The mayor of Villar de Cañas (Cuenca), José María Saiz, is not going to resign. He has said so after the Popular Party suspended him from militancy for insulting the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero. He will stay as mayor until his term ends and he has not ruled out running in the municipal elections on May 28 with another party. “I have to finish the legislature”, he has explained to elDiarioclm.es.
They ask that the Prosecutor’s Office “act” against the mayor of Villar de Cañas for his “outbursts” against Irene Montero and Page
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In addition, he has also indicated that the Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha has not notified him that he has to leave the Mayor’s Office of the town of Cuenca. “If they tell me, I’ll have to do it, but if not, I’m not going to do it,” she specified. On the other hand, and as EFE has advanced, the mayor claims to have received “many offers” from other parties for the upcoming elections. “But I don’t know right now, I haven’t even thought about it,” he admits to this medium.
Sources from the regional Popular Party point out that it would only stop representing the formation within the local government if it leaves the municipal group or if it is voted to leave it.
The PP of Castilla-La Mancha suspended this mayor from militancy, who in an interview insulted the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, of whom he said that “she has sores in her mouth from sucking pigtails.” With this decision, and as confirmed by party sources, Saiz can no longer be the party’s candidate for mayor of this town but can be for another party. The provincial PP of Cuenca must now name another head of the list.
His expulsion was announced by the Popular Party through a statement and one day before 8M, International Women’s Day, after the Committee on Rights and Guarantees of the formation made this decision. They explain that, following the deadlines indicated by procedures of this type and in response to the allegations presented by him in the file, it is agreed to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Saiz “for the facts related to the statements about a minister of the Government of Spain”.
The president of the PP in Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, stated, regarding the decision to expel him, that the party “has done its job” and asked the PSOE and the regional secretary of the Socialists, Emiliano García-Page, to proceed along the same lines and expel the mayor of Valdepeñas, Jesús Martín, “who has seriously insulted the PP spokeswoman” in this town from the party.
