Toni Gonzalez part of PSPV-PSOE but no Almussafes Town Hall. The mayor confirmed this Saturday, as he declared yesterday to this newspaper, that he resigned from all his organic functions after requesting the suspension of his membership in the PSOE. Despite the complaint filed against him for alleged sexual harassment, which he describes as a “set-up”, González is not thinking of the municipal management stick.
The one who has been until now number two to the provincial executive of Carlos Fernández Bielsa As deputy general secretary, he also leaves the independent management of Diane Morant. González, close to the former minister, Jose Luis Abalosexplained on his social networks that he would continue to exercise his functions as mayor.
“After deep reflection with my colleagues in the Almussafes Socialist Group, I have decided to resign from all my organic positions and request the suspension of my membership in the PSOE,” he announced. “This painful decision will allow me to defend my honor in the face of the false complaint that I received without harming the party which gave me everything, of which I have been a member for decades and which I carry deep in my heart,” he added in a press release.
“Similarly, I will continue to work from the Town Hall for the residents of Almussafes, within the Municipal Mixed Group, leading the local government and carrying out the project that the residents of Almussafes overwhelmingly supported during the elections,” he insisted.
According to his version, “it is absolutely false that he harassed anyone at work or sexually.” In this sense, he attributes the complaint for sexual and workplace harassment to a worker at the municipal company EMPSA: “The complainant started more than a year ago after being denied a salary increase and an improvement in her working conditions by the public company Almussafes where she works.”
“From that moment on, he launched a war of accusations against municipal employees, party colleagues, the public company for which he works and all those who did not respect his interests,” according to the mayor, who claims that these false accusations “were encouraged” by his political rivals. In fact, he links the complaint to the primary process in which Bielsa defeated Morant’s candidate, Robert Ragafor control of the province. González’s support gave victory to Bielsa.
“I will not stop until I have proven, wherever necessary and at all costs, my innocence. And I will do it without leaving aside the inhabitants of Almussafes, who since 2015 have unfailingly supported our political project and to whom I am indebted,” declared the mayor.
Bielsa, for his part, assured that “there is no possible justification nor room for lukewarmness” and stressed that these behaviors “have no place in society and even less in our party”.
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