Women’s Institute director fired after Violet Points contract controversy

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The companies shared by Isabel García and her wife are said to have invoiced around 250,000 euros after obtaining 64 public contracts from PSOE local authorities.

The Ministry of Equality has stopped this tuesday to the director of the Women’s InstituteIsabel García Sánchez, after the controversy over the contracts she and her partner had received to manage the Violet Points.

The resignation took place six days after García was published would have received at least 64 public contracts from municipalities covered by the PSOE and with these awards would have invoiced approximately 250,000 euros with the companies he shares with his wife, Elisabeth García, former PSOE adviser in the Senate.

García’s tenure at the head of the Women’s Institute has lasted less than seven months and has been plagued by controversy over his views on trans legislation and his business dealings with his wife.

Popular Party, Podemos and even SumarPSOE partner in the coalition executive, They had demanded his resignation.

According to sources at the Ministry, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, demanded explanations and gave him “time” to clarify all the details of his activity.

For his part, García defended that his participation in his wife’s companies was “scrupulously” in accordance with the law: “I have a clear conscience, the certainty that I have done things right,” he said in a statement last week.

Source: EITB

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