The secretary of Mobilization and Dynamization of the FSA-PSOE, Pilar Huerta, and her partner, Ignacio Cifuentes, president of the PP of Sariego, presented their voluntary resignation yesterday Sunday after they were arrested on Saturday night in the town of Posada de Llanera accused of a crime of assault on authority for an incident with agents of the Civil Guard.
According to sources close to the investigation, the events took place on Saturday night when Cifuentes, also number five in Sariego's local candidacy, was arrested for threatening to kill and attacking the agents who went to the Plaza de la Constitución in said town after receiving a notice that he was mistreating a minor.
According to the same sources, Cifuentes was clearly intoxicated when he was arrested for resisting and attacking authority in the presence of Huerta who, at first, rebuked the officers and hindered police action, for which he was informed of that would be denounced.
Later, when the man was being put in a vehicle to be taken to the cells, the socialist leader was arrested for insulting, threatening and shoving the civil guards, with one of whom she even struggled on the ground after pounced on them .
As reported by the FSA-PSOE yesterday in a statement, Huerta presented his resignation as a militant on Sunday, which was accepted by the party "while the facts are clarified", while PP sources confirmed that Cifuentes resigned "voluntarily ".
For his part, the general secretary of the FSA-PSOE, Adrián Barbón, assured yesterday Sunday when asked by journalists during an electoral act in Gijón that he did not know details of what happened except that Huerta announced this morning his resignation from the militancy.
"In that we are emphatic. The Socialists have the bar very high and, at the slightest doubt and until things are clarified, it is a good step," he warned after stating that "this does not happen in other parties" and considering it important that in these cases there are "forceful gestures".
