six women denounce the president of the Provincial Council of Lugo, José Tomé

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Six women denounced the president of the Lugo Provincial Council, José Tomé, for allegations of sexual harassment, including touching, obscene messages and job offers in exchange for favors.

The complaints indicate that events were previously transferred to PSOE regional leaders, who failed to act, calling into question the effectiveness of the party’s anti-harassment protocol.

This case joins other recent complaints from the PSOE, such as those affecting Paco Salazar in Moncloa and the general secretary of Torremolinos, Antonio Navarro, both also accused of sexual harassment.

The PSOE has publicly admitted regret for not having sufficiently supported the victims and describes the reported behavior as intolerable and incompatible with its values.

Several women reported sexual harassment by the socialist José Tomé, president of the Provincial Council of Lugo, in a week where the “Salazar case” is a headache for the PSOE and after having learned of the complaint for alleged sexual harassment filed by the general secretary of the party in Torremolinos.

Concretely, six women occupying different positions within the Provincial Deputation of Lugo –workers, advisors and advisors- They accuse Tomé of having carried out touching, offer of employment in exchange for sexual favors, sending obscene photos and messages, having made inappropriate calls and “endless atrocities”.

The alleged victims claim that the complaints were filed through the internal channel of the PSOE against harassment. Furthermore, they assure that previously They had transferred the facts to three autonomous socialist leaders who turned a deaf ear, which reveals a new failure of the party’s anti-harassment protocol as well as the management against this type of Ferraz case.

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One of the testimonies revealed by the show Code 10 de Cuatro, claims that Tomé “has been sexually harassing many women in the party for some time” and that “he does not care whether you are an activist, sympathizer, municipal councilor, journalist or deputy”: “None of them are spared”.

He also adds that the president of the Provincial Delegation of Lugo has “disgusting attitudes” such as “unauthorized touching” and emphasizes that “he believes he goes unpunished.”

They maintain that “it is normal” for the alleged harasser to believe he is unpunished, recalling that they had transferred his complaints to other posts and “no one did anything” and they even justified it: “They say it’s not serious, that he is like that, and they make you think that it is you who is exaggerating or that you did something to provoke him.”

José Tomé is part of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, president of the Provincial Council of Lugo, provincial president of the PSOE of Lugo and mayor of Monforte.

Paco Salazar and the general secretary of Torremolinos

All this in a week where the PSOE continues to have more harassers and where they are trying to mitigate criticism of the handling of complaints of this type of case.

Paco Salazar, a former senior official at Moncloa, resigned last summer from his new position after meeting anonymous complaints by sexual harassment. Several women in her work environment reported elDiario.es that the strong man of Moncloa had exercised “abuse of power”, that he had behaved “inappropriately” and the “droolers” and that he even made advances towards them and offers of a clearly sexual nature.

The PSOE now admits that “they regret not having sufficiently covered to the people who filed a complaint. These are testimonies “which detail disgusting, intolerable and incompatible behaviors with the values of the Socialist Party”, as indicated in a statement in which they also refer to Antonio Navarro, general secretary of the socialist formation of Torremolinos.

A PSOE activist from this Costa del Sol town reported last Wednesday to the Malaga public prosecutor’s office the alleged sexual harassment she had suffered from Navarro. The victim provided a WhatsApp message exchange between the two 2021.

“Don’t avoid me, I want to give you a token“, Navarro allegedly said to the woman concerned, to whom he insisted: “I know how to relieve your headache.” In other messages, he would declare: “You are very sexy”, to add: “Have you always had this cleavage?”