Political parties are using summer to purify their public curriculum. The case of the former director of the PP Noelia Núñez, who was forced to resign on July 23 after having invented her studies, opened a ban that has caused two other resignations, that of the socialist Jose María Ángel and that of the Extremadura counselor with PP and Vox Ignacio Higuero, while the politicians who have been forced to correct their public profiles are already or false titles. On Monday, his public curriculum changed the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, of the PP, and during the weekend it was known that the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, of the same party, also modified his for including formations that, in reality, never received.
The movements of the last days show that among some public leaders falsify their trajectories has become a recurrent practice, in a country in which passive suffrage is universal and, therefore, every citizen has the right to exercise as a representative of national, regional or municipal sovereignty and to present themselves to the elections regardless of the training you have or the previous works it has done.
Pedro Rollán, current president of the Senate, included, for example, in the curriculum that he presented in the institutions in which he was previously studies that he now does not incorporate into his record of the Upper House. When he was mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Rollán claimed to have a diploma in marketing at the Higher School of Marketing Studies, as still figure on the website of the Consistory. These studies also appear on their card on the PP website. When he was mayor, he also claimed to have a master’s degree in business administration and management at the same school. But neither diploma nor the master’s degree now appears in their Senate curriculum.
Sources from the Presidency of the Upper House consulted this Monday by Eldiario.es gave importance to this contradiction and reduced it to a decision of Rollán, which now ignores these titles in their curriculum for their private and unofficial character, and because they are “many years ago.” In fact, the journalist Antonio Maestre advanced this weekend in La Sexta that the Superior School of Marketing studies in which Rollán attended cannot issue official university degrees, since it is a registered center of ‘Technical and Professional Secondary Education’.
He has also modified his curriculum Xavier García Albiol, mayor of Badalona and brand new president of the National Congress of the July PP in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo was raised as president. On the website of the Barcelona City Council García Albiol no longer appears as a law graduate, which was what was so far in its official curriculum, but graduated in that matter. That is, it did not have a degree, a title corresponding to a five -year career in the old plan, but a degree title, the equivalent today. Albiol did not complete his studies of law as a young man, when he began them at the University of Barcelona, but some time later when he was already a well -known leader of the Catalan PP, through the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), which teaches remote training.
Ana Millán, the vice president of the Assembly of Madrid and ‘number three’ of the PP of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, appeared at least twice before her neighbors of Arroyomolinos, a town to the southwest of the Community of Madrid of which she was mayor, as “graduate in political science”, a degree that has never obtained, as recognized by the Millán itself and has advanced the chain Ser. In the electoral propaganda He distributed in 2003 and in 2007 he included those studies he did not do. “CircuScuScripta to an error in an advertising brochure,” Juan Bravo, an economic manager of the PP, has been justified on Monday, when asked at a press conference.
Neither Millán, neither Rollán, nor Albiol plan to resign as his partner of Noelia Núñez made on July 23 after knowing that she maintained three versions of her curriculum on three different websites (Fuenlabrada City Council, Congress of Deputies and the Francisco Marroquín University – their titles have no official recognition in Spain -, where she was supposed to be a teacher) and none of them was true. Until last month, he said to have the double degree in law and legal sciences of public administrations. In another of his curriculums he also added that he was a philologist in the English language.
Different versions in different institutions
After being caught, Núñez acknowledged that he had begun right at the Complutense University of Madrid, and then transferred the file to the National University of Distance Education (UNED), where he began “the degree in English studies” to, in 2019, enroll in a combined degree “of Law and Legal Sciences of Public Administrations”. None of his studies is over. And the lie made the leader, who had been promoted by Feijóo only a few weeks ago, had to resign from all his positions both in the party and in the institutions.
His case, that the PP presented as an exemplary despite the fact that Núñez lied in his curricula for years, forced the review of the public profiles of politicians in all areas. Last week Eldiario.es revealed, for example, that about twenty high positions of the Generalitat breached the transparency law by not publishing the academic degree they say they have. This information caused a kind of “panic” in the Consell chaired by Carlos Mazón where, as this newspaper has been able to know, the order to quickly find all the accrediting documents has been quick.
One of his trust positions, the Minister of Infrastructure, Javier Sendra, lied in his curriculum in the Diputación de Alicante by stating that he had two masters. Subsequently, he rectified the document and pointed out that they were courses. But when jumping to the regional government, one of these titles was a “master” of senior management in the curriculum on the official website of the Generalitat when it is actually a 140 -hour course that teaches a private business school in Alicante.
Before the Núñez case broke out, there were already PP leaders who were modifying their curriculum that had been inflated with non -existent studies. This is the case of the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, who, according to the website of the Congress, in 2000 he was a degree in Business Administration and Management, in 2004 he lost the degree and already what he appeared were studies in the direction and business administration and in 2008 the thing remained in a master’s degree in management and administration of business, a degree that held until 2011 in his public profiles. Now, in the official curriculum of the Board, that master does not appear.
It also happened with the mayor of Santander, of the PP. Gema Equal passed in 2017 of “Diploma in Magisterium” to having studies in that area, as Eldiario.es then revealed. And this Monday, Navarra news diary revealed that the president of the PP of Navarra and Foral Parliamentary, Javier García Jiménez, had corrected his official curriculum on the Navarra Parliament website. For years he was mentioned as entitled to an alleged degree in Commercial Management and Marketing, but, in reality, the popular leader studied between 2013 and 2014 an own title in the ESIC Business & Marketing School that is not an official university degree.
Political ammunition between parties
But the case of inflated or direct academic trajectories transcends the borders of the PP and already affects two other political formations. In recent days, in fact, there has been the resignation of the president of the PSPV and government commissioner for the DANA and also of a counselor of the Board of Extremadura that belonged to Vox. And it has, therefore, became political ammunition for cross accusations between parties, in an attempt to extend suspicions to many more political responsible.
In the case of the Socialists, it is José María Ángel, a historic party in the Valencian Community and current government commissioner for the reconstruction and repair of the damage caused by the Dana. Ángel presented his resignation after being accused of falsifying a degree from the University of Valencia, according to the Valencian Antifraude Agency. A training that, in addition, would have helped him to progress as a career officer allegedly fraudulently, in the event that an accusation that already investigates the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is demonstrated.
Although the PSOE accepted that resignation as the best possible exit for the party and for the leader himself, he has also used the case among his own ranks as ammunition against Carlos Mazón, which he accuses of manipulating the anti -fraud office for a political operation. “Mazón assaults the anti -file agency to use it against its political adversaries, it is creating the Valencian Kitchen,” said PSOE spokesman in the Valencian Parliament, José Muñoz.
Just one day after the resignation of the Dana Commissioner, another case jumped in Extremadura. The advisor Ignacio Higuero, who became part of the government of María Guardiola by Vox before breaking the training of Abascal to stay in his position at the Board with the PP, admitted to having lied to include in his curriculum that he was a degree in Marketing from the CEU in 1993, although those studies did not start in Spain until 2009.
Source: www.eldiario.es
