The mayoress of Sabadell, Marta Farrés (PSC), has explained in a Twitter thread the dismissal of the until now deputy mayor Jesús Rodríguez -of the same political party- and has indicated: "He has threatened and coerced me with an aggressive attitude and has tried to blackmail."
Farrés begins by pointing out that "Jesús Rodríguez has threatened and coerced me with an aggressive attitude, and has tried to blackmail me by spreading false complaints if I did not change the decision not to incorporate him into the PSC Sabadell electoral candidacy proposal."
He points out that "it has really been a situation that I would never have imagined in any way, much less from someone who until today was a group and party mate for many years." Rodríguez was the third deputy mayor.
The mayoress points out that a point of no return has been reached and, she added, "I have no choice but to denounce him, remove him from his government responsibilities and inform the PSC that, according to what they have told me, he has been suspended of militancy".
Farrés acknowledges that "it has not been an easy decision, but I cannot accept in any way that anyone tries to undermine my will and the decisions I make in the exercise of my duties and powers, with coercion and threats."
Finally, she has made it clear that she will never accept "any blackmail, whoever it comes from" and in this sense her "responsibility as mayoress is above all else, even if it entails hard times" like the one she has "lived through" today. "Thank you all for the shows of support" concludes her statement on her Twitter account.
According to municipal and PSC Sabadell sources, Rodríguez has not accepted his party's decision to leave him off the electoral list and has behaved aggressively against the mayoress in her office on Monday.
In the municipal statement and from his party, they indicate that "Rodríguez has threatened the mayoress with filing false complaints against her, other members of the corporation, house officials if she did not reconsider her continuity as a member of the electoral list."
Rodríguez is no longer a deputy mayor or a member of the municipal government. His party, the PSC, has begun the process to expel him, and asks him for the act of councilor in the final two months of the mandate.
