The top officials of the town councils and councils, the body of secretaries, auditors and treasurers, have decided to battle the claim of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to make permanent interims without the need to approve an opposition, only through a merit contest based on the number of years they have been in the post provisionally.

That, translated to the case of secretaries, auditors and treasurers, will mean elevating this body of qualified nationals to hundreds of interims who have not passed the demanding state opposition and the subsequent selective course that must be followed by those who wish to enter this body of senior officials. on which the control of administrative and accounting legality of the local public sector depends.

Those who have entered by opposition have decided to lead the battle, on a double front.

On the one hand, with protests like the one that took place this Tuesday in Madrid, promoted by the professional association that brings together secretaries, auditors and treasurers who had to overcome this demanding regulated selective process.

This mobilization campaign has been promoted from this professional association, Apsital. At the same time, the General Council of the professional associations of secretaries, auditors and treasurers (Cosital) has decided to wage battle in the courts, to try to stop unopposed access to the body of national authorized persons in the courts.

The president of the General Council of Cosital, José Luis Pérez López, explained this Tuesday to ABC that they have already appeared in 29 lawsuits that are ongoing in the contentious-administrative courts, to defend in all cases that access to this body of qualified nationals either through regulated opposition and subsequent selective course.

But this is only the beginning of the legal battle that they have decided to undertake. From the outset, they are going to appeal in court the public offer of employment (OPE) launched by the Government to convert 807 temporary workers who occupy secretarial, intervention and treasury positions in local entities throughout Spain into national qualified, without opposition.

Of these 807 temporary staff, 658 will not need to take an exam to become nationally qualified civil servants, because they have been temporary for more than five years and the Government has established that, for these cases, a merit contest is enough in which the years that the they carry in the post.

The other 149 will have to take an exam, but of little practical relevance. And it is that the procedure approved by the Government indicates that it is not essential to pass the exam to pass this competition-opposition and, in addition, the test weighs 40% in the final grade; 60% is the evaluation of merits, in which the number of years he has been interim weighs again.

To these 807 cases that the Government intends to go from interim to senior officials without having to overcome an opposition, there are also another 55 positions in similar conditions that are in local entities of the Basque Country, whose conversion process into permanent has been left in the hands of the Basque authorities.

"From the General Council of colleges of secretaries, auditors and treasurers we are going to challenge all the acts of application of this Public Offer of Employment," explains José Luis Pérez to ABC. From Cosital they insist that this legal battle answers "not only the legal inadmissibility but also the damage it entails for the public interest, because if this operation is consummated, access to the status of authorized national official for secretarial, intervention and administrative positions will be allowed. treasury to people who have not had to prove compliance with the necessary requirements to perform these functions of great relevance".