Feijóo says that the PP settled a “complaint” by two councilors for sexual harassment only with the explanations of the accused senator

“We know this can happen.” This is how the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feiojóo, explained this Tuesday the brief investigation opened in his party after the publication of some WhatsApp screenshots that indicate the senator and mayor of Algeciras (Cádiz), José Ignacio Landaluce, as the alleged aggressor. It was Feijóo himself who explained what happened in an interview on esRadio in which he stated that after “a reference came out” to Landaluce “we automatically spoke to him and this matter was clarified.” elDiario.es has tried to gather more information, but the PP leadership has not responded at the moment.

“Any type of complaint that there is about my party, we have to investigate it, if it occurs,” Feijóo said on the Federico Jiménez Losantos program. “Yesterday there was a reference to one of our senators and we automatically spoke to him,” he pointed out in reference to a fleeting publication on the Telegram channel of Alvise Pérez, leader of Salf, where the MEP posted some WhatsApp screenshots in which, supposedly, , two PP councilors report behaviors ranging from insults to sexual assault. The content was deleted almost immediately.

But the information reached the PP, which began an “investigation,” according to Feijóo. “They cannot accuse us of giving lessons in everything and not being an example of anything, we leave that to them,” said the leader of the PP.

“No one puts their hand in the fire for anyone,” he assured. “And for more than a year and a half, you have been covering up facts that lead not only to isolating this person but also to promoting him at the highest level as a spokesperson for your group,” he concluded, in reference to Íñigo Errejón.

elDiario.es has tried to gather more information about the procedure followed by the PP for the alleged behavior committed by Landaluce. Last week, when the Errejón scandal broke, the general secretary of the PP said that the party has a “protocol” for action in the face of these types of accusations. The protocol, which PP leadership sources said exists, is not published on the party’s transparency website nor has it been made available to journalists who have requested it.