In the government, they are convinced that the PSOE paid for “hazing” to be the first match by launching a mailbox to report sexual harassment.
Thus, they affirm, the cascade of cases which have been revealed, since that of Paco Salazareven that of a councilor from Torremolinos, the president of the Provincial Council of Lugo or the mayors of Belalcázar (Córdoba) and Almussafes (Valencia).
For members of the Executive, these episodes demonstrate that anti-harassment mailboxes, they work.
The objective now, according to Equality sources, is to “generalize” this type of mechanism.
It is for this reason that the government is currently studying their promotion through legislation so that they are obligatory in all political parties, in unions and even in private companies, although the scope they would have and depending on the number of workers remains to be determined.
Its operation would be similar to that of the PSOE: an anonymous and confidential email where women can turn to report any situation of sexual harassment.
Organizations should also have an internal committee, regulated by a specific protocol, responsible for analyzing complaints and contacting the parties to collect all information.
The government is still studying the legal formula to achieve it.
They do not exclude doing this through a law, or even a royal decree, even if the latter option is designed for emergency situations. In any case, the initiative It would not arrive before the second quarter of 2026 or the end of the first.
The Executive has been insisting for days that sexual harassment is not limited to the PSOE, but that it a “structural” problem in society.
“We are the first political organization that has decided to confront the problem of harassment, encouraging and protecting any complaint,” he stressed. Pedro Sanchez in the rest of the year that he proposed this Monday morning.
It is an argument that the socialists have insisted on for weeks, challenging the PP to create an anti-harassment mailbox similar to the one launched by Ferraz in 2025, even if its existence was only known after the outbreak of the crisis. Salazar affair.
For now, Génova’s response is that they already have a confidential email to report irregularities, in which, as they admit, complaints of sexual harassment could also be received.
In Sumar’s case, her anti-harassment protocol was approved in January this year, after the outbreak of the Errejon affair.
Díaz’s training includes a confidential mailbox for complaints or precautionary measures such as temporarily suspending the harasser.
The decision to oblige other parties, unions and companies to have a specific protocol against harassment would mean a profound change in this type of prevention and reporting mechanisms.
A new normal?
Now, after the tidal wave caused by the rain of complaints, we hope in Ferraz that calm will return.
Socialist sources believe that with the incorporation of this type of protocols there will no longer be an avalanche of cases in the party.
Within the formation, complaints of harassment are worrying and they admit to being embarrassed by the messages, for example from the mayor of Belalcázar, who wrote messages to a subordinate like “I ate you all”. “Unpresentable,” they tell the party leadership.
Other allegations continue to be investigated. This is the case of the former member of the ExecutiveJavier Izquierdo. Socialist sources admit they still have no record of a complaint against the Valladolid group member, despite his resignation at the end of last week.
In the hard core of the party, we recognize that these cases of harassment keep socialist voters away from the polls in the same way as corruption.
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