The PSOE Federal Committee has been embroiled in a fresh scandal this Saturday, linked to one of the appointments announced on Friday for the party’s Organizational Secretary. Francisco Salazar, who was set to assume the position of Deputy Secretary of Organizational Affairs – a role headed by Rebeca Torró – has requested the PSOE to remove him from his current functions within the Federal Executive Committee. This request follows the publication of information regarding harassment complaints, as announced by the party in a statement.
According to the PSOE, Salazar has requested the party to initiate a preliminary information procedure due to the news revealed this Saturday. The party will immediately launch this process, “despite the fact that there are no complaints in the PSOE regarding this matter through any of the authorized channels.” Salazar, appointed to the new organizational team after the dismissal of Santos Cerdán for alleged corruption, is also part of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez‘s team in La Moncloa. According to a report by elDiario.es, several women from the PSOE, including a Moncloa worker, have accused Salazar of “inappropriate behavior” and “obscene comments” when he was their boss in the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government.
Following Salazar‘s resignation, who was scheduled to be one of the three deputies in the Organizational Secretariat led by Rebeca Torró, there will be no one to replace him in that position. Thus, the PSOE‘s number three will finally have two deputies: Anabel Mateos, Secretary of the Coastal Municipalities of the Socialist Federal Executive, and Borja Cabezón, responsible for democratic action and transparency. Minutes before the government spokesperson and Minister of Education learned of his resignation, she described Salazar as an “upright comrade,” an opinion that contrasted with that of the former Deputy Secretary-General of the PSOE and current Government Delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, who believed that Salazar should not be appointed Deputy Secretary of the Organizational Secretariat with this information on the table this Saturday.
