Gallardo now proposes that the chopping in Extremadura is eliminated | Spain

Miguel Ángel Gallardo, general secretary of the PSOE Extremadura, has proposed on Monday to María Guardiola, president of the Board and Liderea of ​​the PP, who opens A debate about the affair of the 65 deputies autonomic and the members of the Regional Governing Council after the controversy that has raised its incorporation into the regional Parliament after knowing its processing for the alleged irregularities committed in the hiring of David Sánchez, brother of the president of the Government, by the Diputación de Badajoz. « A campaign has been unleashed with a single purpose: discrediting a way of acting that has been absolutely consistent and in defense of a project, that of the PSOE. That the secretary general were in the assembly would have to be reasonable. I have spoken with the president of the Board and I have told her that if for the PP the real problem is the aforements, or what they mean for them. explained in an appearance at the headquarters of the Socialist Federation.

« As you can not give up, and what is intended is to give up being a deputy and turned off the voice of the PSOE, I think the best way is to reflect if a problem is a problem of the 75 deputies and the Governing Council, » Gallardo moved. The socialist leader has insisted in which the reforation « does not mean immunity or impunity » And he is a victim « of a hunt » and a « discredit campaign coordinated by PP and Vox ». The Federal Executive of the PSOE has supported its incorporation into the regional Parliament, although dome sources believe in private that the times have not been handled well. « We supported Gallardo’s entry into the Assembly of Extremadura, the affiliates gave him a clear mandate to lead the opposition, there was that possibility and that is what has been done naturally, » said Esther Peña. The spokeswoman for the State Directorate of the party has sentenced that Gallardo « is another piece of the hunt unleashed by the political and media right against the PSOE politicians, against their families, against anyone who bothers them to recover the power from which (the PP) was away by an unbearable systemic corruption. »

Gallardo has also announced that this Friday he will resign the presidency of the Diputación de Badajoz, which has been since 2015. He will also cease to be a councilor in Villanueva de la Serena, a town of which he has been mayor from 2003 to March 2024, when he was elected territorial leader of his federation. Gallardo said last week In an interview in the country that he was not going to leave the Diputación « in a precipitous way. » « We will do it in a quiet and transparent way. Logically it is needed a few months, but it is a decision that I made a long time ago, » he said.

In court

Meanwhile, Judge Beatriz Biedma, an instructor of the case in which Gallardo and David Sánchez are investigated, has issued a car in which he asks the Extremadura Assembly and the Electoral Board of Extremadura for information on the new status of deputy of the leader of the Extremadura socialists, Oscar López-Fonseca reports. Specifically, the regional chamber asks that Gallardo « holds the status of deputy of said assembly and since what date. » The Electoral Board claims that, given that the regional elections that gave rise to the current composition of the Extremaduran Parliament took place in May 2023, “a year before the initiation of this procedure (in May 2024) and almost two of the abbreviated procedure order (last April 28)” that takes the bench to Gallardo and the brother of the President-, that “contributing all the documentation referred to In the appointment of the socialist leader as a member of the Regional Chamber after the resignation of a companion and four members who preceded those elections in the PSOE list.

For its part, the Liberum Association, which is part of the popular accusation in the cause of David Sánchez, has filed an appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura to prevent the status of the deputy of Gallardo from formalizing. In the brief, Liberun requests that the TSJ adopt as a precautionary measure (that is, urgently and without listening to the parties) that suspends the oath of the Constitution and the statute of autonomy that the socialist leader must do next Thursday, the last step so that his status as a regional parliamentarian and, therefore, of aggressing is effective. This association feimmed that the Extremaduran socialist leader will obtain the credential « in law fraud and abuse of law », since he has obtained it « using a series of forced actions » among which includes the resignation of Maricruz Rodríguez as a deputy so that he occupies his seat and of the four members of his party that preceded him in the electoral list, of 2023, and that they should replace that before. he.