The mayor of Almussafes, the socialist Toni González, announced this Saturday his departure from the PSOE and his permanence at the head of the Valencian council in the mixed group after the sexual and workplace harassment complaints of an employee of a municipal enterprise … from the Valencian city which hosted the match.
“After deep reflection with my colleagues from the Almussafes Socialist Group, I have decided to resign from all my organic functions and request my suspension of activism to the PSOE. “This painful decision will allow me to defend my honor in the face of the false complaint I received without harming the party that gave me everything, of which I have been a member for decades and which I carry deep in my heart,” González said in a statement.
“I will continue to work from the Town Hall for the inhabitants of Almussafes, from the Municipal Mixed Group, by leading the local government and carrying out the project that the inhabitants of Almussafes massively supported during the elections,” he says.
Toni Gonzalez was one of those linked to José Luis Ábalos until the fall of the former minister, now in temporary prison, and had since gained weight in the party. Currently, he was Deputy Secretary General for Institutional Policies and Territorial Coordination of the PSPV in the province of Valencia and one of the trusted men of its leader, Carlos Fernández Bielsa.
He was also part of the National Executive Commission of the PSPV-PSOE led by its secretary general, Minister of Science Diana Morant, who publicly demanded this Saturday that he resign from “all his organic and institutional functions”.
González has been mayor of Almussafes since 2015 and governs by absolute majority. The town, with around 9,000 inhabitants, is home to one of the most numerous socialist groups of activists in the province, therefore crucial in organic processes, and which is now decapitated.
This is the first known complaint since the beginning of the Francisco Salazar case which affects the Valencian federation, which includes the PSOE Organization Secretary, Rebeca Torró, and the Equality Secretary, Pilar Bernabé.
He attributes the complaint to revenge
After learning of the accusations against him on Friday, González called them “flat out false” and announced legal action. “The complaint for sexual and workplace harassment is the latest step in a campaign of harassment and demolition that the complainant began more than a year ago after being denied by the public company Almussafes -EMSPA- in which she works. a salary increase and improved working conditions“, he said.
“From that moment on, he launched a war of complaints against municipal employees, party colleagues, the public company he works for and all those who did not respect his interests,” he noted, which “was encouraged by my political rivals, inside and outside the party.”
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