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The Upper House requested reports from Itaipu on the call for competition to fill 220 vacancies. The request was made based on the publications of Nación Media in which a series of officials already well-off in the binational who participate in the External Selective Process and who are very well connected within the hydroelectric plant are identified, since several of them are relatives of senior officials or close associates of the questioned director of Social Responsibility, Gerardo Soria.

Source: By Santiago Rodríguez [email protected]

While more names of officials already well-off in Itaipu Binacional who participate in the contest for hiring personnel in the institution continue to appear, the Senate requested a report regarding the External Selective Process (PSE) through which the call is made.

The request promoted by Senator Enrique Riera was approved with 27 votes in favor during yesterday’s ordinary session and for which the documents of the selection process are required for the incorporation of 220 professionals in the hydroelectric plant. The documentation must be delivered in magnetic and physical media within a maximum period of 15 non-extendable calendar days.

The request also requires a report regarding the list of binational officials who were found on the list of applicants for the aforementioned call, which was initially promoted to incorporate 220 “new professionals” within its campus.

“It is our responsibility to level the playing field, that there be equal opportunities for everyone,” Riera said during his speech, emphasizing that it is very striking that the hydroelectric plant is filling these slots months after the change of authorities.

“For many people, working at Itaipu is a dream come true, but some doubts were planted in relation to some names that would be entering and to whom the contest would be directed,” said Riera, referring to the 17,755 applicants that appear on the list of “provisional registrations” of the selection process.

Another senator who accompanied Riera’s speech in the Senate was the liberal Eusebio Ramón Ayala, who maintained that “the issue of transparency and publicity are absolutely necessary. There is no reason not to request these reports and there are fewer reasons not to give them”.

It should be remembered that for this call 220 vacant positions were enabled; However, until the closing of this edition, from the Nación Media Investigation Unit we were able to identify about twenty officials linked to the binational who signed up for the contest in search of a promotion within the entity and with that a salary increase. (see infographic).

Among the officials already well-off in Itaipu who are competing again in the call are Justo Daniel García Ovelar, nephew of Senator Blanca Ovelar and an official from the Public Ministry commissioned to Itaipu, who through this call seeks to join the hydroelectric plant with the position of Conflict Manager, Negotiation and Mediation.

Another outstanding contestant is Sonia Soledad Cabrera Acuña, an employee of the Itaipu Technological Park Foundation and wife of the institution’s recently appointed “Compliance” advisor, Jaime David Céspedes. Sonia is listed as an applicant for the position of Information and Mediation Manager.

Faced with the incessant complaints that point to the call for the hiring of personnel for Itaipu Binacional for the benefit of highly recommended politicians, the lawyer Wilson Benítez presented a note addressed to the Paraguayan general director of the hydroelectric plant, Manuel María Cáceres.

Through the note, the lawyer demands that the selection of personnel in the referred to be called “be transparent, that the exams be public and the results be published to know exactly who are the best scored in the different positions.” In this sense, the note also refers that “the suspension of the call would be important”, taking into account that it is given just a few months after the change of government.

“Citizens are alert. We will not allow manipulation of the results of the exams”, says part of the document presented by the lawyer both to the general direction of the binational as well as to the presidency of both chambers of the National Congress and the Governing Board of the National Republican Association.