Madrid .- The (PSOE) Socialist Party Tuesday provisionally suspended from membership to former Minister of Spanish Justice Juan Fernando López Aguilar, after it was charged with an alleged crime of domestic violence against his ex-wife.
“I have nothing to do with the facts alleged against me,” said the accused in an interview to the Spanish public television, DPA .
The party leadership also decided to remove him from the Spanish Socialist delegation in the European Parliament, which holds a seat since 2009. Predictably will become part of the group deputies not attached.
This was announced Tuesday PSOE after analyzing the case and after López Aguilar asked himself the temporary drop in training.
“We want to be the first to respond to the Spanish society that commitment of the Socialist Party in the fight against gender violence” PSOE spokesman in the Congress of Deputies, Antonio Hernando.
The former Minister of Justice denied being “author of physical and verbal abuse” that is now his ex-wife and defended his “innocence” in a statement on Monday night by Spanish media.
“It’s the most painful moment of my life. This is the worst that I have lived because it is a false accusation and I have to defend defending not only my innocence but also my honor “today told public television.
López Aguilar was denounced for alleged abuse of his ex-wife, with whom he has two children, minors. The family of the woman alleged in a Court of Gran Canaria (where it originated former minister) who harmed physically and psychologically during the years in which they lived.
“It hits me where it hurts me. I have received many warnings that if divorce proceedings culminated I was going to hit where it hurts, “said Aguilar, who had left the family home on the island of Gran Canaria” long ago “, he said.
The Court of Gran Canaria, specializing in violence against women, the facts submitted to the Supreme Court, which is responsible for instructing any criminal case against López Aguilar for being a volumetric . The high court will examine the documentation and decide in the coming days if you are investigating.
López Aguilar, 53, received another complaint in January for alleged abuse of his ex-wife, He filed by her son, from a previous relationship. It was removed 24 hours after denying women the facts.
The Guarantees Commission for Equality of the PSOE He met Tuesday to discuss the facts, he told the microphones of the Spanish public radio the “number two” party, César Luena, who announced that the training would act with “caution and forcefulness.”
López Aguilar was justice minister in the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero between 2004 and 2007. Encouraged creating courts of violence on women and headed the area of Justice when the government approved in 2004, the law against gender violence.
In 2009 was head of the PSOE list for the European elections and has since become MEP.
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