{"id":311885,"date":"2025-08-02T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311885\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:18:09","slug":"spains-summer-of-cv-related-resignations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311885\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s summer of CV-related resignations \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But in July it was revealed that although her profile in the Spanish parliament\u2019s website said she held a \u201cdual degree in Law and Public Administration,\u201d she held no degree whatsoever<\/a>. Journalists also discovered that her profile at Guatemala\u2019s Francisco Marroqu\u00edn University, where N\u00b4\u00fa\u00f1ez taught a Political Science course, falsely claimed that she also held a degree in English Philology.<\/p>\n

News of the politician\u2019s fake CV credentials came at an awkward moment for the PP. Since last May, when Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez was forced to publicly apologize for the corruption<\/a> within his Socialist Party, the leading center-right political force has pitched itself as a \u201cclean\u201d group that Spaniards can trust.<\/p>\n

After meeting with opposition leader Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o<\/a>, N\u00fa\u00f1ez announced her resignation<\/a>. Shortly thereafter, her party ordered its officials to review their CVs<\/a> to make sure no other falsehoods would be uncovered.<\/p>\n

Dummy degrees<\/p>\n

But less than a week later, another set of fake credentials was uncovered. This time, however, they belonged to Socialist Party official Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngel Batalla<\/a>, whom the national government had tasked with overseeing reconstruction efforts following last year\u2019s deadly floods in Valencia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Batalla claimed to hold a degree in Archival Science and Library Science from the University of Valencia issued in 1983 \u2014 a remarkable feat given the university in question did not teach that subject until 1990. <\/p>\n

The discovery of the falsehood has not only prompted the official\u2019s resignation, but it could potentially land him in serious legal trouble<\/a>. Because Batalla used the fake degree to successfully apply to join Spain\u2019s public service in the early 1980s, he could be prosecuted for defrauding the state for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But in July it was revealed that although her profile in the Spanish parliament\u2019s website said she held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[113856,2575,2000,299,18109,8175,113857,5111,5338,1199,104,47982,31678],"class_list":{"0":"post-311885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-alberto-nunez-feijoo","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-higher-education","13":"tag-labor","14":"tag-pablo-casado","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-pedro-sanchez","17":"tag-services","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-spanish-politics","20":"tag-yolanda-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}