Elisa García Rodríguez, new head of the Asturian Good Governance Office

The Transparency and Good Governance Council of the Principality of Asturias has appointed Elisa García Rodríguez as the new head of the Office of Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption, position CG 88/9. The decision is contained in Resolution number 17/2026, of November 6, 2026, from the Presidency of the body, published in the Official Gazette of the Principality of Asturias (BOPA) no. 219, of November 12, 2026, with the official reference 2026-09250. The regulation resolves the call for provision by free appointment and details the candidacies submitted and the suitability assessment.

The position is a singularized post with a destination supplement level of 30, with annual specific supplement C, assigned to the Administration of the Principality of Asturias, subgroup A1, Higher Administrative Corps (G001), requiring a Bachelor’s degree or Degree in Law and based in Oviedo. The call was made via Resolution no. 7/2026, of September 3, published in BOPA no. 174, of September 9, with a correction of material error in no. 175, of September 10, under file CTBG-PA/CSV/2026/0001; the procedure was processed with the reference CTBG-PA/CSV/2026/0005. The applied framework is Article 80 of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee (Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015), Article 65 of the Law of the Principality of Asturias 2/2023, of March 15, on Public Employment, and Decree 22/1993, of April 29; the competence to resolve corresponds to the Presidency under Article 66.1 g) of the Law of the Principality of Asturias 8/2018, of September 14, on Transparency, Good Governance and Interest Groups, within a maximum period of two months.

Six applications and one exclusion

The submission period, of twenty business days, took place between September 10 and October 8, 2026. Six candidacies were submitted, in order of entry into the registry:

• Álvaro González Marín
• Javier Fernández Anaut
• Elisa García Rodríguez
• Consuelo Rodríguez Velázquez
• Alejandro Alonso Cajigas
• Sandra González Tejón

The resolution does not admit Javier Fernández Anaut because, according to his own curriculum vitae, he is a Middle-Grade Technician of the Administration of the Chartered Community of Navarra and holds a Diploma in EGB Teaching, therefore lacking the substantive participation requirements of Annex I —permanent civil service relationship with the Principality, subgroup A1, Higher Administrative Corps, and a degree in Law—, which are not rectifiable according to Article 68.1 of Law 39/2015. Since the exclusion is based on facts declared by the applicant himself, a hearing process was not considered necessary.

Common interviews and documentary assessment

By report dated October 21, 2026, the Presidency approved the valuation methodology and the provisional documentary evaluation and called the five admitted candidates to a complementary interview. The interviews were held on October 28, 2026, with common questions, materials, and timing, following a summons with information regarding their conduct and recording; the five summoned persons appeared, and a record signed by the Presidency and the Secretary was drawn up for each.

On October 30, 2026, the General Directorate of Public Employment sent the certifications from the Personnel Registry accrediting the membership of the five admitted persons in the Superior Administration Corps, subgroup A1, on active service. The final joint valuation report, dated November 5, 2026, concluded that all meet the required suitability and that Elisa García Rodríguez is the most suitable.

Trajectory and preference criterion

The resolution justifies the choice based on five assessments: she has been a career civil servant of the Superior Administration Corps since 2009 and holds a Law degree; she exceeds the experience threshold with more than four years heading a service department managing a team of 23 people, responsibility for a public registry, inspection planning, instruction of sanctioning proceedings, and budgetary management, preceded by more than thirteen years of technical and legal advisory in the General Directorate competent in public service.

She is also rated highly across the four documentary axes—technical direction, substantive legal competence, institutional dimension, and implementation—with the technical coordination of regulatory work, postgraduate training in public direction and leadership, and the reorganization of the Registry of Tourism Companies and Activities. The interview placed her profile above the rest in the articulation of Law 8/2018 with Law 2/2023, of February 20, on the protection of whistleblowers and the fight against corruption. The resolution recognizes that Sandra González Tejón presented a “high and very close” suitability, with the broadest managerial trajectory, but considers García Rodríguez to have a more balanced profile for the current phase of the Council.

Cessation, taking office, and guarantees

The appointee shall cease as Head of the Service of Planning, Innovation, and Quality of the Vice-Ministry of Tourism, dependent on the Ministry of Presidency, Demographic Challenge, Equality, and Tourism, on the day of the resolution’s publication, and shall take office within three business days, as both positions are located in the same town. Upon taking office, the temporary assignment of functions she held in the Council since June 23, 2026, shall cease to have effect.

The text emphasizes that this temporary assignment was not valued autonomously, nor were service continuity, personal knowledge of the Presidency, or seniority considered. Against the resolution, which exhausts administrative remedies, an optional appeal for reversal may be filed within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal within two months before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Court of First Instance of Oviedo.

The appointment defines who leads the unit coordinating transparency, access to public information, integrity, conflicts of interest, and the protection of whistleblowers in the Principality, and comes during the organism’s implementation phase, when it must consolidate its management systems and internal legal criteria. The file remains available to interested parties, including the motivation reports, minutes, and recordings of the interviews.

Source: Official Gazette of the Principality of Asturias, no. 219, of November 12, 2026, section I. Principality of Asturias — Authorities and Personnel, pp. 1-3 (official reference: 2026-09250).