A feeling of relief ran through the feminist sector of the PSOE this Tuesday when reading in The country that the party finalizes the report on Paco Salazarand that it will be ready in approximately 48 hours.
“Thank God,” commented a feminist leader of the PSOE, who hopes that this controversy will be “closed now”. Ferraz is putting the turbo into action to stop a scandal that has been at the center of politics for a week, despite the fact that the complaints date back to July.
In the party, we hope for an exemplary decision that will put an end to a controversy that has lasted for six months, since Paco Salazar resigned from all his positions, in the Executive and in Moncloa, after several accusations of sexual harassment.
A few days after his resignation, several complaints were registered on the party’s anti-sexual harassment portal against the man who was a member of the Executive and about to be appointed shadow secretary of the Organization.
This was the information from elDiario.es those who stopped their rise to take control of the PSOE, after the fall of the Santos Cerdan.
During these months, the case slowed down and the process was stopped for five months without contact with the victims, which constitutes the second step provided for in the protocol.
In fact, the party leadership does not hide the fact that “this whole issue was handled very poorly”.
Others prefer to emphasize that the procedure was correct, even if they recognize that the times were not up to par.
“Apologies have been offered for this, but The protocol works and has been implemented“, say sources close to the Executive.
Ferraz now hopes to answer many unknowns.
The report prepared by the anti-bullying committee, whose composition is kept secret, will include an opinion and detail the measures taken and whether, for example, psychological support was made available to the victims.
The text will be submitted to the Secretariat of the Organization, which directs Rébéca Torrowho will decide the next steps to take.
Last week, in a meeting by videoconference, the Asturian Socialist Federation with the former deputy general secretary of the PSOE, Adriana Lastraat the head asked Ferraz that, once the report is closed, the PSOE send it to the prosecutionappreciating a possible crime of gender violence in Salazar’s behavior with his subordinates.
This option is not entirely convincing Pedro Sanchezwho said privately that this decision corresponded to the victims.
The controversy does not stop and the president of the government and leader of the PSOE was forced to speak out again. This time, in public.
He did so this Tuesday, in a veiled manner, during a joint event between the PSOE and the UGT to commemorate the centenary of the founder of the two organizations, Pablo Iglesias Posse.
Pedro Sánchez admitted that “feminism gives us lessons, me first” and added: “When it gives them to us, instead of doing what the right does, we ask for forgiveness and act accordingly.”
A veiled reference to the dismissal of another Moncloa official, Antonio Hernandezfor allegedly hiding his “friend” and “right-hand man”.
Even if this dismissal, announced on Sunday in a surprising manner, was only carried out when testimonies were published which designated him as an accomplice.
These sentences from Sánchez complete the self-criticism which, although without clear political consequenceshe already did so on Saturday during an informal conversation with journalists. Then he said assume “in the first person” the “speed errors” with which the file of Salazar affair.
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