Calviño avoids explaining the case of her husband's contract for 15 days and covers it as an "attack on my family"

• Patrimony The former 'number two' of Calviño places the husband of the vice president with a salary of "senior management"

• The National Heritage Government hid information about the contest from those who competed with Calviño's husband

The first vice president, Nadia Calviño, avoids giving explanations about the express hiring of her husband,

, in

, despite the fact that it is a public job obtained thanks to the award of her friend and former subordinate

.

Both in the Congress of Deputies this Wednesday and on Onda Cero on Tuesday night, Calviño refuses to comment on her case and frames it in a campaign against her.

In the interview in

, whose main statements are reproduced below, he implied that the information in this newspaper is an attack on his family and that they are false, although he later conceded that the case exists, but that it has already been explained.

"For four and a half years I have been personally attacked with false information, misrepresentations of reality"

The award of a senior management contract to her husband was signed on December 2 by his former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy and current president of National Heritage.

The adjudication is real, it already generates rights in favor of her spouse and disseminated by the public entity itself on its website.

The vice president made a great financial sacrifice by agreeing to be a minister in 2018 from her position as director general of the

.

her but she is subject to scrutiny like all public office.

She also did not explain on her day the use of an instrumental company to acquire a flat in Madrid.

"Since they can't attack me, they try to attack my family"

It is her husband - who had a job in the private sector as marketing director of

- the one who jumps on the scene without complexes when he opts for public office, aware that the person responsible for the award is close to his wife.

De la Cueva has also publicly declared that the vice president is her personal "reference" and that "without her I would not be here."

Calviño supports that candidacy of her husband as she makes clear in her public reaction.

In Bee Digital they assure this newspaper that, although they kept her from key tasks because she was a politically exposed person, in no case did they force her dismissal.

"All the explanations have already been given by whoever has to give them"

Not even Calviño has given them when asked in interviews or in Congress, and the president of National Heritage began to give them to the board of directors of the public entity this Wednesday, twenty days after signing Manrique de Lara.

In all this time, De la Cueva has not provided solid explanations as to why she failed in her legal duty to abstain by incurring a conflict of interest for adjudicating having interested people for whom she feels "close friendship."

De la Cueva does so by minimizing his role in the adjudication, but in the very announcement of the position it is clear that he is the one who has the last word.

The process is also surrounded by unknowns such as that it was directed by a commission that, although described as "independent", is chaired by one of De la Cueva's lieutenants;

and it is presented as decisive, when it was only officially "advice" to the president.

It is also out of the contracting canons that Manrique de Lara won the managerial contract without a prior personal interview being carried out, neither on him nor on other candidates.

Defeated applicants also complain about a lack of transparency in the process.

Another ingredient is that the National Heritage regulations do not contemplate senior management contracts for a position like the one awarded to Calviño's husband, although National Heritage ensures that it has authorization from the Ministry of Finance to do so.

"Personal attacks are unacceptable from my point of view"

It is a statement widely shared in Spanish and European society, but it has not always been applied to itself.

In a public act, he called the then opposition leader,

, "brainless", without apologizing afterwards.

"Whatever I do, they attack me"

Casado assures that he supported his candidacy to preside over the Eurogroup against a popular European candidate, the Irish

.

"I have nothing more to add"

Thus ended the interview.

A senior official has the obligation to give all the necessary explanations on cases that generate public controversy and for which opposition parties demand clarification.

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