More Madrid has demanded that the Regional Parliament Bureau reconsider the veto imposed by the PP on seven requests for the appearance of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, the chief of staff of the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in order for him to explain his pressures to journalists. The senior regional official promoted the hoax that two EL PAÍS professionals had harassed minors while investigating a ramification of the case of alleged tax fraud that affects Alberto González Amador, the partner of the conservative leader; stated that two reporters from
eldiario.es
They tried to enter the home that the couple shares, which this media has denied; and pressured a digital professional (“we are going to crush you”). Furthermore, Más Madrid requests that the refusal to debate in plenary session on the dismissal of MAR, as this advisor is known, and to analyze the relationship between the Community and the Quirón group, which is at the same time recipient of thousands of million from the Administration (with the company Quirónsalud) and the main client of the company run by the president's partner (with the company Quironprevención).
“The criterion followed by the majority of the Assembly Board is purely political and not legal-technical,” says Más Madrid about the rejection of their requests, which the PP adopted alone, by applying its absolute majority against Más Madrid and PSOE ―who wanted to give the green light to the appearances― and Vox ―which abstained―. “The rejection resolutions of the Board exceed their function of qualification and admission, carrying out a judgment of a material nature that is prohibited, a judgment of purely political and censorious content that contravenes parliamentary legality,” the documentation insists. which EL PAÍS agreed to. "Likewise, the agreements submitted lack express, sufficient and adequate motivation, which represents a breach of the Assembly Regulations, constitutional doctrine and constitutes a manifest violation of the rights of the parliamentarians of the Más Madrid Parliamentary Group."
The decision was the result of a “heated” debate. The PP, which remembers that there is no public money or contracts with the Administration in the case that affects the president's partner, did not give in on three key issues. First, considering that in the two debates on the dismissal of MAR that Más Madrid requested (and that is now demanding again, after being rejected) there was a hidden disapproval that has no place in the Chamber's regulations... despite Because black on white you can read the word “impeach.”
Second, that Rodríguez could not appear in the Assembly because he is not a senior official, since he does not have management responsibilities... despite the fact that MAR appears as a senior official on the transparency portal, which officially reflects the government organization chart; complies on his own initiative in his public profile on that website with the obligations of a senior position (publishing his assets, income, expenses...); and has the rank of general director. At that meeting, if the PP found arguments for its position in article 11.1 of the law of the Government and Administration of the Community of Madrid (“the President's Cabinet will function as an assistance and advisory body”), the left looked for them. in 11.3 of the same standard (“The Chief of the President's Cabinet, with the organic level of Director General, will be appointed and, where appropriate, dismissed by Decree of the Governing Council, at the proposal of its President [such as senior officials] "). And third, in that the content of some initiatives was not appropriate, since they have "value judgments", according to their criteria... despite the fact that the mission of the Table is to ensure only the technical origin of the proposals.
All of these issues will now be debated again on April 25, at the Parliament Table, which regulates the day-to-day running of the Chamber. But they are not the only reconsiderations that Más Madrid has requested. The party also wants to give free rein to the debate on two non-legal proposals that urge the Government to audit public-private collaboration in health "starting with the Quirónsalud group, as it has the largest number of concerts and a greater amount of population served”; or to recover “progressively (...) direct public management in all health centers of the Madrid public network.”
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“The role that the Board must play in the exercise of its function of qualification and admission for processing regarding non-legal proposals is limited to the verification of the formal requirements established by regulation, without also extending to the examination of the material content. of the initiative,” Más Madrid complains about the reasons for the rejection of the initiatives. “Although it is not up to this to assess whether “its prospective object” “is not typical of a Non-Law Proposition” or “contains a value judgment”, it is up to it and it must remember that the relevance of the propositions does not depend on law for the
ius in officium
of representatives has been repeatedly recognized by the doctrine of the Constitutional Court.”
And he concludes: “The Table agreements regarding these initiatives have unduly curtailed our right to exercise, without any illegitimate hindrance, the functions that the Rules of the Chamber confer upon us, also robbing the Plenary of the Madrid Assembly of the possibility of debate and pronounce on the proposed initiative. Likewise, the agreements lack express, sufficient and adequate motivation.”
The PSOE also wants its requests for appearances and debate on the case that affects the president's partner to be reconsidered, and which has put the relationship between the Administration and the Quirón group, which manages four hospitals in the public network, under the spotlight. of Madrid (Jiménez Díaz Foundation, under a concerted regime; and Infanta Elena, Villalba and Rey Juan Carlos, under a concession regime). As it is foreseeable that the PP will once again reject the initiatives of the two opposition parties, both the PSOE and Más Madrid will evaluate going to the Constitutional Court with an appeal for protection.