Miguel Angel Gallardo takes a step aside in the direction of the PSOE of Extremadura which, however, will take him every day to his seat in the Extremadura Assembly once it is established. The former president of the Badajoz Provincial Delegation, after losing 100,000 votes and 10 seats and obtaining the worst results of the party in the elections of a historically socialist community, He resigned this Monday from his position as regional secretary generalbut he will not give up his file as deputy, which he already had since last May and which he has now supported in the Extremadura elections last weekend, which will allow him to continue as a registered member.
For a year, the former mayor of Villanueva de la Serena has followed a winding legal path which reveals that his decision not to give up his deputy status does not seem fortuitous. Gallardo is being prosecuted for allegedly create a place in 2017 expressly to the brother of Pedro Sanchez, David Sánchez Pérez-Castejónin the Provincial Delegation of Badajoz when he was president.
On September 23, the Badajoz Provincial Court decided to put Gallardo and David Sánchez on trial, along with nine other people. It was supposed to take place in February 2026, but it was ultimately postponed to May 28 because the lawyers coincided with other cases.
His status as a deputy allows the socialist to enjoy the privilege of capacity, which implies that he is judged by high judicial authorities, in this case brought to the regional level, by the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura (TSJEx).
A “hasty” and “torticero” gauging
Last May, the former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura was president of the Badajoz Provincial Council and did not have a seat in the Extremadura Assembly. But he maneuvered to expressly acquire the status of certified. At the end of April, investigating judge Beatriz Biedma prosecuted him, as well as Sánchez’s brother, for influence peddling and prevarication. A few days later, Gallardo announced that he would resign from his position as president of the deputation and that he would “immediately” join as a deputy in the Assembly.
Just a few hours after this announcement, parliamentarian Maricruz Rodríguez left her minutes and four other people who were above Gallardo on the lists for access to the seat decided not to run, thus leaving the socialist free. On May 29, he became a deputy of the regional chamber..
Judge Beatriz Biedma then presents a reasoned declaration to the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura and her three judges agree with the instructor: Gallardo commits “a fraud on the law” by his actions. The car is very hard with the former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura: this one, he says, maneuvered in a “hasty and tortuous” manner to acquire registered status.
“We are not faced with a sudden acquisition of the status of deputy and, consequently, that of parliamentarian, after the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura were held, but rather a series of acts revealing a hasty search for qualification. to escape the jurisdiction of the investigating court and the provincial court“continue the three magistrates, who thus refused to take up the case against Gallardo and referred it to the ordinary courts.
In anticipation of the elections, Gallardo presented himself as a candidate for election, even though he was being prosecuted in the case of the president’s brother. His party experienced a historic debacle, but the current former leader of the PSOE in Extremadura obtained a seat in the chamber, which will allow him to continue as a deputy as soon as the new assembly is formed.
In this context, the procedure continues as planned. The trial is already dated and the accused have been warned, so The socialist must appear before the Provincial Court of Badajoz even if he is an MP.
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