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]]>According to the information known, Esteban has not only abandoned his responsibilities within Vox, but has also wanted to make public his version of events. In a message posted on the social network X and picked up by Europa Press, the former leader has assured that he will prove his innocence and has attributed the origin of the accusation to leaders of the youth organization Revuelta, whom he points out as directly responsible for promoting the complaint.
An immediate resignation in order «not to harm Vox».
In his communiqué, Javier Esteban explains that he has decided to step aside immediately. «None of this affects the party,» he maintains, while justifying his departure as a way to avoid further damage to the political formation. In the same message he also announces that he is abandoning his work responsibilities, recalling that he joined Vox in 2014 and has been part of the project for more than a decade.
Esteban affirms that his resignation as a militant is voluntary and responds to the desire not to drag the party into a controversy that, in his opinion, has an origin outside Vox. «I have never assaulted anyone. I will prove my innocence,» he states emphatically in his publication.
The complaint for alleged sexual harassment
The existence of the complaint was published by the newspapers ABC and El Mundo. According to these reports, a militant of Vox and of the youth organization Revuelta filed a complaint against Javier Esteban for alleged sexual harassment. The facts denounced would have occurred in 2023, when the young man was 16 years old.
According to what was published, Esteban had sent insistent messages to the minor to arrange meetings, to which he agreed. In one of these appointments, the then head of social networks of the party allegedly made touching «with sexual and libidinous spirit». The complainant, who is currently 18 years old, also told the police that there could be at least two other cases involving minors.
These revelations have generated a strong commotion, not only because of the seriousness of the facts denounced, but also because of the organic position that Esteban occupied within the party.
The accusations against Revuelta
In his public defense, Javier Esteban has focused much of his speech on pointing to the leadership of Revuelta, the youth organization linked to Vox. Specifically, he points to Jaime Hernandez and Pablo Gonzalez Gasca as those responsible for the accusation.
The former head of networks recalls that last November 30 he publicly denounced that both leaders «refused to show the accounts that only they manage in Revuelta». In his message, he establishes a direct link between that denunciation and the emergence of the case. «After leaking audios and spreading lies, they try to present me as someone perverse. I am not,» he says.
Esteban also highlights the timing of the complaint. As he points out, this is presented «two years after the alleged facts» and «only a few days after» demanding transparency about the economic management of the youth organization. «Anyone can see the relationship,» he says.
A self-defense message
The statement released by Javier Esteban has a markedly defensive tone. In addition to denying the facts, he insists that he has never committed an aggression and that his goal now is to prove his innocence. «I have never assaulted anyone. I will prove my innocence,» he reiterates.
In the same text, he insists on disassociating Vox from the case and pointing out that the controversy responds to an internal conflict with Revuelta’s management. «It is the determination of Jaime and Pablo to control Revuelta and continue to hide the accounts that they have managed and continue to manage without control,» he says.
The message concludes with a particularly harsh sentence: «I doubt very much that others will be able to do the same», in reference to the ability to prove innocence in the face of accusations.
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]]>La entrada Serious accusations shaking the PSOE: humiliations, sexual comments and fear in the Francisco Salazar case se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The first complainant filed her complaint on July 28. He began with a strong sentence: «I have worked for Paco Salazar in Moncloa and what is said is true».
She describes an «unbreathable» work environment and behaviors that mixed misogyny, humiliation and constant sexualization: «Her behavior exuded misogyny and sliminess in every comment disguised as a joke she made. His language was hypersexualized even to say good morning».
One of the episodes recounted is particularly graphic: «He would come out of the bathroom he had in his office half-dressed and wouldn’t zipper up until he was near your face (because you were sitting and he was standing).» At another point, he states: «One day, in the middle of the office, he staged a fellatio in great detail and out of the blue».
The woman confesses that she decided to file a complaint despite her «panic», even moving to another province and using someone else’s computer so that there would be no trace: «I’m still afraid», she says in her letter.
The behaviors described go beyond inappropriate teasing. The complainant points to intimidation and retaliation tactics:
And he explains the consequences of trying to set limits: «If you set limits, you paid the consequences. Suddenly, you had nothing to do because he would pull you out of projects. Or he’d call the whole team into meetings and you’d be left out.»
The second complaint was filed on July 8. It also comes from a young, highly qualified worker: «We all had two degrees, an exceptional résumé and were strikingly educated for our age. And that job was our dream.»
Her testimony confirms a clear pattern: «He would come in the morning and tell you what a great ass those pants made you or ask you to show him your cleavage.» He adds that the humiliating comments were constant and always public: «If he saw you looking bad, he would ask you in the middle of the office if you had slept too little because you had sex».
And he talks again about fear: «He subjected us to humiliating situations that for many of us were traumatic. He said they were jokes, but I never heard him say similar things to men».
The men on the team, he says, were warned: «They were discouraged from approaching Paco’s girls», and adds that in Moncloa «Paco likes ‘girls’ and that is something that absolutely everyone in the Presidency of the Government knew».
Both complaints coincide on one point: the feeling of lack of protection within the party. The first one expresses it crudely: «Is this the party and the government that is going to protect us?
The second one states it in her own terms: «I have to see a group of ministers half-heartedly defending this gentleman using the argument that no woman had previously filed a complaint (…) That argument hurts me as much as if they told me that we were wearing our skirts too short».
The two complaints, filed through official channels, disappeared from the internal channel. Ferraz now maintains that it was a problem of computer «obfuscation».
After the journalistic investigation, the PSOE has acknowledged that: «neither of the two has been processed or instructed in these five months ‘due to lack of diligence'». And that no support was offered: «Therefore, neither of the two women has been offered any support or response». Only when elDiario.es contacted Ferraz did the writings reappear in the system.
One of the complainants explains why she remains in the PSOE: «No, sorry. It’s just that my values are those of this party and the one who acts against those values is him». The other asks for something simple: «Just that the one I always thought was my party be up to the task.»
elDiario.es has been able to confirm that Paco Salazar maintains an external consultancy with Salvador Illa, something that several women describe as «inconceivable». The PSC denies: «It does not ‘currently’ have a ‘contractual relationship’ with the party».
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