Between July and August, the PSOE Complaint Channel received two anonymous complaints against… Paco Salazar Accused of sexual harassment, one of Sánchez’s trusted plumbers in La Moncloa and a member of the Executive Bureau of the Socialist Workers Party.
However, four months later, a firm decision has yet to be reached, and Salazar last week abandoned his hardliner status.
The controversy arose at the beginning of July, when Salazar was scheduled to be appointed by the Federal Commission as deputy organizational secretariat of the PSOE.
On the same morning, several complaints were posted before El Diario.es They pushed him to resign his appointment and resign from membership in the Executive Board.
Now, Salazar has given up his PSOE membership card. This was confirmed by sources from the Ferraz administration.
“The process is not over, it is not closed, and no matter how much you lose your membership status, this process is ongoing,” the executive spokesperson said. Montse Minguez After a joint executive meeting between PSOE and UGT in Ferraz in the week that marks the centenary of the death of the founder of the two organizations, Pablo Iglesias.
Later, through a statement, the Socialist Workers’ Party expected an investigation to take place Will be concluded “in the coming weeks” Those responsible for the investigation will have “a new interaction with the complainants and accused to try to compare information and adhere to what is stipulated in the protocol.”
So far, Ferraz has declined to comment on the complaints against Salazar. Confirming that they had no knowledge of it.
On the same Monday, Eldiario.es published that the two victims saw how the internal complaints they registered disappeared from the internal channel with a message saying “No communication was provided”, as can be seen in several screenshots published by the digital.
Administration sources confirm that the problem is computer-based and refuse to delete or erase the complaints.
In Ferraz they assert that they only disappear for the sake of the complainants but that is Anti-Harassment Committee He has access to testimony accusing Salazar of “misogynistic behavior” and having “crossed the line.”
In the party they defend that the process is legal. “The process is guaranteed“The process is ongoing,” said Minguez, who stressed that the committee “will have to write its report,” which will be sent to the organization’s secretariat.
Party sources do not even rule out that despite losing membership status, Salazar could be punished or resort to judicial procedures if the report deems it so.
The party spokesman asked “calm” from party colleagues who “want to use” the harassment protocol.
All this noise is happening at the same time that there is a clear rapprochement between Salazar and the party. A few weeks ago, government spokesman, leader of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Aragon and member of the executive, Pilar AlegríaHe had lunch with Salazar as proven in some snapshots published by Articulo14.
The party leadership ignores this meeting and asserts that it was on a personal basis. This story coincides with the story of the minister, who justified it by the friendship that united them, despite complaints of harassment.
In Ferraz, they denied that other members of the executive, such as the organization’s secretary, had dinner with the party’s former plumber but in Congress, the PP accused the government of appointing a consulting firm that would be headed by Salazar and confirmed that it was advising externally.
This was not denied by the executive authority.