Thursday, March 28

The political parties in Malaga rush Medel so that his departure from the Unicaja Foundation is “as soon as possible”


The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, has trusted that the resignation announced by the president of the Unicaja Foundation, Braulio Medel, at the head of said entity, will take place “as soon as possible”.

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In addition, he has considered “very important” that in the “new Unibox that merges the previous Unicaja and Liberbank, the 60-40 proportion of the financial and economic weight of each entity is noted in the appointments of the second and third level directors of the new entity”.



“I hope that the announced resignation of Mr. Medel to the Presidency of the Unicaja Banking Foundation serve so that the appointments of the Board of Trustees that the Foundation makes in the near future of the directors in the Unicaja banking entity are people who align in the decisions of Unicaja Banco with the position of its president, Manuel Azuaga, and of the directors of that bank that represent the old entity from Malaga and Andalusia before the merger”, De la Torre has maintained.

“We had to fight alone”

For her part, the spokesperson for Ciudadanos in the Malaga’s town hall and Councilor for Culture and Sports, Noelia Losada, has considered the resignation of Braulio Medel “good news for the interests of the people of Malaga”.

In addition, he added, in a message on his Twitter account, that today “everyone wants to score but it is fair to remember that we –Cs– had to fight alone to get Braulio Medel to leave his position in charge of Unicaja Foundation.

Losada has also asked to “refresh the memory of the forgetful and recognize Moreno Brenes” and the platform created ‘Salvemos Unicaja’ “for his courage when everyone hesitated about the need to improve the governance of the Unicaja Foundation.”

Precisely, Moreno Brenes has recalled: “Without our opposition, worthy (and sometimes lonely and misunderstood), against the nonsense of this man, this would not have been achieved. My heartfelt gratitude to the platform that I had the honor of promoting (Salvemos Unicaja)”.

“Common sense prevails”

On the other hand, on his Twitter account, the spokesman for the PSOE in the Malaga City Council, Daniel Pérez, stressed that the Unicaja Foundation “will soon begin a new stage.” “The change in the presidency will contribute to giving a new impetus to this institution, key for Malaga, its province, and for Andalusia in general”, he has transferred.

This fact, according to Pérez’s message, “without a doubt, will help to further consolidate its projects and the prestige achieved over the years with Unicaja Banco in the Spanish financial framework as the first Andalusian and fifth Spanish bank”.

“In this way, the common sense that we already transferred from the PSOE to the Malaga City Council in the last plenary session prevails, after serious and prudent work so that the image of Unicaja and its social and economic relevance are not affected”, It is finished.

That “do not further delay your departure”

The deputy spokesman for the group United We Can for Andalusia in the Andalusian Parliament, Guzmán Ahumada, asked Braulio Medel this Friday to “not delay any longer” his resignation from the presidency of the Unicaja Foundation, which, in his opinion, should have taken place ” long time ago”.

Guzmán Ahumada has maintained that this resignation of Braulio Medel “in installments” occurs “in the face of social and institutional pressure”, and has underlined that this director “was not an ideal person to direct the Unicaja Foundation” and “put at risk the roots territory of an entity founded, forged, worked on our land”.

After “thanking the work of the ‘Salvemos Unicaja’ platform and its promoter, Pedro Moreno Brenes” for this “important step” for Medel’s resignation, the representative of United We Can for Andalusia has called to “continue working so that at no time is the territorial roots of Unicaja at risk”, as well as so that “we save each and every one of the jobs that the financial entity has in our land, and also that each and every one of them remain open. Their offices”.

“Hostile media campaigns”

This past Thursday, Medel announced, through a letter, that he will resign from the Presidency of the Unicaja Foundation in “a short period of time that allows, with the mind set solely on the interest of the Banking Foundation, an orderly transition”.

Medel attributes his decision to several reasons: the report sent from the Protectorate of Banking Foundations, dependent on the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, that questioned his suitability for the position, “the existence of endless external pressures and persistent hostile media campaigns” and the “imperative attention” to other personal and family duties.





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