Inés Rey, member of the PSOE executive, considers that José Tomé’s resignation has been “insufficient”
The mayor of A Coruña and member of the PSOE executive, Inés Rey, stated this Friday on Cadena SER that the fact that she left her position as president of the Lugo Provincial Council but maintains the mayor’s office of Monforte de Lemos after complaints of sexual harassment has been insufficient: “I think that the fact that José Tomé has resigned from the presidency of the Lugo Provincial Council has been insufficient. If one resigns due to a case of harassment, the case of harassment is not limited to the Provincial Council. In the Presidency of the Provincial Council, yes, and in the City Council, no? I think the image, well, is not edifying.” Rey has pointed out that it is necessary to “act firmly” in cases of harassment: “If there are signs of a crime, obviously we must go to the prosecutor’s office and we must support and accompany the victims on that path, which is complicated, which is painful and they cannot feel alone.”
Furthermore, Rey does not understand that the party leadership takes so long to give details of the situation: “I don’t find much of an explanation, and what worries me is that neither does the party and the citizens. In a case like this, I think we have to be very forceful, act firmly and quickly.” In this sense, Rey has indicated that “citizens and voters expect a response from the party of feminism that has carried out all the legal reforms and the achievement of women’s rights.” “This type of behavior, in addition to being intolerable, we have the obligation to eradicate it,” he noted in Today for Today.
Asked by her, she indicated that it was “very forceful” because it was “a matter of hours,” and added that “perhaps the problem is that the anti-harassment protocol” of the party must be improved. “In any case, in this party we act sometimes faster and other times less quickly than we would like. What happens is that it seems that sometimes forcefulness is confused with the fact of removing it,” concludes the member of the Socialist Executive who demands this “forcefulness at the federal level and in Galicia because they are behaviors that have no place not only in a political party, but in society.”
