The socialist group in the Valencia Provincial Council has requested that a commission of investigation be created to determine how the couple from the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, in this provincial institution, as there are “well-founded suspicions of cheating”, according to the PSPV-PSOE.
With this commission, they intend to know if the principles of legality, equality and impartiality were met in the hiring of Verónica Soler, Pérez Llorca’s partner, by the Valencia Provincial Council on a service commission.
According to the socialists, there are “well-founded suspicions that institutions have been used to benefit women in the president, in a case of plugging” and, therefore, it is necessary to know all the details of the hiring process, they explain in a statement.
The PSPV considers that the statements of the president of the Generalitat in recent days “have only increased suspicions and areas of shadow” regarding the hiring of their partner, and they remember that she urgently agreed to a position that she had not occupied for months and that has allowed her, practically, to “double the income” that she received in the Alicante City Council of Finestrat.
The Valencia Provincial Council, chaired by Vicente Mompó, of the PP, approved on March 3 the service commission—a mechanism that allows an official to occupy a public position other than the one earned—for Soler. The resolution justified the hiring of the candidate, who had administrative status in Finestrat, for the area of assistance to municipalities of the provincial institution due to the “urgent need” to occupy the position and with a salary of 52,070 euros gross per year, according to the salary tables of the provincial corporation.
Last Wednesday, Pérez Llorca reiterated that his partner had passed a municipal examination in 2009 and that when he left the Finestrat City Council for the Valencia Provincial Council he earned 38,017 euros gross per year and not the 25,000 that have emerged.
The Secretary of Organization of the PSPV-PSOE and provincial deputy, Vicent Mascarell, has stated that it is a requirement to preserve confidence in the procedures for providing jobs in the Provincial Council of Valencia.
He has said that he hopes that the PP, Vox and Ens Uneix in the Provincial Council “will not oppose shedding light on what seems like a textbook case of plugging away and that as many explanations as necessary are given to know how the hiring” of Pérez Llorca’s partner was justified.
