Punxín dismisses Eladio Fernández as deputy and appoints Diana Sulleiro

The mayor of Punxín, Manuel Vázquez Fernández, has revoked all competencies delegated to councilor Eladio Fernández Vázquez and dismissed him as deputy mayor of the municipality, while appointing Diana Sulleiro Lema to that same position. The decision was adopted through Mayoral Resolution No. 194, dated November 4, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 9, 2026, in section IV. Local Entities (official reference: 353207). The three agreements take effect as of November 5, 2026.

The publication is made in compliance with article 44 and following of the Regulation on the organization, functioning, and legal regime of local entities, approved by Royal Decree 2568/1986, of November 28. The text contains the operative part of the Mayoral resolution and was signed in Punxín on November 5, 2026, by the mayor himself, with registration number 2,689.

The change of deputy is not an isolated decision in the recent activity of the council: the Plenary held on November 3, 2026, initially approved the General Budget for the 2027 fiscal year and a credit supplement file financed by higher revenues, procedures that are subject to public information for fifteen days and were published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense on November 6, 2026.

Three agreements in a single resolution

Mayoral Resolution No. 194 is structured into three points that are applied simultaneously:

• First: to revoke all competencies delegated to Eladio Fernández Vázquez, councilor of the council, which had been approved by a Mayoral resolution on January 31, 2024.
• Second: to dismiss Eladio Fernández Vázquez from his position as deputy mayor.
• Third: to appoint Diana Sulleiro Lema as deputy mayor of the Council of Punxín.

The three measures share the same effective date, November 5, 2026, so that the dismissal and the appointment leave no intermediate period without a holder in the deputy mayoralty.

Competencies and appeal deadlines

The revocation affects all the powers that the mayor had delegated to the councilor in January 2024, without the announcement detailing what those matters were or the specific scope of each. The text does identify the enabling norm of the original delegation and the exact date of the agreement that is now being nullified.

Against the resolution, which ends the administrative route, there is a double path for challenge:

• Optional appeal for reversal before the mayor, within one month from the day following the publication of the announcement, 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 two months, in accordance with article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13.

If the appeal for reversal is chosen, the contentious-administrative route cannot be pursued until the former is expressly resolved or its dismissal occurs by silence.

Impact on municipal management

The deputy mayor is the position that replaces the mayor in case of absence, vacancy, or illness, in addition to assuming the functions delegated to them. With the prior revocation of all competencies delegated to Eladio Fernández Vázquez, the distribution of attributions is once again concentrated in the Mayor’s Office until new delegations in favor of the incoming deputy are formalized.

The movement occurs in a quarter of administrative intensity in Punxín, with the 2027 Budget and a credit supplement in the public exhibition phase, which places the decision on local government at the center of the council’s agenda.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Ourense, November 9, 2026, IV. Local Entities (official reference: 353207).