From the Post Office to Indra via Renfe or Enags: the revolving doors that Sánchez promised to close and have not stopped in four years

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2023-07-23 01:19:19

CSAR URRUTIA

MADRID

Updated Sunday, July 23, 2023 – 01:19

In 2019 the PSOE promises to ‘regulate’ revolving doors. His chief of staff was the first recipient of a list that covers the entire public sector.

Regulate conflicts of interest more effectively in the face of the revolving door phenomenon, precisely setting the conditions of incompatibility for the persons concerned and toughening the sanctions for non-compliance.

This is how it read in 2019 the first electoral program of the PSOE of Pedro Sanchez. Over the years, territorial quotas, prizes for personal loyalty and the rescue of senior officials in territories lost to the PP are the three keys on which Sánchez’s policy to occupy large public companies has been based over the last four years. The revolving doors have not stopped. For investments, billing, payroll… in this world there are hundreds of billions of euros at stake, in addition to the power provided by strategic sectors such as transport, communication, energy or defense. There are also very relevant ones such as the game in the State lotteries of Jess Huerta (former Minister of Finance in Andalusia)communications in Hispasatchaired by the former mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu -the only one who does not publish his salary- or directly considered an award, as is Stops for Pedro Saura (former Secretary of State for If Luis Balos in Fomento) or the Hipdromo de la Zarzuela. If it were necessary to personalize the finger that has named most of the high positions in these last four years, it would be those of Pedro Sánchez himself, Salvador Illapresident of the PSC and Mara Jess Montero, Minister of Finance. The three, each according to their criteria, have removed and placed high positions.

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Juan Manuel Serrano, former chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez and with a salary of 208,513 euros was the warning that the commitment of the revolving doors in 2019 was worthless. JChief of staff of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOEHis fidelity to Pedro Sánchez earned him a high position in a public company. It was in July 2018, barely a month and a half after the motion of no confidence that unseated the PP government. In these four years, Serrano has maintained a bitter struggle with the unions of the company with the most employees in the public sector, 49,000, who accuse him of having neither experience nor ability to run the company, much less take charge of its transformation. Serrano leaned on a strategy director, Avelino Castro, which finds even more the social situation in the company. After his departure, he appointed successor to Enrique Cervera, former spokesman for the Junta de Andaluca in the presidency of Manuel Chaves and from the EFE news agency. According to the UGT and CCOO unions, Serrano is the cause of the company accumulating losses of 1,000 million since I took office.

INDRA

In May 2021, the Indra board forced the replacement of its executive president, Fernando Abril Martorellto cede the position to Marc Murtra, industrial engineer, former CEO of Red.es, Joan Clos’ chief of staff at the Ministry of Industry and the highest salary of those chosen by Sánchez, with 586,000 euros. April Martorell had given a strong impetus to the transformation of the technology and defense company. But SEPI -with the former Andalusian minister and a trusted person of Mara Jess Montero, Beln Gualda (237,000 euros) in front– I decided that it was time to take an unprecedented turn for the first time in a listed company. The coup was not definitive because Murtra assumed the presidency without executive powers. But it would be completed a year later in a new assault by SEPI in collaboration with the activist fund Amber – commanded by the also president of the Prisa group, J.oseph Oughourlian– and in the Basque defense group SAPA. The operation took away no less than five independent directors and left the market regulator, the CNMV and its president, Rodrigo Buenaventurafor not intervening beyond censuring maneuvers that ignored the codes of good practice.

RENFE

In the Government of Pedro Sánchez, Renfe belongs to the orbit of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) led by Salvador Illa. Actually, that of the PSC is a quota that is extended to other companies of the Ministry of Transport directed by Raquel Sánchez and that you have another sample in Aenachaired by Maurice Lucena. But if the airport manager knew how to overcome the pandemic and not give any shock, at Renfe it was not like that. before to Ral WhiteRenfe was destined to Isaas Tboas, with a salary of 180,000 euros. To his then minister, Jos Luis Balos, Tboas’s resume to run a public railway operator with 13,000 workers on the verge of liberalization seemed the best: Murtra’s predecessor as cabinet director of the Ministry of Industry with Joan Clos, Montilla’s right-hand man in the Generalitat and Secretary of State for Transport until 2011 with Jos Blanco in Fomento when Blanco himself put an end to the era of Pharaonic infrastructures with that famous phrase that we have lived beyond our means. Tboas resigned in February due to the scandal of the commission to the CAF company of trains for a value of 258 million euros that did not fit through the tunnels of the network. But he has remained a director of the company’s subsidiaries. His replacement is Ral Blanco, also a senior member of the PSC, Secretary General of Industry and SMEs with maroto kings until December 2022, when he was relieved after the failure of the automotive PERTE.

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Beatrice Corridor, property registrar and former Minister of Housing in the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was part of the group that supported Pedro Sánchez in the formation of the new PSOE executive. Housing, which at the end of the legislature has revealed itself as one of the problems for which no solution has been found for four years, could have been a destination highly adapted to the profile of Corredor. But, although she appeared on the lists for deputy for Madrid, Sánchez called her to replace Jordi Seville at the head of Red Elctrica in February 2020, just formed his Government. With a salary of 546,000 euros at the helm of Redeia, which includes other companies such as Hispasat, chaired by the former mayor of Barcelona Jordi Heru, Corredor has set in motion the transformation of the company to diversify its activity towards sectors other than energy. With 546,000 euros received in 2022, his salary is next to that of the president of Indra, Marc Murtra, the highest of the senior positions appointed by Sánchez.

HIPDROMO

The Hipdromo de la Zarzuela, in Madrid, is a company belonging to SEPI and State Lotteries and Betting whose purpose is to reactivate the horse racing sector and promote an economic activity that highly creates employment and performs important social work, as explained by the company itself in its list of purposes. Just a year ago Pedro Sánchez ceased to his partner in the Madrid PSOE and head of communication Maritcha Ruiz Mateos as part of an operation to calm the waters within the party. Maritcha was called a month later to occupy the presidency of the Hippodrome despite the fact that the previous president had barely been in office for a year, who is paid with 113,000 euros.

ENAGAS

The energy operator is a listed company that has BlacRock and Amancio Ortega as its main shareholders… along with SEPI. It is the reason that his council is highly politicized, with the presence of former Zapatero ministers, JOs Blanco and José Montillaboth with a salary of 160.000 euros and a record of independents, such as the former PP minister, Ana de Palacio, or Cristbal Gallego, adviser to Podemos. Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri He is the CEO. Closely linked to the PSOE, his position will be more than doubtful in the event of a change of government. Just in case, BlackRock has bet against the company’s price by going short.

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