The internal crisis in ERC froze the research on workplace harassment in the group of Congress | News from Catalonia
Another victims of the internal war that Esquerra lives It was the file that investigated the alleged Labor abuse of deputy Pilar Vallugera against excommunicadas of bench in Congress last legislature. The processing of the file, which never closed or rose to the party's executive to assess possible disciplinary sanctions, was encased in the midst of other schism derived between the president, Oriol Junqueras, and whatever his former general secretary, Marta Rovira. The republican leader urged the control bodies to act after the country He will publish the testimony of victims, such as the former deputy Maria Dantas.
Junqueras, in An interview in Catalunya Ràdio, He recalled that Dantas never filed a formal complaint through the official internal channel. The former deputy, in addition, broke the party card in November 2023. The Republican leader, however, considered that, after knowing the situations lived by another former deputy and an ERC representative still active in the courts, « the organs of the party can begin their work. » “It is what the person in charge of compliance will do (who conducts the investigation) and the guarantee commission (which investigates and establishes the sanctions), ”
Both dantas and the one who went to number two From the parliamentary group, Carolina Telechea, they say that on multiple occasions the « destabilizing effect » that Vallugera had inside the bench was informed. Among the aforementioned behaviors and that took place between 2020 and 2023 are lack of constant respect, shouts, public contempt for the work of companions. Several voices of the party accept that « rumors » arrived and from the previous direction they assure that Without an effective complaint it was not possible to act.
Dantas's decision to leave ERC's ranks, however, raised all the alarms and motivated that both Junqueras and Rovira were directly involved. But it also limited the margin of action. In February 2024, a political body of the formation called Ethics Commission decided to order the former Secretary General, then in Switzerlandto make an internal report on the facts. Among the people who were asked about the possible ill -treatment was Telechea. However, his testimony was the last one within the round, in July last year, and referred in writing through one of the email accounts of the control bodies.
The conclusions of Rovira's inquiries, without having the information subsequently gave Telechea and that went beyond what was explained by Dantas, were elevated on the other hand to the then responsible for compliance with the party, Xavier Mombiela, who opened a file (number 29) to establish whether or not the code of conduct had violated or not. That case overlapped with the processing of the file on authorship and responsibility for The vexatious posters against the Maragall brothersin the last campaign of the municipal elections, and that the battle between Junqueristas and Rovirists intensified.
The figure of Mombiela was also strongly questioned in the midst of the clash between features, with which his maneuver margin was limited. Junqueras's electoral promise to establish a truth commission on postersapart from the control bodies, it was read as a full -fledged disavow. Despite this, some advances were made in order to dismiss the possible case of labor abuse or consider that there was a fault against the code of conduct and raise the opening of a disciplinary file to the vote of the party executive. For example, a copy of a copy of the testimony registered by Telechea was transferred to present discharges, as explained by the deputy herself.
That happened last November. In fact, Vallugera, explain at least three sources from the parliamentary group, commented on the content of the letter at a meeting on the 26th of that month before the bench team. Twelve days before, says Telechea, the acknowledgment of receipt, by another body, the guarantees commission, of its testimony had come to him. Then, Vallugera was part of the candidacy that struggled with Junqueras's for the leadership of the party.
The triumph of Junqueras in the internal vote to choose the new dome implied the almost automatic relief of Mombiela. With the open file, there were still loose ends, such as if Vallugera's explanations were satisfactory or if the testimonies presented certified that there were other victims, also within the ERC technical team in Congress. The statements of Junqueras this Sunday leave that on the table of Lluís Mombiela, The new compliance managerless than a week after ERC celebrates the assembly where the new road map of the party has to be approved.
