European Parliament to Debate 'Me Too' Scandal in Spanish Socialist Party

The Spanish People's Party (PP) announced this Monday that the European Parliament will debate the 'Me too' scandal within the Socialist Party (PSOE), regarding accusations by socialist women of alleged sexual harassment by party leaders, to genuinely combat such behaviors. According to the PP, Vice-President of the European People's Group (PPE) and Secretary-General of the PPE, Dolors Montserrat, requested at the beginning of the plenary session to add a new point to the European Parliament's agenda to open a debate 'to prevent and act against sexual harassment in public institutions' following 'the wave of complaints within the socialist ranks in Spain'. The vote was favorable, which will require modifying the Wednesday's agenda to include this new debate. 'For years they have been handing out feminism cards and now they are starring in an endless drip of harassment from power, even from the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government... and most seriously: they knew and did nothing,' Montserrat launched at the socialist bench. In this sense, she accused the socialists of 'prioritizing the protection of the party over the defense of women' and applying 'an intolerable double standard' because 'one cannot demand exemplary behavior from others while covering up one's own abuses, it is a matter of principle.' Each day a new case comes to light, and each one is more disgusting and repugnant than the previous one,' Montserrat stated to the plenary. Therefore, she called for this debate to be held in Strasbourg 'to denounce it'. 'We are facing the 'Me Too' of the PSOE.'