The report of a lawyer from Les Corts Valencianes recommends that Eduardo Beut, proposed to preside over the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, be excluded from the process given that the entity that proposed him does not comply with the legal requirement that establishes that the names be raised by “social organizations that “currently work against fraud and corruption in the Valencian Community.”
Beut was proposed by the Spanish Association of Managers for Public Administration (AEGAP) and was the favorite of the PP, although the popular ones always distanced themselves from the proposal. However, when the name Compromís became known, he already showed his suspicions that “a close collaborator of Eduardo Zaplana was proposed to direct the Anti-Fraud Agency.” The socialists also denounced Beut’s relationship with the PP. However, these are not the reasons why the lawyer opts to exclude Beut.
The report considers it appropriate to propose to the Les Corts Board that the challenge document presented in February by the president of the Civic Action against Corruption association be upheld and Beut’s candidacy be annulled. The report – after analyzing the AEGAP’s allegations about its participation in anti-corruption conferences and projects – concludes that the entity “is not an association established to work against fraud and corruption.”
For all this, in the opinion of the lawyer, “as long as the wording of the current law is maintained” and the requirement that those who present the names be social organizations that work against fraud and corruption, it cannot be said that the AEGAP complies with the requirements. The lawyer’s nuance is not trivial, and that is that the law of the Anti-Fraud Agency is one of those that PP and Vox want to change in their “reformist agenda.”
Furthermore, the report to which La Vanguardia has had access leaves the Mesa de les Corts with the possibility of making a “less strict interpretation of that requirement and adopting the agreement that, as a consequence of said interpretation, it deems in accordance with the law.” A debate that will take place tomorrow in the governing body of the regional parliament.
