To prostitution scandal: Spanish authorities social gathering prohibits members of paid intercourse | EUROtoday

The socialist social gathering in Spain (PSOE), shaken by a scandal, is now prohibiting its members the usage of paid intercourse. Members who use prostitutes are excluded from the PSOE, as the federal government social gathering introduced on Saturday.

A number of days in the past, the PSOE basic secretary Santos Cerdán was arrested and resigned in the midst of a scandal about lubrication and prostitute.

The seek for and utilizing intercourse towards cost will in future be punished “with the highest possible punishment, that is, the party exclusion”, the PSOE stated after a gathering of the social gathering council in Madrid. “If we assume that a woman’s body is not for sale, there can be no space in our party for the opposite behavior,” stated social gathering and authorities chief Pedro Sánchez.

The social gathering’s assembly on Saturday had began with delaying as a result of an in depth head of the federal government, Francisco Salazar, had submitted his resignation. Salazar ought to have been elected to the social gathering govt. According to the information web site of Elddiario, a number of feminine social gathering members had accused him of “inappropriate behavior” as their supervisor.

Sánchez: “The captain does not work if there are difficulties”

The socialist social gathering is at the moment passing by “difficult days”, Sánchez admitted in a speech to the social gathering council and once more requested for a forgiveness that he had trusted those that are suspect of corruption. Sánchez concluded a resignation: “The captain does not work if there are difficulties. He remains to face the storm,” he emphasised.

Former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos can be concerned within the corruption scandal round Cerdán. Both had contributed considerably to the promotion of Sánchez to the social gathering chief. The revelations triggered the most important political disaster in Sánchez.

The largest opposition social gathering, the conservative PP, held a particular social gathering convention in an euphoric temper in view of the issues at PSOE on Saturday. “We are the only possible alternative to this decadence,” stated social gathering chief Núñez Feijóo in a speech to the delegates.