López Varela consolidates the legal advisory service of the CIMM as a career civil servant position

The Ourense City Council has concluded the selection process for filling a legal advisor position at the Municipal Women’s Information Center (CIMM) and has appointed Beatriz López Varela, who had been performing the same role as an interim worker, as a career civil servant. The decision was adopted through Mayoral Resolution 2026011647, dated November 2, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 13, 2026, in section IV. Local Entities, under file CIVIDAS No. 2023002512 of the Personnel and Human Resources Service.

An A1 position filled by competitive evaluation

The position falls within the special Administration scale, technical sub-scale, senior technician class, legal advisor category of the CIMM, subgroup A1, with the status of civil servant personnel. The selection system applied was competitive evaluation, without examination tests, in accordance with the rules of the call.

The filling of the position is part of the extraordinary public employment offer for the stabilization of temporary employment corresponding to the 2022 financial year, articulated through Decree No. 2024008143, dated November 13. The resolution is based at all times on the proposal report from the head of the Human Resources Service, dated October 1, 2026.

The appointment requires the designated person to acquire the status of career civil servant through the formal taking of possession of the post within a maximum period of one month, counted from the publication of the appointment in the provincial gazette, according to point 12.2 of the rules of the call.

Two decades of interim status come to an end

The agreement includes the termination of Beatriz López Varela as an interim civil servant of the Council in the position she had been occupying as legal advisor to the CIMM. That appointment dated back to Mayoral Decree No. 600, of January 30, 2009, meaning the interim relationship lasted for more than sixteen years.

The termination is not automatic: it is subject to the suspensive condition of the formal taking of possession as a career civil servant; that is, it is only consolidated once that procedure is completed. The reason cited in the resolution is that the occupied position has been filled on a permanent basis.

The resolution also approves the list for the future selection of interim civil servant or temporary contractual personnel for the same position, in accordance with rule 13 of the call and minutes No. 2 of the selection tribunal. The order is as follows:

• Pablo Luis Salgado Fernández
• Silvia Míguez Pereira
• María Inmaculada Freijeiro Fernández
• María José Rois Méndez
• Rebeca Castiñeiras Gallego
• Ana Roig Vázquez
• Eladio Medel Iglesias
• Beatriz Montero Fernández
• Celia Raquel Suárez López

Deadlines and appeal process

The resolution, which ends the administrative route, is signed by Mayor Gonzalo Pérez Jácome and instructs the Human Resources Service to carry out the necessary processing, including publication on the municipal electronic notice board and in the provincial bulletin. The following appeals may be filed against it:

• Optional appeal for reversal (recurso potestativo de reposición) before the body that issued it, within a period of one month from the day following the receipt of the notification, in accordance with articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1.
• Contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Ourense, within a period of two months, according to article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13.
• If the appeal for reversal is chosen, the judicial route cannot be pursued until the former is expressly resolved or dismissed by administrative silence.

The decision is part of the same batch of stabilization resolutions from the Ourense City Council: on the same day, Mayoral Resolution 2026011646 was published, appointing Patricia Fernández Miguélez as permanent contractual staff in a Political Science and Administration position.

Impact for readers

The consolidation of the position guarantees the continuity of a specialized legal assistance service for victims of gender-based violence in the municipality, which ceases to depend on an interim relationship renewed since 2009 and passes to be covered by a career civil servant. Furthermore, the approved list of nine candidates allows for the agile filling of future absences in that same position.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Ourense, issue of November 13, 2026, section IV. Local Entities (official reference: R. 2.633).