Albacete summons ten candidates for the firefighter sergeant exam

The Albacete City Council has set Monday, December 14, 2026, at 5:00 PM, as the date and time for the first theoretical exercise of the call for four Fire Service Sergeant positions via internal promotion. This is done through resolution 9225/2026, dated November 6, issued by the Delegated Councilor for General Coordination of Municipal Government Operation and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Albacete No. 132, dated November 13, 2026, in the third section (Local Administration), page 6, with official reference 31.199. The same administrative act approves the final list of admitted persons and declares the list of excluded persons empty.

The call affects four vacant sergeant positions included in the Public Employment Offers of 2023 and 2025, and is processed entirely through the internal promotion system, meaning the applicants come from the municipal fire department’s own staff. The file begins with the specific bases approved by agreement of the Local Government Board on May 14, 2026, which were published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Albacete No. 63, dated June 3, 2026, with a subsequent announcement in the Official State Gazette No. 211, dated August 27, 2026.

Ten admitted and no exclusions

After the correction period, the Qualifying Tribunal, meeting in a session on November 5, 2026, approved the final lists and closed the list of applicants without any exclusions. The ten admitted persons are:

• Pablo Alejandro Blanco Vizoso (order 1)
• José Vicente Campoy Molina (order 2)
• Óscar Cardo Briones (order 3)
• Javier Leonardo Gutiérrez Hernández (order 4)
• Rafael Madrid Almena (order 5)
• Sergio Núñez López (order 6)
• César Rodríguez Martínez (order 7)
• Francisco Javier Royo Sánchez (order 8)
• Sergio Saiz Morales (order 9)
• Andrés Tébar Alcázar (order 10)

The second section of the resolution is explicit: the final list of excluded persons includes no one. The previous provisional list, with admitted and excluded persons, had been published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Albacete No. 118, dated October 9, 2026, with a single and non-extendable period of ten business days to correct defects, counted from the day following its publication. Anyone who did not correct them within that margin was definitively excluded.

Exam venue: Carmen Street, 4

The first exercise, of a theoretical nature, will be held at the premises of the Employment and Economic Promotion Service, located at Carmen Street, 4, in the city of Albacete. The resolution does not detail the syllabus or the duration of the test, which are referred to the minutes of the Qualifying Tribunal incorporated into the file and the specific bases of the call.

The decree is based on the report issued by the Human Resources and Occupational Risk Prevention Service and on the functions delegated by the Local Governing Board through the agreement of June 22, 2023. The signature corresponds to the titular delegated councilor for General Coordination of Municipal Government Operation, Communication between Areas, Councilorships, Services, and Departments.

Deadlines for appeal

The resolution exhausts the administrative route and allows for two paths of challenge, according to articles 112, 123, and 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations:

• Optional appeal for reversal within a period of one month.
• Direct challenge before the contentious-administrative jurisdictional order within a period of two months, pursuant to article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13, regulating the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction.

Both deadlines are counted from the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Albacete.

Impact on the municipal workforce

The appointment on December 14 activates the final phase of a process that had been in progress for months and which directly affects the command structure of the Albacete fire department: four promotions through internal promotion that will be resolved among ten candidates who are already veterans in the service. The call arrives without withdrawals in the census of admitted candidates, a fact that clears the calendar and allows the theoretical exercise to be undertaken without prior disputes regarding the list of applicants.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Albacete, no. 132, November 13, 2026, Third Section. Local Administration, page 6 (official reference: 31.199).