José Tomé Roca has definitively abandoned the presidency of the Deputation of Lugo. He does so three weeks after a Cuatro Televisión program revealed complaints recorded on an internal channel of his party, the PSOE, for sexual harassment. President of the provincial entity since 2019, he made his resignation effective this Tuesday, announced on December 10, in an express plenary session. The nationalist Efrén Castro, who is part of the coalition between the socialists and the BNG, temporarily assumes command. The institution will elect his replacement on January 14.
Tomé, however, does not abandon his record and joins the group of unaffiliated members. “When all this is clarified and my innocence proven, I hope they will report with the same rigor and professionalism,” Tomé told the media in the provincial Pazo, “I am innocent, all this is false and is due to supra-provincial political problems in which I was neither the only one nor the main objective. The damage is done, personal, political, family, social.” “The alleged complaint is false and I will not stop until I find out what is behind it,” he concluded his brief intervention.
The former president of the Deputation of Lugo was the protagonist of another plenary session, this one more eventful, in Monforte de Lemos, a town of around 19,000 inhabitants of which he is mayor with an absolute majority. He and his municipal group – ten of the 17 seats in the plenary session – will abandon socialist discipline from January 1, but they rejected this Monday two motions presented by the Popular Party and Esperta Monforte – a local left-wing candidacy. The two groups and the BNG demanded the resignation of Tomé from his position as municipal councilor and assured that “the name of Monforte was tarnished”.
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