The firefighters' consortium, sued regarding the Warehouse Manager process

The Consortium for the Fire and Rescue Service of the Province of Ciudad Real has announced the filing of a lawsuit against the selection process for a Warehouse Manager position included in the 2023 Public Employment Offer. The announcement, signed by the president of the consortium, Julián Triguero Calle, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ciudad Real number 216, dated November 9, 2026, as announcement number 3628. The lawsuit, registered as ordinary procedure 56/2026, was filed by José María Hidalgo Romero before the Court of First Instance, Social Section, Court No. 1 of Ciudad Real.

The communication is not a voluntary act of the consortium, but rather a response to a requirement from the judicial body. The Consortium explains that it is acting “in compliance with the provisions of article 151.5 of Law 36/2011, of October 10, regulating the Social Jurisdiction,” in accordance with article 49 of Law 29/1998, of July 13, regulating the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction. On this basis, the procedure is brought to the attention of “all interested parties” so that, if they deem it appropriate, they may appear and present themselves before the judicial body.

A selection process from the 2023 PEO

The litigation refers to the filling of a single Warehouse Manager position within the provincial consortium’s staff, assigned to the employment offer approved for the 2023 fiscal year. According to the published text, the lawsuit does not challenge the call for applications as a whole, but rather the development of the selection process for that specific position.

The consortium’s 2023 PEO is the same one that supports the bulk of the entity’s selection activity this year: it includes the thirty-six Firefighter positions for the labor staff, via the open competitive examination system, whose final list of admitted and excluded candidates was approved by the Presidency by resolution of October 5, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ciudad Real number 192, dated October 6, 2026.

Deadlines and effects of appearance

The announcement sets the conditions for intervening in the procedure:

• Deadline: the nine days following the publication of the communication in the provincial gazette.
• Late appearance: anyone appearing after the deadline “will be considered a party for the proceedings that have not yet expired.”
• Without appearance: the procedure will continue its course “without any notification of any kind being issued to them.”
• Body before which it must be formalized: Court of First Instance, Social Section, Court No. 1, of Ciudad Real.

The document is dated in Ciudad Real on November 5, 2026, and signed by Julián Triguero Calle; the Official Provincial Gazette validated it through the section head Juan Luis Cuadros Campo on November 6, 2026. The announcement occupies page 41 of 41 of the issue.

Second judicial front in a month

This is not the first lawsuit of this type that the consortium has communicated this autumn. The Official Provincial Gazette of Ciudad Real number 199, dated October 15, 2026, published announcement number 3337, regarding the lawsuit filed by Ángel López Peñalver, proceeding 65/2026, before the Social Section, Court no. 3, in this case concerning the selection process for three Unit Head positions of the 2022 Public Employment Offer. That announcement, signed on October 13, 2026, reproduced an identical appearance mechanism and the same nine-day deadline.

Both communications coincide with a period of intense administrative activity for the consortium, which on October 21, 2026, initially approved its general budget for 2027 in an extraordinary and urgent General Assembly, and which in August had processed a credit modification through extraordinary credits.

The publication means that any applicant who considers themselves affected by the Warehouse Manager selection process now has a formal route with a fixed deadline to join the litigation. For the rest of the interested parties, the announcement clarifies that the procedure will move forward even if no one else appears, so that the judicial resolution issued will affect the selection process regardless of the appearances.

Source: Official Provincial Gazette of Ciudad Real, no. 216, November 9, 2026, private announcements, p. 41 (official reference: announcement number 3628, CVE 6KDD5KL645mmFYMmFth6).