The Consistory of Alcalá, headed by the mayor of the PSOE Javier Rodríguez Palacios, awarded 18 minor contracts to the company A3 Design & Printing, specialized in digital printing and graphic arts, which has as sole administrator the husband of its Councilor for Equality, Patricia Sánchez.

The sum of these 18 minor contracts, for services such as backpacks, pens or notebooks, amounts to a total of 13,776.61 euros during this legislature, although to this we must add a series of invoices issued to A3 Design & Printing from the public entity Alcalá Desarrollo for a value of about 16,000 euros, according to the documentation to which this newspaper has been able to access. Among the concepts you can read from a canvas for "fairs free of sexual assault" to mugs for a "carol contest".

It was just this canvas the first commission that A3 Design & Printing received from the Consistory, according to the Portal of Minor Contracts of the website of the Treasury of Alcalá de Henares, in November 2019, four months after both Sánchez and the rest of the municipal government were invested. Before that moment, and according to the website of the Treasury, there is no relationship between this graphic arts company and the Mayor's Office.

Where there is a glimpse of a link is in the Linkedin profile of the current mayor of Equality of Alcalá. There he appears as manager of the company A3 Design. Asked about it by this newspaper, Sánchez, who goes as number 10 in the socialist list of the Complutense city in the face of the elections of 28-M, states that "the aforementioned company is 100% owned by her husband, with whom she is married under the regime of separation of property. "

"At some point, always before taking office as a councilor of the City Council, I carried out support tasks in a previous company and hence the Linkedin profile, which has not been updated since 2017. Later I worked in an airport company, until 2019 when I took office as a councilor, "explains the mayor of Equality.

From 2019 to date, A3 Design & Printing has invoiced approximately 400,000 euros, of which, according to municipal sources, 2.88% come from the City Council -a figure that increases to 3.44% using the information offered by the Minor Contracts portal-; and 4% of the public entity Alcalá Desarrollo (the 16,000 euros mentioned above).

The same municipal sources value that "this type of contracts are supervised by the technical, legal and economic services of the City Council of Alcalá de Henares". And they finish: "We invoice in this type of services an amount that exceeds 1,149,701 euros, the amount paid to this company represents 1.1% of the total".

These contracts, which are not illegal, are viewed with suspicion from part of the opposition that qualify them as "unethical", especially when the mayor of Alcalá, Javier Rodríguez, spoke in February 2022 about the controversy that took place between the former leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, and the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to collation of the purchase of masks to a company linked to the brother of this, investigation archived today both by Anticorruption and by the European Prosecutor's Office.

"It turns out that masks have been sold at the price of lobster and 20% of that price of lobster has been put in the pocket allegedly of the brother of the president of the Government of the Community of Madrid," Rodríguez said then, demanding that Ayuso "cannot remain one more minute" in his position and making it clear that "if that had happened to me or to any mayor of this region, would be resigned immediately."

Alcalá de Henares is one of the municipalities where both PP and PSOE are putting the greatest focus in the face of this 28-M, a town of changing vote although of left-wing tendency where, since 1979, it has been governed 28 years by the formation of Juan Lobato and 16 by the popular.

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