The current spokesperson for Minister Pilar Alegría and president of the Congress of Deputies, Francine Armengoladmitted that the PSOE was going through a “difficult period” and expressed their mea culpa for the corruption and sexual harassment cases which affect the party and the government.
Pilar Alegría chose her hometown, La Zaida (Zaragoza), to present her candidacy for the presidency of Aragon this Saturday in front of a group of 400 activists.
“I know that It’s not an easy time“For the socialists,” he admitted during his speech, “but I also know how our party reacted in these difficult times.”
“Our party responded recognize your mistakes, apologize, take responsibility, rectify and above all, he continued to work to improve himself,” he enumerated, “always with his eyes turned to the future.”
The current Minister of Education highlighted her commitment to Aragon and considered that the PSOE must overcome its internal crisis to focus on the regional elections that will take place in the coming months. The most immediate, those of this Sunday in Extremadura.
“From now on we must recover the true essences of our projectat the heart of our objectives, always thinking of the people we represent,” he said.
The PSOE “rectified” after keeping in a drawer for five months the complaints presented by two women in the party’s internal channels against the former Moncloa councilor, Paco Salazar, for alleged sexual harassment.
The PSOE leadership only reactivated the processing of these complaints, filed last July, when their content was published in the press.
And the party decided not reporting the facts to the public prosecutor’s officeeven if he considers the victims’ story “plausible”.
Then other cases of alleged sexual harassment broke out within the PSOE, affecting half a dozen socialist leaders.
Among them, that of Toni González, who resigned from his position as number two of the PSOE of the Valencian Community (where he was one of the minister’s trusted men). Diane Morant), but he joined the Mixed Group to continue carrying out his duties as mayor of Almussafes.
Or the mayor of Belalcázar (Córdoba), Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, whose WhatsApp messages addressed to a municipal employee were published in ABC: “You miss a good meal of clams” he said in one of them.
Although the BOE has not yet published her dismissal, Pilar Alegría offered her last press conference as government spokesperson on Tuesday, to focus on her pre-campaign for the elections in Aragon, which will take place on February 8.
As is the case with Miguel Ángel Gallardo in the Extremadura elections this Sunday, Alegría does not have good electoral omens, in the midst of the storm that is shaking the PSOE due to cases of machismo and corruption.
In fact, Pilar Alegría showed him firm rejection of Jorge Azcón’s decision to call elections.
The president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, was also saddened by the party’s scandals, during the Christmas drink offered last night by the PSOE of the Balearic Islands.
But he did this to emphasize that the protagonists of these scandals “betrayed” the party.
During his speech, Armengol asserted that “the comrades who betrayed socialist valuesThey are no longer companions.”
Because in addition to complaints of sexual harassment, the PSOE bids farewell to the year with former minister José Luis Ábalos and his advisor Koldo Garcia sharing a cell in Soto del Real. Both have already threatened to pull the cover.
And with a new police operation which allowed the arrest of the plumber by Ferraz Leire Díez and the former president of Sepi Vicente Fernándezfor the rigging of competitions and the collection of commissions in public companies such as Correos.
Faced with these scandals, Francina Armengol opted for a victimist speech in front of her PSOE colleagues from the Balearic Islands.
“They come for us“, he warned, “but we have the strength; The future cannot be written, we write it. Now more than ever, it is worth fighting for. »
The Balearic Islands PSOE Christmas Cup also became a tribute to former government president Francesc Antich, who died on January 2, who was one of Armengol’s main political mentors.
During the event, the general secretary of the PSOE of Mallorca, Amanda Fernandezindicated that “Feminism is not just a flag, it is the soul of this party.”
He therefore urged his colleagues to transform “rage into action, indignation into strength and mistakes into progress”so that no one doubts that the Socialist Party is a safe space and the best tool for transformation.”
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