The ex-Mayor stands accused of sexual harassment over a period of months against a female councillor in his own party.

The prosecutor also recommends 20 months being barred from acting as mayor or any other public post, plus a further four years being barred from any other profession, office that puts him in direct, regular contact with minors.

Add to this several years of probation and court orders to maintain his distance from the alleged victim, and just to top it all of, if found guilty he will have to pay 25,000 euros compensation to the victim.

According to the prosecutor’s report, the victim and the then mayor shared an office and had attended several public events together as part of their duties, corresponding to their posts.

In the beginning there relationship between 2021 and 2022 was strictly professional, however from August 2022 until November 2023 the councillor claims that she was subjected to “absolutely degrading treatment.”

This treatment, according to the Public Prosecutor’s office included, “imtimdating propositions and offensive behaviour, addressing her in “unacceptable manner with observations to her physical form.”

As a consequence of the alleged unwanted attention, she applied for sick leave, but apparently it did stop there, according to the prosecutor, as from that moment on he took advantage of their being alone in the office to sexually harass her which finally led her to take him to court.

She also has a lawyer, María Gallego Cano, who is heading a private prosecution in the case and who recommends seven-years’ imprisonment. Also, the compensation proposed she has elevated to 35,000 euros.

Ex-Mayor was tried in the first instance at the Órgiva law court specialised in gender violence and consequently resigned from office last November as well as resigned from the conservative, Partido Popular.

(News: El Pinar, Valle de Lecrin, Granada, Andalucia)