The Popular Party announced this Monday that it would call Francisco Salazar, who was part of Pedro Sánchez’s closest entourage from 2017 to July 2025 – when several complaints of harassment of women against the Andalusian politician became known – to appear before the commission of inquiry into the Koldo affair in the Senate, as announced by the popular spokesperson of the Upper House, Alicia García, in a video distributed to the press. “He Salazar affair “It’s a new case of cover-up, of Pedro Sánchez’s complicity in the crime, but this time of sexual harassment,” he says in the recording before declaring that the president of the government is covering up “because Paco Salazar knows too much, he knows the primaries, he knows the shenanigans and he knows the Peugeot gang of which he was part”. “Salazar was part of the hard core of the Sánchez primaries: Ábalos, Cerdán, Koldo and Salazar, the famous Peugeot gang,” he says.
“They lived together, worked together, moved and managed all the dark threads of Sánchez’s candidacy,” denounces the PP spokesperson in the Senate. “Sánchez himself, in his book Resistance Manual He acknowledges that only three people knew the exact number of supporters (for the primaries): Cerdán, Salazar and himself, and Koldo guarded them at night. Everything was in this circle and this circle is today a corrupt conspiracy,” he adds.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assumed this Saturday, during an informal interview with journalists “in the first person”, the “error” of his party in not having contacted Salazar’s victims months after the complaints, despite the fact that two of them had registered their complaint on the channel authorized for this purpose. In an attempt to resolve the crisis, Antonio Hernández, considered Salazar’s right-hand man in the electoral analysis and strategy team at the Semillas building in the La Moncloa complex, was also fired.
The PP, however, considers that Hernández’s dismissal “seeks to silence the sexual scandal”, but that it “comes too late” and “is very insufficient”. “We do not admit a false closure of the Salazar affair. “We will go to the end,” says García, who decided to bring Salazar to the commission of Koldo affair of the Senate, where they have an absolute majority, to be “responsible”. The commission was created in April 2024 following Operation Delorme, launched by the prosecution to investigate an alleged plot to award contracts worth 53 million euros to companies for the purchase of masks in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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