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“This legal action is intended for those who spread such unfounded accusations to retract, apologize and assume financial compensation for a charitable entity,” the party said in a statement, in which it recalled that this alleged plot “is carried out by a civil servant” without ties to the PRC.
The PRC has provided documentation proving that the homes of the Minister of the Presidency, Paula Fernández, and the mayor of Torrelavega, Javier López Estrada, were not built by any of the companies investigated, as was hinted at on social networks.
As explained by the party, Fernández’s house was promoted by another company years before one of those involved set up its offices in one of the basements of the building “without having participated in the construction”, nor having had “any commercial relationship , nor of another type” with the head of the Presidency.
In the same way, and in relation to López Estrada, the lawsuit states that he “has never hired” that same company either, since his home was promoted by a different one.
Likewise, it clarifies that Revilla’s daughter, alluded to in the “smear campaign” spread on social networks, “has never provided any service” to that company.
In favor of a charity
In view of all the documentation provided, the Regionalist Party will urge those who spread “falsehoods with the purpose of discrediting their public officials” to justify their motives and the sources of information on which they based their statements.
They will be given the opportunity to retract, in addition to claiming financial compensation of 3,000 euros (1,000 for each of the defamed persons) in favor of a charity.
In the event that the conciliation does not prosper, the PRC advises that it will adopt the corresponding legal actions.
“Slander cannot go unpunished,” says Revilla
The president of Cantabria and general secretary of the PRC, Miguel Ángel Revilla, has said about the lawsuit that slander and lies “cannot go unpunished” and that the courts will have to intervene if those who launch them do not rectify.
“We cannot be here at the focus of the anger of so many heartless people who have no scruples in slandering or telling lies about people,” the president said, when asked by journalists.
Revilla has defended that in politics you can disagree but “not fall into a situation of insults and launch measures that are later transferred to each other in the networks.” “And if you don’t go out and replicate it, people think it’s true,” he added.
“That cannot go unpunished because if we are not going to enter a terrible society and I am seeing that there is a tension and verbal violence in some that I have not seen before,” he lamented.
Revilla considers that there is now “a kind of impunity” with social networks, and has indicated that some people have tried to involve their government in the alleged plot, when “it has been proven that there is no person who has the slightest hint of having collaborated with this predator of the public”, he added, thus alluding to the jailed official.
