“It was a bad student. Popular? No, no. O He always had a lot of lip“. Miguel Ángel GallardoThe former socialist president of the Diputación de Badajoz, Afforado In the extremis In the Assembly or Extremadura and that will have to be tried by the Superior Court of Extremadura Justice for this maneuver.
Did exactly 20 hours in court Beatriz Biedma He accused it, on May 22, of alleged preaching crimes and influence on paddling. In short, from plugreportedly to the brother of Pedro Sánchez, David, In the provincial administration.
The Agora has caused that the order of Right Biedma has no effect, because Gallardo cannot be assessed more than by the Superior Court of Justice or Extremadura (CSCEXTL). The rest of the investigated will also be assessed with him, including David Sánchez-Castjón himself.
In a very hard new car, the instruction judge sends the cause to that higher copy, but not before he was shaving that he was able to commit ‘law fraud’. It indicates in writing: it has been possible by the resignation of a parliamentarian and the dismissal of the minutes of five other people carried out On the same day, in the same place – the headquarters of the PSOE of Mérida – and for the same notary. Until you come to Gallardo.
In his youth he was a bad student. Popular of the lower part, the title Electronic Maintenance ended at the Ies Cuatro Caminos by Don Benito, the nearest city Villanueva de la SerenaWhere Gallardo is a resident. He then obtained the school technician in the early children’s education in Cáceres. And started to work as Production -Operator -Inlator- in ImpralaA tomato package in Miajadas (Cáceres).
He spent four years there, while studying the diploma in social education for Und. Never exercised: already affiliated with Socialist YouthHe asked for vacations to present himself as a mayor to the municipal elections of his people, Villanueva de la Serena. Won. He took it 20 years until he resigned in March 2024 at the mayor’s office.
For so many absolute majority, something had to be good. ‘Yes. Many things for trade. And short distances, it’s beautiful. Young people … because the truth is that we are in less respect. There is little for us, we all go there. In fact, the struggle between Villanueva and Don Benito (the bordering city, more flowering) was always a young villain who also requires an anonymity.
Don Benito went up with a socialist mayor. “Villanueva no. Anyway, if today presented to the elections, Gallardo would undoubtedly win“, says the same source.” People are very happy. “
Since 2015, Miguel Ángel Gallardo has been president of the Diputación until May 21, when he resigned to be Autonomous substitute In the Extremadura meeting. Last February he assured El Español that he would not resign, under no circumstances, not to avoid the instruction of Rechterba. That is, so that his passage to deputy does not relate to a way to be investigated. After loving With Rocombolesca playedEven with President Extremadura, María Guardiola, it insisted to suppress the front.
“It has lipYes, “says a neighbor.” And It’s good at short distancesHe has a lot of sympathy, “he says, among other things, to illustrate the reasons for which he managed to be mayor with an absolute majority from 2023 to 2024. That year he resigned, although at the same time he was positioned at the same time with that of that of that of that of President of the Diputación From Badajoz.
The Carambola
Gallardo became mayors from carambola and for love. Not his, but that of the bride of a socialist councilor named Raúl Borrasca. “Borrasca married in June and the municipal elections were in May. It was a council member in the opposition in Villanueva de la Serena for four years. Borrasca gave the profile and had experience,” says a source of the Extremadura socialists.
But the bride ‘told her that while she presented herself to the elections in May, she did not get married or in June, nor on any date. He suspends the wedding. And then he resigned and resigned Gallardo chose, because there was no other“The same source continues. This emphasizes that” what life is, is married, and the six years of it were separated. “
When opening the mayor’s office in 2003, he is the political future of Miguel Ángel Gallardo who was the previous socialist mayor of the people, Francisco García Ramos. “They say I was his mentor, but it is not true. I knew him that he was from socialist youth, exactly that. I decided that 20 years in politics, of which 12 were in opposition, were more than enough.”
Of whom he was a Gallardo friend, was “of the secretary of the organization of the PSOE, Mercedes Amadowho was also regional deputy. Over the years he also left politics, by bars, “it summarizes.
A mayor of the Villanueva city council emphasizes El Español that “in his second business mandate, Gallardo began to fly Covered by the socialist Extremadura board. The problem is that after 22 years mayor he believed himself more than the account. It has no scruples. And he always wanted more: mayor, president of the Diputación, general secretary of the PSOE of Extremadura … His next step was to chair the community. “
Miguel Ángel Gallardo, in a recent image, during a party law.
Psoe
García Ramos emphasizes this newspaper that “I in the beginning supported him in the proposal of this organization of organization, Mercedes Amado. I did it for a year and a half: I am at the same time Mayor office, without salaryAnd I said I would be at Christmas the following year. “It was 2004.
The one and a half years was “tumultuous. Several councilors have resigned For disagreements with him. When I left, I praised him publicly. But then he started to have behavior that did not match the person I had met. He started persecutions against everyone who criticized him. “
Ask. – for example?
Answer.- He was in line with the board of socialist Extremadura that the urgency of a modest neighborhood of the city closed. I was furious because I had promised that they would not close and the neighbors also got angry.
It was then that the mayor Mercedes Amado – who was his councilor in the government team – accused of Instigate neighborhood protests for the closure of the health center.
He then also dismissed the son of Tomás Balsera, another PSOE councilor, for the criticism he poured out The villa that Gallardo had in the plains of OrellanaA protected area.
When he knew that the Seprona had given him a fine for that chalet, Gallardo defended his innocence and refused to resign that he had no conspiracy or therefore illegal house. Because he and his wife, he justified: “We are married in the regime of separation of goods“The plot and the chalet were in the name of his wife. Then the building was demolished.
V. – Were you the nickname “El Niño de la Katana”?
R.- No no. Another legend that is not mine. It was Ángel Calle, who was mayor of Mérida. And he came because who he dissected, Gallardo cut his head.
V. – What do you think of the brother of Pedro Sánchez and the opening of the oral process?
R.- I am not surprised if he could blame his wife for the villa. It is a Yonki of purple tickets. He just wants strength.
In April 2009, Francisco García Ramos expelled him from the PSOE for the criticism of Miguel Ángel Gallardo. “What happened is that he had to cut the legs of many people for him and I scammed,” he said at the time.
“For me, this man disappointed me because he believed he was a beautiful person. He has made his political way of progress, give up values They use the authentic socialists, “said Ramos. Pilar Joy.
The same consulted socialist sources indicate that, despite the performances today, Miguel Ángel Gallardo’s relationship with José Luis QuintanaThe government’s representative is poor. Quintana stopped the replacement maneuver of the Subdelegate of the government, Maribel Cortés, by Mari Cruz Rodríguez – The Fifth Restation – so that Gallardo could be the Extremadura meeting.
“They hate each other warmly. Here everyone knows that Quintana lost the mayor of Don Benito For the referendum to merge Villanueva de la Serena and Don Benito “.
The merger of both municipalities would have made them the third most important city in Extremadura, after Mérida and Badajoz. The referendum, held in 2022, was not binding. “It was a forced idea of Gallardo, who wanted to unite both municipalities”
“But it became so bad … because to give the numbers, it took two and a half hours to spread the results. And what they did was eliminate the zero voices. Don Benito’s people were very angry With Quintana “.