The PSOE of Andalusia filed this Thursday four complaints for insult and defamation before two Courts of First Instance in Madrid and Seville against a total of eleven leaders of Vox and PP, among whom the popular vice-secretary Elías Bendodo and the parliamentary spokesman Miguel. Tellado. In their demands, the socialists collect oral and written statements through the social networks of these leaders in which they accuse the socialists of “steal” the money of the Andalusians following the rulings of the Constitutional Court which annul, in whole or in part, the sentences of former high-ranking socialist officials, including former Presidents of the Council, Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán.
The general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia, Juan Espadas, has revealed the details of these demands to journalists. Specifically, his party has previously filed a reconciliation bill with an investigative court in Madrid against Bendodo and Tellado. He has also filed a complaint against the parliamentary spokesman of the Vox group in Congress, Pepa Millán.
In the Court of First Instance of Seville, the PSOE of Andalusia is directing its claims against the advisers of the presidency, Antonio Sanz, and of Justice, José Antonio Nieto, and the secretary general of the PP, Antonio Repullo. Own Swords also signs a fourth complaint against five Vox leaders for convening and participating in a meeting in front of the PSOE regional headquarters of Andalusia on the central street San Vicente in Seville on July 15, where the ultra party displayed posters and leaflets with the slogan Give back what was stolen. This complaint is directed against regional deputies Manuel Gavira, Javier Cortés and Ana María Ruiz, and Vox councillors in the Seville City Council Gonzalo García de Polavieja and Fernando Rodríguez Galisteo.
The PSOE's judicial action is a response to the party's strategy of “not letting any pass”, according to its leaders, after the ruling of the Constitutional Court, in which the Provincial Court of Seville is ordered to declare the sentences null and void or to revise them downwards.
When Espadas announced the presentation of the complaints against Vox and the PP during the government’s parliamentary scrutiny session on Thursday, the far-right group’s deputies rose to applaud him. Several deputies from the PP bench also showed their identity documents and challenged the PSOE secretary general to put their names in the lawsuit.
The Socialist has chosen as his last question to the President of the Board of Directors, Juan Manuel Moreno, of the current term, a question about the sentences of the Guarantee Court, which has surprised the PP leader. Moreno has expressed his surprise that the PSOE is focusing on “removing the darkest past of the PSOE”, referring to the case of the ERE, “There are problems in Andalusia as they are.”
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Moreno’s thesis is that this election, which he has attributed to Moncloa, aims to “cover up the Koldo case, the case of the director of the Women’s Institute, the case in which the president of the government has been summoned to testify” because of the activities of his wife, Begoña Gómez. Espadas has urged Moreno to stop saying that the Socialists “stole 680 million euros from the Andalusian unemployed.” “He is lying,” said the Socialist secretary general.