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New scandal hits Spanish government, official resigns after sexual harassment allegations

Politiko 2025-07-05 16:09:46

New scandal hits Spanish government, official resigns after sexual harassment

Pedro Sánchez's efforts to restore Spain's ruling Socialist party, following damaging corruption allegations that threatened to topple his coalition government, have suffered a serious setback after a party official resigned over sexual harassment allegations.

The prime minister had hoped that this weekend's meeting of the federal committee of his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) would help the party overcome weeks of scandals that have undermined the ethics and anti-corruption promises on which it came to power seven years ago.

But such hopes were dashed on Friday after the online newspaper elDiario published accusations from various female PSOE employees who said they had been sexually harassed by Francisco Salazar, who oversaw institutional coordination at the Moncloa palace, the prime minister's office and official residence.

The allegations prompted Salazar to announce on Saturday that he was resigning from that post and from his new role as deputy in the PSOE's organizational secretariat.

He told elDiario that he did not recall any inappropriate interactions. "It seems strange to me," he said. "I keep wondering if I was wrong and said something inappropriate to a coworker, and the truth is that I can't find an example."

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