José Tomé is now officially former president of the Lugo Provincial Council. This was ratified by the provincial deputies during the plenary session held this Tuesday morning at the Pazo de San Marcos. In any case, I took keeps his deputy file And … He is still mayor of Monforte de Lemos, in both cases as unaffiliated after leaving the PSOE when he was accused of an alleged case of sexual abuse recorded in the internal channel of his former party.
“He who has done nothing has nothing to fear“, declared Tomé during the barely five minutes that lasted the extraordinary plenary session on the occasion of his resignation, during which he defended his innocence at all times, assuring that he will not stop “until he knows what is hidden behind” an accusation that he described as false.
“The damage has already been done, the damage is personal, political, familial and social. There is no going back,” continued the provincial deputy, visibly moved and holding back tears, slipping that the accusations against him respond to “supra-provincial political issues”of which it is not the “sole or main objective”. “I am innocent, the alleged complaint is false,” insisted the mayor of Monforte de Lemos.
Before concluding and handing over the provincial command to his former vice-president, Efrén Castro (BNG), who took over the presidency of the ordinary plenary session and will remain until the plenary session of January 14, during which the new president will be chosenTomé also had some kind words for those who accompanied him for six and a half years at the head of the deputation.
In the process, he defended the action of the coalition government he led with the BNG and asked journalists to remember him when his innocence was “proven”. “When all this is clarified and my innocence is proven, with the same professionalism and the same informative rigor, make it clear that I am innocent“, he said.
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