MadridPaco Salazar, denounced internally to the PSOE for alleged cases of sexual and workplace harassment and sexist attitudes, appears before the Senate’s commission of inquiry into the Koldo case. The PP made use of its absolute majority in the upper house to summon him three days before the elections in Aragon. Salazar resigned from his positions in the PSOE Executive and his position as institutional coordinator of the Presidency of the Spanish government in July after women’s allegations against him emerged. It is a matter, of course, that has passed tangentially through the appearance. The first statement was made fifteen minutes after starting the appearance: “I have always respected as professionals and as women all the colleagues with whom I have worked”, he said. And he has justified that he renounced his responsibilities in Moncloa and Ferraz for his family. “Silence is an answer,” he added.
Of course, he has been complaining that the allegations against him and his “private life” later are not the subject of the commission, but the president, the popular Eloy Suárez, has given the senators a free hand to bring it up. Salazar also said that when he was with Pilar Alegría – a photo that went viral and that the PP uses as a weapon against the PSOE – the then minister and spokesperson for the Spanish government – who called the allegations “vomiting” – was interested in knowing how his wife, daughter and mother were doing. “It is logical that someone with an average humanist feeling is interested in the family, nothing more,” he argued.
The first to question him was the UPN senator, Mar Caballero, who focused on the PSOE primaries won by Pedro Sánchez and on the plots of alleged corruption that the Socialists are spreading. After sources from the PP presented him as “one more of the Peugeot clan” and one of the “greatest exponents” of Sanchism, he said that he knows nothing about the car in which Sánchez traveled around Spain to lead the PSOE again: “I haven’t even seen it”, he replied.
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