PSOE unions blame Maria Jesús Montero and Rebeca Toro for protecting Salazar by stopping harassment complaints

03/12/2025

Updated at 10:55 p.m.

An emergency meeting has been called tonight in Ferraz to put out the fire caused by the silencing of harassment complaints against Paco Salazar With the creation of fire of unknown dimensions In PSOE. The Minister of Equality, Pilar Bernabe, called for This Wednesday night after learning that complaints against the former leader chosen by Sánchez to replace Santos Cerdán had been paralyzed.

As ABC learned from sources who attended the meeting, the organization’s secretary, Rebecca Toro, the first vice president of the government, the party’s general secretary and the leader of the Andalusian Socialists, Maria Jesus Monterowho are active in the same group as Salazar, have been identified as They are most responsible for protection For Sanchez’s former collaborator.

Both have been criticized for bringing up Salazar’s harassment cases after he left office.

He was among those who raised their voices the most at that meeting Andrea Fernandezformer Secretary for Equality at the Federal Executive Committee.

This newspaper had already published a report on the “dam” that the Socialists have placed on the current investigation into the alleged sexual harassment of Francisco Salazar. Accusations that undermined his appointment as deputy of the party’s organizational secretariat after the dismissal of Santos Cerdán last summer, following the UCO discoveries that landed him in prison. Salazar, whose appointment to the City Council of Dos Hermanas (Seville) is also being investigated by the UCO, was appointed by Pedro Sánchez to act as an advisor in the final phase of the legislature through the consultancy he established with the former chief of staff of the head of government, Iván Redondo, as also revealed by ABC.


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