Two women who worked under Francisco Salazar, former Moncloa advisor, filed sexual harassment complaints in the PSOE's internal channel that vanished for five months. Both detail misogynistic and humiliating behaviors in the workplace. The party admitted a lack of diligence and reactivated the cases after elDiario.es intervention.
Francisco Salazar, known as Paco Salazar, former advisor close to Pedro Sánchez and ex-president of the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela, faces new sexual harassment allegations from subordinates in Moncloa. elDiario.es accessed two writings filed in July on the PSOE's anti-harassment channel, which vanished from the system for five months without any response from Ferraz.
The first complaint, filed on July 8, comes from a young PSOE affiliate with an outstanding academic record. It describes explicit comments on her clothing and physical appearance, such as asking her to show her cleavage or bend over to demonstrate flexibility. “He would arrive in the morning and tell you how good your butt looked in those pants or ask you to show him your cleavage,” she recounts in a conversation with the newspaper. She adds that Salazar subjected women to humiliating situations, like asking in the office if they slept poorly due to sexual relations, and never directed similar jokes at men. He also warned male team members against approaching the women, stating that he liked “the girls.”
The second complaint, from July 28, details an “unbreathable” environment with hypersexualized language and degrading gestures. The complainant recounts that Salazar emerged from the bathroom half-dressed, did not zip up until near her face, and staged a fellatio in the office. “He knew when he made you uncomfortable and clearly enjoyed it,” she writes, explaining how he punished those who set boundaries by excluding them from projects or yelling at them publicly.
Both women, with strong professional profiles and ideological commitment, expressed fear in reporting and criticized the party's inaction. The PSOE acknowledged an “IT error” and promised to contact them, while Salazar resigned in summer after prior testimonies and maintains an external consultancy with the PSC, denied by the Catalan party. The affected women demand that the PSOE rise to the occasion and prevent such behaviors from recurring.