The scandal of sexual harassment allegations brought by the former socialist advisor Paco Salazar and which directly touches the heart of the PSOE at a delicate moment in Ferraz, claims a new victim. Pedro Sánchez decided to abruptly end Antonio HernandezSalazar’s right-hand man in Moncloa.
The dismissal will take effect this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, when Hernández will cease to be director of the Department of Political coordination in the Office of the Presidency of the Government.
Government sources confirmed Hernández’s departure and stressed that although he isHe denied accusations of protecting Salazarunderstands that he must step down for the good of the Executive.
The same sources affirm that in this way, and as he already did with Salazar himself, the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, wanted to act forcefully with Hernández, man of maximum confidence of the former advisor of Moncloa.
Likewise, and according to PSOE sources, the first vice-president, Maria Jesus Monteroalso chose to remove him from the leadership of the PSOE of Andalusia, where he was responsible for the Data Secretariat.
The dismissal comes a day after Sánchez would deny that there was collusion protect former councilor Salazar and offer party assistance to the two socialist activists who denounced these events if they decide to take the matter to the prosecutor’s office.
This Saturday, Sánchez said he assumed the “error” of the Salazar case “in the first person” and recognized that there were “troubles” about it. In an informal conversation with journalists at the Congressional Constitution event, the President assured that the errors in the handling of the matter were not intentional, but that he should There will be more staff to treat the victims.
He feminist sector of the PSOE criticized the handling of this matter and called for prosecutions to be initiated as quickly as possible. Different party leaders denounce that five months have passed since the complaints of several workers were revealed for alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct on the part of the former high official of Moncloa, a period in which the the complainants did not receive a response by the party.
Also this Saturday, some 300 women signed the manifesto promoted last Thursday by the Secretary for Equality of PSOE of Malaga in which he expressed “clearly and firmly” his “absolute condemnation of any form of harassment, violence or sexist behavior, no matter where it comes from and wherever it occurs”, following the complaint filed by a socialist activist from Torremolinos, Málaga, against the general secretary of the local section of the PSOE, Antonio Navarro, for alleged sexual harassment. “Not a single woman, not an unanswered attack”adds the text.
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For his part, the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, accused the PSOE of “look the other way” in the case of former socialist leader Francisco Salazar and “trying to put aside” complaints of sexual harassment. According to him, what is happening proves the “double standards” and the “hypocrisy in the defense of women” of the party led by Pedro Sánchez.
“The entire feminist policy of the Socialist Party has collapsed. The PSOE is a dangerous party for women“, Feijóo told the media on Thursday in Don Benito (Badajoz), after being asked how he assessed the performance of the PSOE in this matter after an emergency meeting was called on Wednesday within the Equality Commission to deal with the so-called Salazar case.
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