Rueda refuses to appear to explain why he hid the complaint to his Ministry of sexual assault | Spain

The Alfonso Rueda Government (PP) worked with absolute normality for four months Despite having a denounced for sexual aggression in their ranks. The Galician President knew last February that his Ministry of Mar, Alfonso Villares, a politician with extensive career and very close to him, had been denounced a month before by a woman in a Ferrol court, charging him an alleged crime against sexual freedom. As he told himself, the president just asked the member of his executive to keep him informed and it was not until June 4 that the case had political consequences. Villares resigned And wheel and the whole game did not hesitate to say goodbye with applause. The opposition is outraged and has asked the leader of the Galician PP to appear this week in the Plenary of the Autonomous Parliament to give explanations. The popular, however, have vetoed the application.

The parliamentary spokesman of the PP, Alberto Pazos, argues that the doubts about the management that the Xunta has made of this crisis « They have already been clarified by the president before the whole of the society. ”Pazos has brought a breast of the wheel behavior and the ex -Consalleiro. He has assured that the resignation of Villares“ as soon as the opening of a judicial action is known ”has“ few precedents ”and has described it as“ immediate.

At that time, the television presenter Paloma Lago ratified the complaint and the matter was sent by the Ferrol Court to the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG), competent body to judge it for being part of the autonomous government. The Court has found enough indications to admit the case to process and when he informed Villares that he was going to start practicing proceedings, the Minister called urgently to the press and presented his resignation. Now that it is no longer afrado, the investigation has returned to the Ferrol Instruction Court. Rueda assures that he complied with the statutes of the party and that he warned of the complaint to the national leadership that he heads His predecessor in the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóohours before the resignation, after the communication of the TSXG of him formally opened an investigation.

Rueda’s appearance request has been supported by BNG, PSDEG-PSOE and the only deputy of Ourensana Democracy, but has not come forward thanks to the absolute majority of the PP. The viceportavaz of the BNG in the Galician Parliament, Olalla Rodil, considers « absolutely outrageous and unworthy » that the president of the Xunta refuses to give explanations to the Chamber. Nationalists and socialists want him to explain not only why he hid the complaint for four months, but also the treatment he has given to the complainant.

His name was revealed by several media by citing sources from the former Consalleiro and, while Villares has received praise from his whole party, Lake has been ignored by the leaders of the Xunta and the PP. « Rueda has chosen to hide the information, publicly honor the Conselleiro denounced and condemn the victim to silence. That attitude is an endorsement of impunity, » said the leader of the Galician PSOE, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro on Tuesday.

The block wants to clarify whether the Xunta leaked the identity of the complainant, « launching the pressure on her and violating her right to privacy. » In Rodil’s opinion, the Galician government has orchestrated « an absolutely unworthy and outrageous campaign of criminalization and accusation against a woman who took an important step forward. » Besteiro has stressed that « what is at stake is not only a very serious complaint but the institutional response to her. » « The responsibility of a president is not to cover up, but to guarantee transparency, rigor and protection of the victims, and Rueda has done just the opposite, » criticizes the spokesman of the Galician socialists.

The warm farewell of the president of the Xunta to Villares in the act of taking possession of his successor in office has been baptized by the BNG as « the embrace of shame. » Rueda has claimed that he hugged him as « good Minister », « not as reported. » « I will never deal with whom justice has not declared guilty, » he has defended himself, although He does not see « parallelism » between his former Consselleiro and the State Attorney GeneralÁlvaro García Ortiz, on whom there is no sentence.

Villares and Errejón, on TVG

The investigation of Villares for alleged sexual assault also sneaked into the vote on Tuesday in the Galician Parliament to the PP candidate to direct autonomous radio and television. The journalist Concha Pombowhich has been directing the news of the public chain for eight years, it only received the support of the popular and, not reaching two thirds, must submit to another vote. If it is not supported by another political group of the Chamber, its appointment as general director can be approved in a third session only with the absolute majority of the Rueda party.

The BNG has put the coverage of the resignation of Villares as an example of the informative manipulation that a part of the channel workers have been denouncing for years. In contrast to the treatment of the complaint against the politician of adding Íñigo Errejón, « four days, afternoon and night, opening the news », the investigation for sexual assault to the popular was « a day’s holder » for 55 seconds, Rodil stubborn: « The next day, the news was already another, the new Minister, and the third day, nothing has happened here. »