Overview
- Guinadell Orriols was appointed an interim agent of the Ripoll local police by mayoral decree on July 17 after a fast 'selección directa' process the town described as an operational emergency.
- A municipal decree dated June 30 records that Mayor Sílvia Orriols resolved key steps of the selection by naming tribunal members and fixing test content and the calendar before issuing a July 3 delegation of the formal signing.
- The mayor says she abstained from the process and that her daughter obtained the highest score, while Junts per Catalunya has asked her to delegate the security portfolio and she has refused to do so.
- The appointment order required publication in the Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Girona and the Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya but had not appeared ten days after the July 17 decree.
- The case follows an earlier open-opposition process approved in January that sat dormant for months, and it raises legal and political questions because Spanish public-sector rules require abstention in proceedings involving close relatives and allow delegation to prevent conflicts.