Francisco Salazar, whose hiring in the City Council of Dos Hermanas (Seville) is also being investigated by the UCO (Unit for Organic Crime), was brought back by Pedro Sánchez to serve as an advisor in the final stretch of the legislature through the consultancy firm he has set up with the former head of the president's office, Iván Redondo, as ABC also revealed. The Secretary for Equality, Pilar Bernabé, had called an emergency meeting on Wednesday evening after it became known that the complaints against the former leader chosen by Sánchez to replace Santos Cerdán had been halted. According to sources present at the meeting, both the Secretary of Organization, Rebeca Torró, and the First Vice President of the Government, Vice-Secretary General of the party, and leader of the Andalusian socialists, María Jesús Montero, who are members of the same local group as Salazar, have been pointed out as the main responsible for the protection of the former collaborator of Sánchez. Both have been reproached for Ferraz having archived the harassment cases against Salazar after he went on leave. Among those who have raised their voices the most at that meeting has been Andrea Fernández, former Secretary of Equality of the Federal Executive Committee. This newspaper had already reported on the 'dam' that the socialists had set up against the ongoing investigation for alleged sexual harassment against Francisco Salazar. The emergency meeting called tonight in Ferraz to put out the fire caused by the silenced harassment complaints against Paco Salazar threatens to create a fire of unknown dimensions in the PSOE. Accusations that led to his appointment as Deputy Secretary of Organization of the party after he had been separated from Santos Cerdán last summer, following the revelations of the UCO that led to his imprisonment.
PSOE Scandal Over Paco Salazar
An internal crisis in the Spanish Socialist party over a harassment case. An investigation that was allegedly covered up now threatens the party's leadership.
