• Badajoz The audios of the mayor of Mérida with a worker: "Whoever denounces the City Council will not work or bailiff while the PSOE is"

The mayor of Mérida (Badajoz), Antonio Rodríguez Osuna, said today that he does not plan to resign after a telephone conversation was made public with a former temporary worker of the City Council where the councilor threatened him like the rest of the employees in this labor situation with never hiring them again while the PSOE were at the head of the City Council if they went to court to try to get a fixed position: "Whoever denounces the City Council will no longer work in his fucking life, nor as a bailiff, while the PSOE is there."

In this sense, and to questions from journalists in an act, Rodríguez Osuna has assured that he will expand the complaint against the former worker once "the blackmail has become effective" after the one he filed in 2021 "for blackmail, threats and coercion", because according to the councilor he threatened the Councilor for Personnel in his office with making these recordings public if they did not make him a fixed contract after having insisted on it "until on seven occasions," according to the mayor's version.

Also, on the requests of the opposition in the emeritense consistory to resign for the content of the audios, Rodríguez Osuna explained that he has sent to the municipal groups of the Consistory "the gross" of the recordings ", and has remarked that he "will not" leave his position in which he has two consecutive legislatures. "I'm not going to resign, I'm here on the spot, I'm going now to another presentation and therefore I have nothing more to say, everything is already explained," he said.

In this sense, he assured that he had only to clarify about the controversy: "I refer to what I said yesterday at the press conference. I explained it very clearly and if they (the opposition) consider that what I explained deserves it, they have the right to do so but I cannot tell you more than what I said yesterday in a 17-minute press conference."

The councilor also did not want to clarify if after the audios were revealed he has maintained contact with the secretary general of his party in Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara: "The private conversations I have are for me, because if not then we make them public again"

In addition, asked if he retracts the statements in which he is heard saying that the worker who denounces the City Council will no longer work in the consistory, the mayor has responded: "I explained absolutely everything, how the processes work, how hiring works in the City Council ..., which neither names the courts, nor any member is there, They are all civil servants," he concluded.

At one point in the conversation with the former municipal worker of the Parks and Works Service, the mayor snaps: "There are a lot of people, lifelong party colleagues, who have told me the same thing. We did him a favor to be working for a while, but not to stay for life. What happens is that people shake hands and take your foot", in reference to those hired in temporary employment exchanges on several occasions and who, they consider, that this system leads them to be working in fraud of law so they ask to be fixed, with the recommendation of the unions, whom the mayor also criticizes for advising in this way the workers who have this type of contract: "The unions are very smart, but they never put their face, nothing more than their mouths, and the one who goes to the 'trullo' is me and I will not go to the 'trullo' for anyone. "

Committee of Inquiry

After unanimously asking all opposition parties for his resignation, the Municipal Popular Group has registered on Friday a request for the creation of an investigation commission after the "scandal" that "has caused a national embarrassment for the city."

In this letter, sent by the PP spokeswoman, Pilar Nogales, alludes to these recordings in which the mayor "affirms that illegal activities are allegedly carried out and that they could be constitutive of crimes."

Given the "gravity" of these "statements" and to clarify these "extremes", the PP requests the creation of such a special investigation commission "to debug the political responsibilities that may exist and eliminate the doubts that municipal workers and citizens could have before the procedures of labor contracting and public tenders of service contracts. "

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