The double talk of the PSOE, revealed in cases like that of Paco Salazar, in which the party turns a blind eye to cases included in its own statutes as subject to expulsion, is also evident in Seville. The deputy … provincial Francisco Toajas, former mayor of Las Cabezas de San Juan, retains his seat despite his conviction since 2021 for harassment of a worker at work while he was president of the Association for Local Development of the Bajo Guadalquivir (Adelquivir) region. This was reported by José Morcillo, a socialist activist who sent a letter last Tuesday to the Secretary General of Seville, Javier Fernández, demanding his exclusion from public service and from the leadership of the city group where he was a municipal councilor.
In his letter, he complains that party officials “do nothing.” “We see – says Morcillo – how recently this great ball of indecent attitudes has burst and reached public opinion, causing those responsible and those who protect them, protect them and hide them, to be separated, dismissed and expelled from the party.” This activist remembers having denounced this barbarity “several times”, without it being taken into account.
Morcillo poses a pithy question to the party leadership in the province of Seville: “How can we look people in the face and ask them to trust us if we are the ones violating and not even respecting our own statutes.”
In this sense, the grassroots activist of the PSOE asks Javier Fernández and Rafael Recio – involved in his time as mayor of Camas in a case of transfuguismo – and Myriam Díaz, to proceed with “the dismissal of all their positions (of Toajas) and the expulsion of our party, the PSOE”. Thus, he literally takes an expression from Pedro Sánchez himself: “We are the party that has fought the hardest for the defense of workers’ rights” and “we will not allow these detestable acts to taint our party”.
Toajas’ conviction
In March 2021, the Superior Court of Justice (TSJA) convicted the then president of Adelquivir, then mayor of Las Cabezas and vice president of the Provincial Council, for harassing a worker at work. The TSJA thus ratified the conviction pronounced against this association and its former director, José Antonio Navarro, for the same reason after a judgment of the Social Court number 9 of Seville in 2019, and which acquitted Toajas himself.
The worker appealed to the High Court of Andalusia, which found that Toajas “contributed materially and directly by being co-author and first responsible for the reorganization of functions.” MTR, this is the name of the Adelquivir employee, had worked since 2008 in the professional category of medium technician and was “designated by the former director as responsible for the leak of certain journalistic information concerning him “for an offense of sexual harassment against another worker of the Community of Municipalities of Bajo Guadalquivir between the years 2006 and 2007, when Mr. Navarro was general director”, and for which he was convicted in 2012.
The complainant employee pointed out that Navarro himself and Toajas “reorganized the tasks for more efficient management in such a way that the complainant was limited to the development of purely administrative tasks as well as gender tasks and sector-specific projects and that she was placed in an individual office next to the meeting room”, separating her from her colleagues, while she demanded that the president himself open an investigation file.
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