Has the Mayor of Palma had his revenge over his foes after being snubbed?

Politics is a dirty business especially on the Palma City Council where a major political storm has blown up over the rubbish collection service.
The judiciary are now investigating alleged irregularities in the contract for the rubbish collection service in Palma awarded 15 years ago. Nothing new, perhaps you would say after all the recent political scandals, but on this occasion the outgoing Mayor of Palma, Mateo Isern, is being accused of orchestrating the judicial inquiry as an act of revenge after he was not named as the official candidate for Mayor of Palma for the centre-right Partido Popular at the next local elections in May. Revenge is a dish best served cold and the person who was Vice President of the Palma Rubbish Collection Service (EMAYA) 15 years was Jose Maria Rodriguez, who has been accused by some of snubbing Isern in favour of another candidate for the post of candidate for Mayor. The intrigue is quite baffling but the gloves are certainly off within the ruling Partido Popular in Palma. Rodriguez is now the General Secretary of the Partido Popular in Palma and is said to be no fan of Isern, eventhough he is still considered to be a popular candidate. Rodriguez has been accused of plotting the downfall of Isern, who announced that he was retiring from politics, last month after he was not named as candidate. But now political commentators are saying that Isern has had his revenge.
Rodriguez has called an urgent meeting of the Palma branch of the Partido Popular to discuss Isern´s alleged disloyalty. This meeting will take place on Wednesday. And the whole affair could go even further because there have been calls for the President of the Balearic government and leader of the Partido Popular,  Jose Ramon Bauza, to get involved. It all comes at a time when the Partido Popular are behind in the polls and there is speculation that they could be ousted from office both in Palma and in the Balearic government in the next local elections. This scandal is not helping matters, either. Isern has denied any wrongdoing and Rodriguez has said there were no irregularities.