Minister Angel Victor Torres avoids answering whether the PSOE should take the Salazar case to the prosecutor’s office even though he sees it as “vomit.”
The Minister of Regional Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, avoided answering whether the PSOE should send sexual harassment complaints against the former leader and ex-councillor of Moncloa, Francisco Salazar, to the Attorney General’s Office. Torres limited himself to considering that they had acted forcefully, which led to his separation from the party and the government.
During a memorial event for the Constitution organized by the Madrid Government delegation at the UNED-Escuelas Pías headquarters, he answered in this way when asked whether the PSOE intended to file the above-mentioned complaints against its former party colleague to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Torres went back to the summer to recall that when these complaints became known in the Socialist Party, hours before the Federal Committee convened at which leadership changes were scheduled to take place — Salazar was to be appointed to the organization — “Salazar automatically ceased to be in the party and in Moncloa.” He defended that “the PSOE acted immediately,” and wanted to compare this position with that of other political formations that, he said, complained about other institutional positions and “remained in their positions for months and months, as happened in Galician society.”
However, the Minister did not want to comment on whether complaints from women who worked with him in Moncloa should be brought to court, nor on the question of why these complaints had remained dormant in the Socialist Workers Party for five months. (People’s Army)