Saturday, October 11, 2008

Rodriguez Ponga asked to clarify whether reports Blesa may continue in Caja Madrid

Vice president of Caja Madrid and former secretary of State for Finance with the People's Party, Estanislao Rodriguez Ponga, calling reports claimed that the "competent bodies" to clarify whether the chairman of the financial institution, Miguel Blesa, you can proceed to the front.

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Rodriguez made this statement at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the box which took place yesterday when he was commenting on a report by EL MUNDO. This newspaper published on Monday that a legal report in the hands of leaders of the PP maintains that Blesa should have left the chairmanship of Caja Madrid last day 12, after serving the legal deadline.

Blesa refused to take initiatives to clarify the matter, because in his view, there is no doubt legal. "I've talked to Mariano Rajoy, Esperanza Aguirre and Alberto Ruiz-Gallardn and tell me that there is no report that I've passed the legal time limit," said the president, according to sources close to the board. He also maintained contacts with his personal friend, former chairman of the Government, Jos Mara Aznar, who was the one who appointed him in 1996 in front of the box.

Therefore, in view Blesa, information on THE WORLD is "false" and the report mentioned in it "does not exist." This 17-page document argues that, Blesa has already passed the 12-year maximum period for legal stay in his office. It bases this conclusion that the president does not apply transitional provision fifth in the Madrid Box Act 2003 which allows for the current members of the board of directors continue until 2015. The report argues that the post of chairman of Caja Madrid is unique and has to be mentioned explicitly in the Act so that it is concerned, but this is not done fifth in the provision.

Blesa interpreted, for its part that it is applicable to it and that's why not only continues to face, but it is in the process of launching Cibeles, the financial corporation that must mark a milestone in the modernization and internationalization of the entity. The legal doubt on the continuity of Blesa is also of interest to the PSOE. "It's not a good confusion in financial institutions. There must be greater legal transparency," he said to this newspaper Antonio Miguel Carmona, currently secretary for economic policy at the Federation Socialist Madrilea.

Carmona, "there should be no subjective interpretations but clear criteria" and are favored to clearing the doubt. The spokesman was also critical of the socialist Blesa last July when it raised the scandal of the round trip of Carlos Vela, the executive of the financial institution that signed for Fadesa after Martins-authorized loans and then returned to the box days before that the real estate suspend payments.

In contrast, the board of directors yesterday, counselor socialist, Antonio Romero-owned by the old guard of the party in Madrid defended the interpretation of Blesa and had criticized that "attempts at destabilization of the box."

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Rodriguez did not specify in his speech which bodies should do a report on the mandate of Blesa. In the Caja Madrid is competent Control Committee, which "aims to ensure that the management of the Governing Council is conducted in the most efficient manner, complying with the laws and statutes and with the instructions received from the General Assembly" , According to the statutes of the fourth largest financial institution in Spain.

Control Committee, chaired by former deputy regional PP, Paul Bees, has a regular meeting tomorrow.

The council yesterday are not yet formalized the relationship of directors that will be part of Cibeles, but Blesa distributed a record of the Executive Committee in which members are appointed on behalf of the entity to the vice-presidents Jose Antonio Moral Santn ( IU) and Rodriguez Ponga, in addition to Mercedes Rojo (assistant Esperanza Aguirre), Francisco Baquero (Workers Commissions) and the aforementioned Romero (by the PSOE). They will join eventually as independent, among others, former Interior Minister Angel Acebes.

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