The mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, resigns after complaints of sexual assault

The mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, has announced on his social networks that he will resign from his position on October 25, three days before the motion of censure presented by the PSOE and Vox following complaints of alleged sexual assaults.

In a video broadcast on his social networks, Landaluce regretted that this motion "forces" him to present his resignation as mayor, reiterating that the facts attributed to him, in relation to alleged sexual assaults on two PP activists, are "false."

"In the face of a great montage with unfair attacks, in the face of a great montage, I will defend myself before justice, I will fight to show my innocence and I hope that those who have made this whole montage can be held accountable," he stated.

"I reiterate my absolute innocence in the face of false, flatly false accusations and I will defend my honor and that of my family through legal means. I leave with serenity, a clear conscience and the pride of having served Algeciras. Truth and justice will prevail," he expressed.

Landaluce says that the decision to resign is "forced" by the lack of support in the municipal government and that he will leave "with a clear conscience" next Sunday, two days after his court date for one of the two complaints he has received from two PP activists for alleged sexual assaults and three days before the motion of censure that was going to remove him from the position he has held for 15 years was held on the 28th.

"Fear has changed sides"

The young activist of New Generations of the PP who has denounced the mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, for an alleged sexual assault, has confessed in an open letter that, if something stopped her from denouncing the events before, it was the fear "of what would come next" and has assured that, despite the fact that "some of those fears have come true", now "the fear has changed sides."

The young activist, a trusted position in the City Council's Senior Care Office, has published an open letter in the Europa Sur newspaper to her residents of Algeciras to ask that their opinions on the case be accompanied "with responsibility, empathy and a minimum of humanity."