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The secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, said Friday about the lawyer José Manuel Calvente who was fired for "a very serious sexual harassment case" and has challenged "everyone who accuses Podemos" of having committed irregularities or crimes to go "to court and to settle."

Before attending the act of commemoration of Constitution Day in Congress, Pablo Iglesias has thus responded to journalists who have asked him about the dismissal on Monday of the until then responsible for Data Protection of the party, after opening a file for a alleged sexual and labor harassment of a worker.

The purple address confirmed this point after a lawyer from the Calvente team and responsible for Regulatory Compliance in training, Monica Carmona, addressed a letter to the State Citizen Council, published in various media, in which she claimed that both had been victims of retaliation for investigating irregularities in Podemos.

Calvente himself has advanced to EFE that will file a slander complaint directed, among others, against the Secretary of Organization, Alberto Rodríguez, Deputy Ione Belarra and the manager, Rocío Val, who accuses of "building false evidence" to justify a dismissal that he attributes to having wanted to investigate the "corrupts" of Podemos.

Calvente denies that the accusations of Pablo Iglesias's party are true, and that they are included in the dismissal letter he received on Monday, a document of about 20 pages - as EFE has been able to verify - that contains documentation and messages to prove that alleged harassment sexual, which would later result in workplace harassment of said employee, according to sources of the purple address.

The lawyer, who worked for Podemos since 2014, denies all the facts and insists on denouncing a persecution for months after trying to clarify some irregularities that were detected after receiving several internal complaints about contracts or dismissals.

Among them, he also mentions the existence of "bonuses" not regulated in Podemos and "indications of criminality" in some actions of the purple training that required "correction", such as "manipulation of the primaries to benefit certain candidates" or non-compliance of the data protection regulations.

From the purple address they deny EFE sharply those accusations and insist that there has been "a dismissal for sexual and labor harassment of a worker."

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