Rueda since February the complaint against former councilor Villares for sexual aggression | Spain

The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, said Thursday that he knew since February the complaint against him so far CONSELLEIRO Del Mar, Alfonso Villares, which He resigned on Wednesday after being denounced for sexual assault. « In the month of February, the exconselleiro Alfonso Villares tells me that he receives a call from the Ferrol police station where they say there is a complaint against him and if he wants to voluntarily give a statement. He goes, lends that statement, he tells me that it is for a complaint for facts that had occurred a couple of months before, ”said Rueda in statements to the media. After his statement in the police station, Rueda asked to keep him » informed « of » any other novelty « and » any other pronouncement.  »

« He does not have any other communication again after the statement at the police station until last Friday we received in the Xunta de Galicia a communication of the Superior Court of Justice asking if this person, Alfonso Villares, is aforared, and this week he tells me that he receives a notification with his imputation, » he continued in his explanations.

Asked about why he decided not to cease Villares in February, when he was aware of the complaint, Rueda has justified that the advisor’s march occurs « as soon as this judicial pronouncement is produced » by being investigated for sexual assault against the model and host Ferrolana Paloma Lago. « We will respect any judicial pronouncement. So much that as soon as there has been the first judicial pronouncement, the first we have acted accordingly, and the consequence is what you know, renounces the choppy and court as any citizen, » explained the president of the Xunta. « I believe that everyone understands that there is a complaint, he provides a statement and we have to be to what a court decides. »

« We have done what we had to do, » said Alfonso Rueda. « His imputation so that he can declare in a court accompanied by a lawyer has motivated his statement. He requested it, I accepted it and understood, I think it is the right thing, his exit from the government, » he justified. On the progress of the counselor he remarks: « Now I think he makes the appropriate decision, renunciation of the agora at the time he takes his imputation; he will be prosecuted by an ordinary court. »