The leader of UGT Madrid resigns after denouncing corruption in the union

The general secretary of UGT Madrid, Luis Miguel López Reillo, has resigned from his position this Tuesday, days after denouncing a plot of corruption in the union to the Police, as communicated in a Twitter message to the affiliates.

In his tweet, as union sources have informed EFE, López Reillo affirms that he resigns due to "political responsibility and personal dignity" and explains that "the police investigations will continue to clarify the facts."

Last Saturday, the newspaper El Mundo reported that López Reillo had reported to the National Police a possible case of corruption in the union, which could have diverted at least one million euros from the Salary Guarantee Fund (Fogasa). López Reillo would have been warned by economic analysts close to the union who detected alleged irregularities in the management of these funds, for which he himself brought these indications before the State Security Forces and Bodies.

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According to journalistic information, a union administrator, daughter of the PSOE parliamentarian of the Madrid Assembly, Carmen López, and banking entities that managed the public money funds destined for dismissed employees, would allegedly be involved in the corrupt plot.

truncated goals

López Reillo, 66, was elected general secretary of UGT Madrid on May 6, 2016 at the XIV Madrid UGT congress. The until now general secretary was facing his second four-year term at the head of the union and had marked as One of the axes of his management is to end the salary gap and that the equality plans reach all the companies. Along with this, he had also pointed out the increase in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage (SMI), the repeal of the labor reform and the increase in pensions as objectives of this new period, now truncated.