The Secretary of Mobilization and Dynamization of the FSA-PSOE, Pilar Huerta, and her partner, Ignacio Cifuentes, president of the PP of Sariego, have submitted their resignation voluntarily after yesterday they were arrested in the town of Posada de Llanera accused of a crime of attack on authority for an incident with agents of the Civil Guard.

According to sources close to the investigation, the events were recorded last night when Cifuentes, also number five of the local candidacy of Sariego, was arrested for threatening to kill and attacking the agents who moved to the Plaza de la Constitución of that town after receiving a notice that he was mistreating a minor.

Cifuentes presented, according to the same sources, an evident state of drunkenness when he was arrested for resistance and attack on authority in the presence of Huerta who, at first, rebuked the agents and hindered the police action for which she was informed that she would be denounced.

Later, when the man was being introduced into a vehicle to be taken to the dungeons, the socialist leader was arrested for uttering insults, threats and pushes to the civil guards, with one of whom came to struggle on the ground after pounced on them.

As reported by the FSA-PSOE in a statement, Huerta has presented today his withdrawal as a militant, which has been accepted by the party "while the facts are clarified", while sources of the PP have confirmed that Cifuentes has submitted his resignation "voluntarily".

For his part, the secretary general of the FSA-PSOE, Adrián Barbón, has assured to questions from journalists during an electoral act in Gijón not to know details of what happened except that Huerta has communicated this morning his resignation from militancy.

"In that we are categorical. The Socialists have the bar very high and, before the slightest doubt and until the thing is clarified is a good step, "he warned after affirming that "that in other parties does not happen" and consider important that in these cases there are "forceful gestures".

  • PSOE
  • PP
  • Civil Guard
  • Asturias
  • Adrian Barbon

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