The Extremadura for Forestry Management and Rural Mundo, Ignacio Higuero, presented this Friday his resignation after knowing that his curriculum has falsified with a degree that did not exist. In fact, Higuero has admitted that he lied by lacking “of that certification”, explained the spokeswoman of the Board, Elena Manzano, after making known the cessation approved this Friday in the Governing Council and the appointment of his successor, which will be Francisco José Ramírez González, until now General Director of the Public Management Society of Extremadura (GPE).
Higuero's curriculum, published on the website of the Board of Extremadura, collected a degree in Marketing at CEU in 1993, the year in which this private university began operating, although until 1994 the Government did not approve its studies and teaching plans. In addition, marketing degree was not approved in Spain until much later. In fact, it was in the 2009-2010 academic year when these university studies started.
The extract also includes its professional career, linked to the hunting sector. Professional hunter in Zimbabue between 1993 and 1994, says the text; Worker at Sierra de San Pedro SL, the “oldest professional hunting company in Spain” (1994-2003), of which CEO was until 2013. From 2009 to 2023, when it enters the government of María Guardiola, he was president of the Association of Hunting Professionals of Extremadura (Aprocex) and manager of hunting, forestry, agricultural and livestock farms.
The spokeswoman of the Extremaduran Executive has assured that the former councilor presented his resignation by letter to the president, María Guardiola, on Thursday afternoon and she accepted it, so that her cessation has been carried out. “The decision was made with full conviction and sense of responsibility with the will not to tarnish good work and effort,” the government.
Manzano has affirmed that the acceptance of the resignation of Ignacio Higuero and his cessation obeys the “requirement to all members of the Government of rigor and exemplarity” and this situation was “incompatible with the continuity of the already former councilor”, which has taken “one step aside on its own initiative.” The spokeswoman has also said that “hopefully” did the same “everyone” and has mentioned the direction of the chair of the wife of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the degree of the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé.
Sanctioned for breaking the hunting law
Higuero, who arrived at the Government of the Board of Extremadura by Vox's hand, decided to remain with President María Guardiola when the extreme right finished the pact a year ago by the provision then of the PP to host migrant minors from the Canary Islands. At that time he also announced that he would leave the ranks of the Santiago Abascal party, which he joined after arriving at the Executive, first as general director of Forest Management, Hunting and Fishing, and then as a counselor.
Higuero replaced Limia Camino, who was more than two months as the head of Forest Management and Rural World. He alluded to personal reasons to leave the position, but later made public statements in which he denounced discrepancies with the National Directorate of Vox and with the five autonomic deputies of extreme right.
Ignacio Higuero's appointment was also wrapped in controversy after eldiario.es Extremadura It will reveal the same morning of his inauguration that the counselor was sanctioned in 2014 for breaking the hunting law, whose powers would be under his command.
