed the late
Esther Arizmendi
.
José Luis Rodríguez Álvarez is a professor of Constitutional Law;
former director of the cabinet of the Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts, the socialist
Francisco Caamaño
;
former director of legal coordination of the Presidency of the Government with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former director of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.
Popular
and
oranges
demand explanations of a "purge" that, in their opinion, is only intended to shield Pedro Sánchez from data and information that citizens have the right to know.
The PP has already requested the appearance of Rodríguez in the Territorial Policy Commission, and Ciudadanos has done the same in the Democratic Quality Commission.
In addition, the PP plans to register a dozen questions with a request for a written response to the Government, asking for explanations about the
remodeling
of the Council.
"They have decided", accuses the deputy
Vicente Betoret
, "to take over with militants" because it is "uncomfortable" for them.
Council budget
Betoret, a PP deputy, presented an amendment to the General State Budgets claiming to double the Council's meager endowment, and he did so in consequence with the complaint of lack of personnel and means made by the current president of the organization in his appearance, essential to access the position, before the Committee on Territorial Policy of Congress.
The amendment was rejected outright by the PSOE and United We Can, thus showing, in the opinion of the deputy, that the objective of the Government is to "block" based on similar appointments the work of the Council and, failing that, "kill it from starvation".
Now, the PP urges the Executive to explain the "pressure" that has been exerted on the president of the Council to proceed with the dismissal of the Deputy Director of Claims and the "suggestions" that have been made from Sánchez's cabinet to, predictably, try also change the director of the organization,
Javier Amorós
.
Likewise, the Government is asked about its assessment of the work carried out by the Council in recent years, the number of occasions on which it has rejected its resolutions throughout 2020 and the reasons why it has done so or the reasons for which he has been "so reluctant" to ignore requests for information.
Claims not granted
For example, the use of the Falcón by the president, the name of the committee of experts that has advised on the coronavirus pandemic or Sánchez's summer guests at Patrimonio residences.
The Government is also asked why it is allocated so insufficiently in the budget and, finally, if it considers that its "reluctant willingness to assume the Council's resolutions" is not another reason to generate "citizen mistrust" and undermine the "exemplary" of public officials.
The PP, in addition, demands the copy of the files corresponding to all the claims that have been ruled against providing information required by the citizens, as well as specifically those referring to RTVE salaries and private trips in official media of the president of the Government.
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