The Human Resources Department of the Arrecife City Council has initiated the ex officio review of the decree signed by the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León (Partido Popular), in which his brother was promoted to Local Police officer, a higher rank than a regular officer of the same corps. This investigation could lead to the procedure by which six other officers were also temporarily promoted to officer being declared invalid.
The ex officio review procedure was initiated just a week ago, after the City Council Secretariat issued a legal report that concluded that de León should have abstained from signing the decree that allowed the temporary promotion of his brother as a Local Police officer.
It was the mayor himself who requested this report from the General Secretariat of the City Council a few days after the insular PP removed Ángel Vázquez from the Centers of Art, Culture, and Tourism, after it became known that he participated in the selection process that granted a permanent position to his son as a dishwasher in the public entity. De León requested that report five months after signing his brother's promotion, on May 14.
Sources from the City Council's Government Group have assured that they are not considering the nullity of the procedure, but rather that the review of the procedure seeks to "provide guarantees" to the seven officers, including the mayor's brother, who were promoted to the position on a temporary basis. However, the report from the Arrecife City Council Secretariat states that it will be this ex officio review that determines whether the act should be declared invalid, understanding that its total or partial nullity can be declared.
This legal document from the Secretariat states that de León should have abstained due to kinship, but also that it was the councilor Eli Merino (PP), who has delegated human resources responsibilities, who should have signed the decree and not Yonathan de León.
Thus, it will be the ex officio review in the Human Resources Department that determines whether the act can be declared null or voidable and whether the actions can be reversed so that the officers who were temporarily promoted to the position can remain in their posts.
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