Former Andalusian president Susana Díaz recognized this Monday that the PSOE They did not act quickly in the Salazar casein line with what government spokesperson Pilar Alegría said, who asked “an apology to the victims” for not having acted quickly enough. “We didn’t act quickly. We arrived late and it had to be the women who gathered because the news was infamous,” she said in an interview with Cadena Cope.
“Procedures cannot be left in the air or pending Why don’t we protect women? who trust our party and because they create a defenseless situation for those denounced. This cannot happen again,” said Díaz, interviewed by journalist Pilar García de la Granja in the show Noon Cope, about the investigation commissioned by the PSOE, which is preparing a report on complaints of alleged sexual harassment against former socialist leader Francisco Salazar.
He also mentioned the complaint against the former socialist leader of Torremolinos, Antonio Navarrowho was also accused of sexual harassment and who was provisionally suspended from all activist activity: “A victim comes to the prosecution because it has been five months since she filed a complaint with the party. It’s infamous, it has no name. A woman who expects to be protected by her colleagues cannot wait five months.”
“Anti-harassment protocols have failed repeatedly these last few months and someone has to take responsibility. Whoever was in charge of this protocol must be known and must explain why it did not work. If it’s due to recklessness or negligence, it’s because they told you not to do it,” he said.
“There must be a committee of gender experts, but we don’t know who was in charge of this channel. We let the complaints die with the seriousness that that implies,” insisted the former president of Andalusia.
Díaz assured that it is always the same pattern in reported cases of abuse: “It is always a macho man with power abusing his superiority in front of a subordinate. Always in an office or somewhere where it’s very difficult to prove it.”
Concerning the fact that the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezknowing nothing about the behavior of those close to him like Salazar, José Luis Ábalos or Santos Cerdán, Díaz declared that his “personal politics” could “clearly be improved”.
“When something is committed repeatedly, The system is seriously flawed.. This is not a small mistake, it is a big mistake. If this is not corrected, it is not clarified to the end and responsibilities are not resolved, who will trust the party’s harassment channel? You need to know what happened and who is responsible. The response can never be lukewarm,” he stressed.
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