This Wednesday, the Extremadura Government dismissed the president’s driver, María Guardiola, after learning that this worker was convicted “for minor coercion” in relation to a crime of gender violence, a fact of which the head of the regional Executive was not aware, according to a statement from the Extremadura Government.
The advisor to the Presidency and , already stated early in the morning that the driver would be dismissed immediately at the moment in which the Government confirmed said sentence, which has been known through information published by The Plural and which the PSOE has echoed.
According to this media outlet, the driver faces six months of estrangement from his ex-partner, thirty days of community work and withdrawal of his weapons permit. According to official sources of the regional government, the president had no prior knowledge of the events or of the existence of “a conviction for minor coercion” related to this worker.
It was the worker himself who informed María Guardiola of this situation this Wednesday by email and, later, in a telephone conversation, in which, according to the aforementioned statement, he acknowledged “the sentence for minor coercion, already served, and apologized for not having communicated it to her beforehand.” The worker has immediately made himself available to the president, and in this situation, “he has been terminated.”
