Deep sea in the PSOE of Galicia. The federation led by José Ramón Gómez – Besteiro and Lara Méndez, both accused by their colleagues for the management of the crisis caused by the accusations against the former leader of Lugo José Tomé, waits … with the expectation of the appearance of possible new evidence that will implode the match. There are already several voices that question the leadership of Besteiro and Méndez and it is no longer excluded that in the coming days directly demand resignation or dismissal of both.
The mayor of La Coruña, very close until recently to Pedro Sánchez and Besteiro himself, is the one who has raised the loudest voice among those who occupy an institutional position. Inés Rey has become the voice of discontent in the federation, which denounces the attitude and the changes of version of the senior officials of the PSdeG, going so far as to say that “I missed the voices of the powerful men of my party, of public and organic positions”. It wasn’t a direct reference to Gómez-Besteiro, but it sounded a lot like him.
Ferraz will send an emissary to Galicia
The Federal Executive led by Pedro Sánchez plans to send an envoy to Galicia in the coming days. The objective of this organic mission, socialist sources explain, is “calm” and passionate temperaments. Besteiro remained in touch after the Ferraz affair broke and received explicit support from the president of the government, but his appearance on Friday, acknowledging that they knew of at least one of the complaints since October, “changed everything.” Neither in the presidential complex, nor within the socialist general staff, do we dare put our hands in the fire for him and his number two. Everything “will depend on what can come out of it.”
The appearance of Besteiro admitting to having knowledge of a complaint caused discomfort
Although it has not yet been revealed who will go to Santiago to try to bring order to a PSdeG in flames, everything indicates that it will be the Secretary of the Organization, Rebeca Torró, also highly questioned for the management of the “Salazar case”, precursor of the long list of scandals which have already resulted in seven resignations or dismissals. In Moncloa and Ferraz, they want to prevent the Galician federation, with many wounds opened by the processes of Congress of the last decade, are suffering even more. In the last elections, Besteiro’s candidacy fell to its historic low, which benefited the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
Meeting with the victim
The party leadership He urgently summoned one of the victims this Monday. of the mayor of Monforte de Lemos, former president of the Provincial Council of Lugo and former provincial secretary of the PSOE, José Tomé. Ferraz contacted her, ABC has learned, to summon her to a videoconference meeting to hear her version of events.
The appointment takes place immediately after Basteiro admitted that they knew, while just days before he had denied having any knowledge of anything. The leader of the PSdeG, after meeting with regional leaders, even recognized that Lara Méndez had held several meetings on this subject.
The Federal Executive summoned the victim of Tomé to find out what the regional management knew
Sources close to the victim consulted by this newspaper indicate that Ferraz offered her such a meeting with the people who are part of the commission created to investigate the multiple complaints received at the Socialists’ headquarters. In this case, furthermore, The future depends on what this victim says. Politician Gómez-Besteiro.
It is because of this modification of their version, they tell the PSOE, that they want to listen to the complainant. Ferraz wants to know what they knew and didn’t know in regional leadership before deciding whether to maintain support for their top leaders or abandon them, as several local officials are calling for. More than 240 women from this federation, including Rey and other prominent institutional leaders, signed a manifesto of support for the former Equalities Secretary, Silvia Fraga.
Fraga presented his resignation last Friday, after this meeting of the regional management, for disagreements with management led by the secretary general and his number two. In his resignation letter, he also claimed that he had not been informed of what was known and of the first statement sent by regional management.
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