The Contentious-Administrative Court ruled that the Council lacked grounds to dismiss Gutiérrez Triano, who was allegedly fired for failing to meet objectives and not adequately advancing the stabilization of municipal public personnel. The ruling orders the City Council to pay the salary the former director has not received since her dismissal on April 15, 2025, and opens the possibility of her reinstatement.
However, the Council disagrees with the judge's decision. According to a statement sent to the media, the ruling is based "exclusively" on procedural issues that the Council does not share, and "does not invalidate the substantive reasons that justified the decision." The Council maintains that the reasons for the dismissal were "solid and justified," based on a loss of trust and a "serious breach" of objectives.
The ruling is based "exclusively" on procedural issues, which it does not share, and "does not invalidate the substantive reasons that justified the decision.
The Council justified the dismissal by the slow progress in the stabilization process, where only one of 1,000 pending positions had been resolved. This led to the belief that a change in general management was "convenient and necessary" to boost the process. Gutiérrez Triano, for her part, argued that there were no "concrete, measurable, real, and proven objectives," and the judge emphasized that her designation as management personnel did not allow for the argument of freedom of dismissal, also rejecting the urgency with which the process was handled.
The spokesperson for the PP in the City Council, Jimena Delgado, criticized Mayor Carolina Darias's personnel policy, stating that the ruling highlights a failure in the management of the Human Resources department. Delgado asserted that the file lacked sufficient material motivation and that the stabilization process remains incomplete, demonstrating that the problem was not solely with the former director general.
“"To this day, that [stabilization] process remains unconcluded and is outside the legally foreseen calendar, so it is evident that the problem was not only with the director general."
Delgado also recalled another recent ruling that obliges the City Council to evaluate municipal staff and pay outstanding productivity retroactively from 2021, which represents a cost of approximately 11 million euros for municipal coffers, describing it as a "very serious resolution."
