València (EFE).- A member of the PSPV-PSOE candidacy for the Valencia City Council, Camilo Monsalve, has resigned from participating in the elections this Sunday after being arrested for an incident that has not yet been specified, according to sources from the EFE municipal group.
The newspaper Las Provincias advances this Friday that the candidate, who was at number 20 on the list, is a member of the Latin Kings and an intercultural mediator.
Monsalve resigned from taking the councilor’s certificate or running for any public office after being arrested as a result of a complaint filed against him by a young man from Latino gangs with whom he worked as a mediator, as he explained this Friday, in a Twitter thread, the vice mayor of Valencia and candidate for mayor, Sandra Gómez.
Gómez has made these statements after the information provided by the newspaper Las Provincias and which has been echoed, in that same social network, by the Vice-Secretary for Institutional Action of the PP and Valencian MEP, Esteban González Pons.
“The media have already warned us that for days you have been from Madrid trying to sell a poor story that nobody has wanted to buy from you. You have to carry out a very bad campaign in Valencia so that the spokesman in the European Parliament of the PP dedicates himself to defaming a young man who is 20 on a municipal list, ”says Gómez.
Gómez assures that he is a recognized volunteer
Monsalve “dedicates all his free time to getting other kids out of Latino gangs, he is the coordinator of Jóvenes sin Fronteras and vice president of Valencia Acoge. He is a renowned Valencian volunteer who works for the inclusion of young Latinos”, he adds.
“One of those kids that he has helped as soon as he heard that he would be incorporated into the municipal list denounced it as a form of extortion. Politics has that -according to the socialist candidate-, there are miserable people who generate these situations and guys like Esteban (González Pons) who live politically from them ”.
‘Unfortunate accusation’
Gómez assures that at the time this “unfortunate accusation” arose, Monsalve, who works at Ford, “resigned from taking the minutes and holding any public office to prevent anyone from using it with the aim of eroding the image of the project and , above all, stigmatize Latinos in the city.”
“We condemn this miserable use by the Popular Party of a fact that the only thing it shows is that among the Socialist Party there are people committed to integration and who are on the streets helping to make a better city,” according to the deputy mayor.
Likewise, he has regretted the “attempt to stigmatize the Latino community that they make with their complaint” and has asked that “they refrain from trying to harm more people in their desperate attempt given the certainty that they are going to lose the elections this Sunday.” EFE
