Izquierda Unida investigates an alleged case of sexual abuse of an advisor to the municipal group of Oviedo, who has already resigned

Izquierda Unida investigates the complaints received on an Instagram profile, for alleged sexual abuse, which point to the press officer of the IU Municipal Group in the Oviedo City Council. This person resigned yesterday from all his positions within the organization, as well as from his job at the Oviedo city council.

The head of Equality at IU Asturias, Begoña Collado, and general director of Democratic Memory of the Principality, explained to elDiario.es Asturias that they were not aware of this matter until on Sunday afternoon “complaints arose” in a group of instagram. At that time, he details, all the published information was collected and transferred to the competent body, which is the Care Commission of the federal management of IU.

Collado has reported that upon learning of these complaints they spoke with this person, he denies the facts and announces legal action. The person responsible for Equality in the Asturian organization highlights the “promptness” with which they acted since within 24 hours they reacted and “this person is no longer part of our organization,” she points out.

From elDiario.es Asturias we have contacted Gaspar Llamazares, spokesperson for the IU Municipal Group in the Oviedo City Council, who did not want to make statements on the matter, ensuring that “the word in this case is Izquierda Unida en Asturias” and clarifying that the person to whom the complaints allegedly point is not an advisor to the group but rather its press officer.

We have also tried to contact him, but at the time of this publication he had not responded to our messages.

The Instagram profile in which these complaints have been made public was launched at the beginning of November and already includes more than 50 anonymous testimonies from women who report, in these publications, different situations of harassment, abuse and attacks. sexual.