What happens in Torrejón de Ardoz constitutes a paradigmatic example of the clientelistic networks that Ayuso's PP, as party sources convey to this newspaper, has been building in multiple Madrid municipalities, especially in those where the ‘populars’ have been governing for years without interruption, as is precisely the case in Torrejón. Specifically, in that municipality the PP has been governing uninterruptedly since 2007 and up to the present. It should be noted that Torrejón de Ardoz is an important Madrid municipality with more than 140,000 inhabitants and a budget exceeding 120 million euros.
As 'ElConstitucional.es' has been able to exclusively learn after an exhaustive investigation carried out through multiple and varied sources, there are several PP mayors who appear in the most recent history of the municipality (from Pedro Rollán -current president of the Senate- to Alejandro Navarro Prieto -the current mayor-) but the clientelistic network woven in Torrejón de Ardoz has a name of its own: José Luis Navarro.
Navarro, born in 1967 and with a degree in “Labor Relations - Social Graduate,” as stated in the biography shared on the City Council's website, was elected councilor of the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council for the first time at just 19 years old, and by 23, he became a deputy of the Madrid Assembly. Since then, he has been weaving a network of power and influence that surpasses, even, Torrejón de Ardoz and whose tentacles reach nearby municipalities. It is the total reflection of the power in the shadows, as so many Torrejon residents with whom this newspaper has been able to speak well know.
It is no coincidence, in fact, that the current mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz, Alejandro Navarro Prieto, shares a surname with José Luis Navarro. He is his nephew. And he has reached the mayoralty after the political “elimination” of the previous mayors and potential mayoral candidates, as sources consulted by ‘ElConstitucional.es’ report, that the ‘almighty’ Uncle Navarro executed.
The ’Navarro clan’ arrived at the end of February to the Madrid Assembly through Ainhoa García
The situation is out of control in Torrejón de Ardoz and they know it in Sol. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid, and her enforcers -Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ana Millán and José Antonio Sánchez- have no control over what is happening in that Madrid municipality. The one who rules there is José Luis Navarro.
Under this context, especially when the next municipal elections will take place next year, it is not surprising that Ayuso wants to try to control what is happening in Torrejón de Ardoz. And she has already taken the first step. At the end of February this year, an appointment caught the attention in the PP of Madrid : that of Ainhoa García, new deputy spokesperson for the PP in the Madrid Assembly.
It is not a minor detail that Ainhoa García, former deputy mayor of the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council, is the wife of the current mayor of the Madrid municipality, Alejandro Navarro Prieto, who, we recall, is José Luis Navarro's nephew. In other words, it is the clear ramification of the ‘Navarro clan’ in the Madrid Assembly.
But Ayuso and her enforcers were not only seeking control of the ‘Navarro clan’, but also to prevent the living image of nepotism from occurring in Torrejón de Ardoz, too crude even for José Luis Navarro: mayor Alejandro Navarro and deputy mayors Ainhoa García -his wife-, and also José Luis Navarro himself (who is, currently, deputy mayor of the municipality).
Francisco Javier Miguel Suárez: the paradigmatic example of the clientelistic network woven by the PP in Torrejón de Ardoz
The clientelistic network woven by the PP of Torrejón de Ardoz, and of which Ayuso and her executors are aware, has as a clear example a name: Francisco Javier Miguel Suárez.
The one who was president of the Brotherhood of Rocío de Torrejón de Ardoz, an important association with about 3000 members and that has great influence in the municipality, is now a councilor for the PP in the Villalbilla City Council -a Madrid municipality very close to Torrejón-. Political circumstance for which, precisely, he had to leave the presidency of the Brotherhood.
However, his connection with the Popular Party of Madrid goes back many years. There are countless times that, when he was even president of the Brotherhood of El Rocío, he positioned himself with the Madrid PP both on his personal social networks and in events, even becoming a representative of the PP in the municipal elections. And his neighbors in Torrejón de Ardoz know it well, as this newspaper has been able to verify.
And, certainly, the influence that being president of the Brotherhood granted him to condition the vote of thousands of Torrejon residents paid off for him. The PP of Torrejón de Ardoz, with the power of José Luis Navarro, found him employment in private companies but with a municipal public concession. And it is worth noting the word companies, in plural, because for lack of one, as 'ElConstirucional.es' has been able to certify from various consulted sources -including current workers of such companies-, they managed to place him in two.
On the one hand, he works as unqualified temporary staff in the current JV formed by FCC Medio Ambiente and Valoriza, which provides municipal cleaning services to the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council, and on the other hand in the OHL company which also provides services to the municipality. Specifically, as sources familiar with the situation tell this newspaper, in this latter company he works as “City Council inspector, although hired by the private company, who reviews the municipality's parks and gardens”. And he tries to make both jobs compatible with his political activity as a PP councilor in the Villalbilla City Council: he has requested, as recorded by ‘ElConstitucional.es’, days from the FCC-Valoriza JV to attend Plenary Sessions -as the Law, it must be said, assists him-.
“The PP introduced him into the cleaning company,” several workers from the private company with a public concession consulted by this newspaper assure. Not only labor favors. The PP of Torrejón de Ardoz also facilitated him being able to bullfight in the Torrejón bullring since “it is very difficult to be able to bullfight in that ring when you are not a professional bullfighter,” they reveal to ‘ElConstitucional.es’.
In summary, the PP of Torrejón de Ardoz, whose power resides in José Luis Navarro and which Ayuso now seeks to control, has woven a genuine clientelistic network with countless examples that this newspaper continues to investigate but which has as its paradigmatic example the case of Francisco Javier Miguel Suárez.
