Badajoz increases to seven the positions for fire captain through internal promotion

The Badajoz City Council has added two new Fire Service Sergeant positions to the five already announced, meaning the current selection process will now resolve seven positions via internal promotion. The measure is adopted through a decree by the mayor, Ignacio Gragera Barrera, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz number 217, corresponding to Thursday, November 12, 2026, under the reference Announcement 4483/2026 (p. 2). It will not be necessary to open a new selection process.

From five to seven positions

The first point of the decree orders the accumulation of the two positions corresponding to the expansion of the 2026 public employment offer into the selection procedure for five Sergeant positions announced on September 5, 2025. The text establishes the result with an explicit formula: “thus resulting in a call for seven Fire Service Sergeant positions.”

The second point is limited to ordering the publication of the resolution “under the terms established in the rules of the call,” without altering the remaining conditions of the process.

Timeline of the file

• September 5, 2025: the BOP of Badajoz number 170 publishes the call for five Sergeant positions.
• October 13, 2026: the Local Government Board, in an ordinary session, approves the expansion of the municipal public employment offer.
• October 30, 2026: the DOE number 210 publishes that expansion, among which positions are two for Sergeant.
• November 12, 2026: the accumulation decree appears in the BOP of Badajoz number 217 (Announcement 4483/2026).

The ninth clause as the foundation

The decree relies on the ninth clause, seventh section, of the original call, which already foresaw this scenario: if during the course of the selection process and before the appointment proposal a public employment offer contemplating Sergeant positions were approved, those positions would be accumulated into the current call without the need for a new selection process.

The municipal body also invokes Article 57 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, which regulates the accumulation of procedures, and Article 3 of Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector, which lists the principles of rationalization, agility, effectiveness, economy, and efficiency in public management.

Characteristics of the positions

The positions share the same administrative configuration as the initial five:

• Special Administration Scale, Special Services subscale.
• Class Firefighting and Rescue.
• Group C2, in accordance with Legislative Royal Decree 5/2015, of October 30, which approves the revised text of the Law of the Basic Statute of Public Employees.
• Selection system: competitive examination (concurso-oposición) via internal promotion.
• Linkage: career civil servant personnel.
• Remuneration: emoluments of group C2 according to the current Job Position Relationship.

The call for applications therefore affects personnel who already serve in the corps and aspire to be promoted, not new external hires.

The reinforcement arrives at a time of operational demand for the fire station of the capital of Badajoz and increases by 40% the number of middle management positions to be decided in a single procedure. For the applicants, the practical consequence is twofold: the same process now offers two more destinations and the rules remain those published in 2025, without reopening of deadlines or modification of the syllabus.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Badajoz, number 217, November 12, 2026, Local Administration, page 2 (official reference: Announcement 4483/2026).