Aymar, a 21-year-old autistic young man from Bilbao will be able to become official of the City Council of Vitoria, if he passes the exams, as decided by the contentious court administrative number 1 in the capital of Alava.
In a court order, the the town hall provisionally admit the young man into the selection process for access a place as a career civil servant reserved for people with intellectual disabilities, “as well as correct your exams and be at the end of the same thing”, that is to say, he must be treated as a mere candidate among the others.
Aimar has already carried out the first examinations, as a precautionary measure, for one of the 16 places in auxiliary competition of services, but the Vitoria City Council continued its case because it understood that it did not respect the basics of the OPE.
The basics require proof of intellectual disability with a diploma equal to or greater than 33%. The problem arose when the report of the Provincial Council – the one that assesses disabilities – was used to justify the disability classified as non-intellectual, an “error”, according to the judgment. The city council used the regional report to exclude it from the list of those admitted.
The young man proved that he had a higher mental disability – 49% -, which affected his mental facultiesbut the municipal council did not ask the Provincial Council for a new qualification, therefore the family of the young man, through the lawyer Adolfo Godoy, He resorted to justice.
Vitoria judge Rosa Sánchez agreed with the family and handed down a sentence on October 3 of this year in which the municipal council ordered the provisional admission of Aimar in the selection process. The municipality appealed and now the magistrate has ordered the execution of the sentence.
However, the city council can challenge this order in the next five days, and it is still pending. another resource that the council filed for the same subject before the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country, but, for the moment, Aimar will have to be treated as just another candidate.
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