Obejo eliminates the reserve list for the interim architect process

The Obejo City Council has upheld the request from the Territorial Delegation of Tourism, Justice, Deregulation, and Local Administration in Córdoba and has removed the eighth clause, titled “Formation of a Reserve Pool,” from the selection process to hire an interim architect. The decision was adopted via resolution no. 238, dated November 3, 2026, issued by the Mayor’s Office and signed by Mayor Pedro López Molero. The agreement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba no. 217, dated November 10, 2026, under reference BOP-A-2026-3733.

The origin of the file is Decree no. 184, dated August 14, 2026, which approved the selection of an Architect, Group A, Subgroup A1, as an interim civil servant, as well as the call for applications and the guidelines, which were published in BOP no. 162, dated August 21, 2026. The position was intended to cover the complete management—including, where applicable, project drafting and technical management—the monitoring, and the justification of works funded by the Resolution of March 31, 2026, of the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, within the framework of the aid regime of article 7 of Royal Decree-law 5/2026, of February 17, and was to be resolved through a competition system, with a maximum of 30 points.

The regional request

The file was activated by the request registered under number 202688300000907, dated September 11, 2026, sent by the Territorial Delegation of Tourism, Justice, Deregulation, and Local Administration in Córdoba. The delegation requested the removal of the eighth clause, understanding that its provision for a job pool was contrary to Andalusian public service regulations.

The resolution is based on the powers of article 21.1.g) of Law 7/1985, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, and is structured into three points:

• Uphold the request and modify Decree no. 184, dated August 14, 2026, by suppressing the eighth clause “Formation of a Reserve Pool.”
• Notify the resolution to the Territorial Delegation of Tourism, Justice, Deregulation, and Local Administration in Córdoba and publish the announcement in the BOP.
• Report the matter to the Plenary in the next session to be held.

What content is removed from the process

The suppressed clause provided that the Qualifying Tribunal would submit to the Mayor-President, along with the proposal for the appointment of the interim, the same list of applicants to serve as a pool to cover urgent and temporary needs in the Architect category. According to the now-annulled text, those individuals would have had a “mere expectation of right” to be called in order, with a validity of three years from the date the first applicant took office.

The intended operation of that pool relied on individual and verifiable calls through two channels:

• Email to the address indicated in the application, with two business days to express interest.
• Up to three telephone calls, with a minimum interval of half an hour between them, and the same period of two business days to respond.

The rest of the rules remain in effect, including the competition system with self-scoring, the ten-business-day period to submit applications, and the 39-euro fee for examination rights.

Administrative Processing

The resolution is electronically signed and dated November 10, 2026, and is disseminated “for general knowledge and in compliance therewith,” according to the text of the announcement. The competent body for its execution is the Mayor’s Office of Obejo, led by Pedro López Molero, while the notification to the requesting regional administration and the publication in the provincial bulletin constitute the immediate planned procedures.

The same BOP number includes three other publications from the Obejo City Council, all dated November 5, 2026, relating to the initial approval of the General Budget for 2027, a budgetary modification via extraordinary credit financed by vacancies, and the credit modification file no. 2/2026 by transfer between expenditure areas, each with fifteen days of public exhibition.

With the removal of the eighth rule, the Obejo process loses the temporary coverage mechanism that was to be fed from the list of applicants and is limited to the appointment of the candidate with the highest score in the competition. For the applicants who participated in the August call, the change affects the expectation of being called in the future for other municipal architecture needs, a function that must now be articulated through other channels in accordance with Andalusian public service regulations.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Córdoba, no. 217, November 10, 2026, Local Administration, page 16021 (official reference: BOP-A-2026-3733).