Overview
- The Móstoles court section that handles gender and sexual violence accepted a former councillor’s criminal complaint against Mayor Manuel Bautista and the local PP, which allows an investigation to start.
- The filing accuses them of sexual harassment, workplace harassment against moral integrity, injuries, coercion, and disclosure of secrets.
- The public prosecutor asked the court to move the case forward, and the judge admitted the complaint presented by lawyer Antonio Suárez-Valdés.
- The former PP councillor filed the case in February after saying internal reports went nowhere and after meetings with regional party leaders who allegedly urged her not to go public or go to court.
- Facing the case, Bautista said he will not resign, argued he has not yet received the complaint’s contents, and won backing from senior PP figures, while the central government’s delegate said he should step down before a scheduled Local Security Board meeting.