This Wednesday, the Extremadura government fired the president’s driver, María Guardiola, after learning that this worker had been convicted “for minor coercion” in relation to a crime of gender violence, a fact of which the head of the Regional Executive was not aware, according to Extremadura government sources. The worker is also a distant relative of the president, according to the same sources.
The advisor to the Presidency and Secretary General of the PP of Extremadura, Abel Bautista, already declared early in the morning that the driver would be immediately fired as soon as the government confirmed said conviction, which was known thanks to the information published by The plural and which the PSOE echoed.
According to this media, the driver was sentenced for gender violence against his ex-partner to six months of separation, thirty days of community service and the withdrawal of his weapons license. According to official regional government sources, the president had no prior knowledge of the events or of the existence of a “conviction for minor coercion” linked to this worker.
It was the worker himself who informed María Guardiola of this situation this Wednesday by email and, later, in a telephone conversation in which, according to the aforementioned statement, he recognized “the sentence for minor coercion, already served, and apologized for not having communicated it to her beforehand”. The worker immediately made himself available to the president and in this situation, “he was fired”.
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