PP and Vox will discuss the future of the Anti-Fraud Agency when the Corts groups elect a new head of the organisation, and this process is currently underway. Consell’s two-member party has questioned the body in the past and will examine possible changes in the near future, but will not rule out reducing its powers or even shutting it down.
Vox Ombudsman José María Llanos made clear this Tuesday his formation’s distrust of the Anti-Fraud. In fact, he blamed these doubts for Vox’s failure to present a candidate to replace the leadership, and suggested that the “next chapter” would be to “negotiate” with his partner at Consell “about his position, reconversion or disappearance.” Llanos later stated that one option would be to integrate their skills into an overall direction.
His counterpart at the PPCV, Miguel Barrachina, did not want to go that far, but at the same time raised doubts about the impartiality of the supervisory body during Botànic’s tenure. “The body could have done so much more,” he said, before ensuring that the PP’s aim in renewing Joan Llinares was for Antifraud to now “work with professionalism and integrity and be equally committed to all parties in its investigations”.
They do not know the recommended candidates
Regarding the process of selecting a new director, Barrachina and Llanos claimed that they did not know the proposed candidates and refrained from responding to accusations from the left regarding the closeness of one of the proposed candidates, Eduardo Beut, to the popular formation of the time. former president Eduardo Zaplana. “I can’t repeat their names. I have no idea, I don’t know who they are talking about,” the PP spokesman said, noting that in any case both Beut and Gustavo Segura were suggested. by civil organizations.”
Llanos repeated this claim. “I don’t know the candidates. There were two and I know they were not offered by any group. We will review their CVs and suitability and make a decision.”
PSPV and Compromís know the candidates and continue to question Beut’s closeness to the PP. Socialist ombudsman José Muñoz assessed that the proposal “shows that the PP wants a person who firmly trusts him”; in his opinion, this represents “a return to the worst past” by the public trying to control the public. institutions and institutions that they cannot control, such as the Cortes, impose locks.” This latest criticism was prompted by the calendar proposed by the PP and Vox at the Ombudsman Board on Tuesday, which, according to socialists, aims to avoid Carlos Mazón’s control sessions.
Joan Baldoví, on behalf of Compromís, made an ironic comment about the “surprising” nature of this nomination: “It was submitted at the last minute of the last day by a PP activist who introduced a close collaborator of Zaplana and was also a partner in a company.” Head of the “former president’s cabinet”.
On the other hand, Baldoví noted Segura’s profile recommended by “three associations that never suspect partisanship and are proposed by civil society.”