Court backs the promotion process that took the government sub-delegate to an A1 post
A court in Valencia has upheld the internal promotion process that let José Rodríguez Jurado, now the government's sub-delegate, move up within Canet d'En Berenguer town hall, after the Court of Auditors had already dropped its earlier probe.
Contentious-Administrative Court number 10 found that the process launched in 2022, through which Rodríguez Jurado advanced from professional subgroup C1 to the higher A1 category at Canet d'En Berenguer town hall -a municipality neighbouring Sagunto in the Camp de Morvedre district- showed no irregularity serious enough to justify overturning it. The ruling, which can be appealed, does not overturn the competition's rules or any step of the selection process, though it orders the town hall to formally process the request for an official review filed by the claimant. Spain's civil-service statute requires this kind of jump between subgroups to go through a competitive merit-based process, but leaves it up to each administration to decide whether passing through the middle A2 level is mandatory first -- which explains why the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF, created in 2016 to investigate administrative wrongdoing) reached a different conclusion in a similar case in Gandia. The town hall maintains it acted lawfully and notes that the Court of Auditors had already closed its file back in January. According to El Periódico de Aquí.