The last session of control of Congress in the Government of this 2025 was stifled by the PSOE. Not even one of its most loyal partners, like Gabriel Rufián (ERC), hid the general astonishment at the management of hypotheses upon his arrival in the chamber. … case of sexual harassment by Francisco Salazar towards his socialist colleagues. On Tuesday, the sentence was announced to the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, who considers it proven that he or someone from his environment, with his authorization, disclosed confidential data of Alberto González Amador, the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. But the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, decided this Wednesday during his confrontation with Pedro Sánchez in other directions. Feminism, who would have believed it, as its Achilles heel.
After the internal outcry in the PSOE due to inaction in the face of internal complaints accumulated by Salazar, other cases of sexual harassment appeared within the party in Torremolinos (Málaga) and in the Provincial Deputation of Lugo. Something that adds to the consumption of prostitution and the sexist messages exchanged between former minister José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García, known for the corruption case opened against them. Feijóo, in a very brief first intervention, asked Sánchez to detail the qualities he saw in each of them to give them positions of trust. “Feminism gives us lessons, me first, and the big difference is that we assume them while you accept the historical error called Vox”, first responded the head of the Executive.
But Feijóo, who this time focused on a single issue and did not present a series of controversies, influenced what, for the PP, is a false feminism of the government. “He chose them all because they were made in his image and likeness. You are not better than them, you are part of them. Silence in Moncloa for those who harass their colleagues”, he began, recalling that this summer he stopped the promotion of Salazar to the Organizational Secretariat of the PSOE only when the complaints against him were made public, that after that he signed a contract with his company and that he “tried to stop” the file against him in an “inaction” that the internal staff of the formation criticized.
“Between the harasser and the harassed, you are with the harasser. You went from “Sister, I believe you” to “Shut up, you’re prettier.” “She learned her feminism in brothels, those who don’t know if they paid for her primaries,” said the president of the PP, once again taking up the controversy over the saunas managed by Sánchez’s late father-in-law, Sabiniano Gómez. It was then that the secretary general of the PSOE reduced Salazar’s alleged sexual harassment of his colleagues to “harassment at work” – he repeated it twice – and dismissed it as if the film did not concern his government or his party: “Harassment at work, according to a survey by the Ministry of Equality, is a structural problem.” One in three women say they have been victims of workplace harassment in their work environment.
Sánchez defended his executive, “the one that makes the approval of harassment protocols obligatory”, against the alleged inaction of the PP in similar cases in Algeciras (Cádiz) and Estepona (Málaga). “This government supports women and if there is a threat, it is the denialist coalition that you are forming with Mr. Abascal,” he said. Regarding the absence from the monitoring session of Vice President María Jesús Montero and Minister Pilar Alegría, both reported by the management of the Salazar file – one for having done nothing and the other for having dinner with the alleged harasser months after his dismissal – the president did not say a single word.
The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, criticized Sánchez that his executive has “more conspiracies than Netflix” and that with him in Moncloa “women are in danger” and “rapes have increased”. Rufián, although he tried to help on a social issue, with housing at the center, could not avoid ridicule: “Beyond Ábalos, Koldo, Cerdán, Salazar, who must worry them, people don’t care.
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