The campaign for the local and regional elections last May in the Valencian Community was dirty. Beyond the dialectic of the political candidates, the streets of the three capitals of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón, in particular, were filled with graffiti, leaflets and posters against the PSOE, which at the time governed both the Generalitat and the City Council of Castellón in addition to heading the Spanish government. The allegations occurred during the general election campaign in July and beyond.
The Socialists decided to go to court because they believed that the PP was behind this dirty game and because they believed that these types of strategies should not be normalized, which in some cases was also an insult to those responsible depicted how they denounced before the public prosecutor's office. The investigation into these reported actions has confirmed suspicions. Two PP officials from Valencia and Castellón are behind two of these actions.
In March, the first brochures appeared on “Ximo Puig's business”, in which cases investigated by the judiciary were mixed with the accusation of the then President of the Generalitat, although he is not indicted in any case. “Distribution of millions to the family, friends and party of PSPV, José Muñoz, in his complaint to the Prosecutor's Office. He already suspected that the PP was behind the leaflets that appeared in mailboxes of houses in Alicante and Valencia, due to the font and images used, which the Popular Party also used in its official election campaign. The president of the Valencian PP and current Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, denied being behind this campaign against Puig.
The investigations following the complaint to the Public Prosecutor's Office revealed that the person responsible for the preparation and distribution of the brochures was Carlos Navarro Ahicart, secretary of digital marketing of the PP of Valencia, who acknowledged the authorship when he went to the Statement was called. According to him, he also wrote the text “in the spirit of political criticism and without the intention of damaging the honor and dignity of the President of the Generalitat or his party,” according to a decision by the public prosecutor's office. Navarro also said he regretted “acting without prior consultation with the party committee, as his intention was not to insult or slander anyone.”
In its decision, the public prosecutor's office points out the confrontation between two fundamental rights: freedom of expression and the right to honor, and points out that the Constitutional Court traditionally gives freedom of expression a higher priority. Furthermore, he claims that public figures “have to endure a laxer protection of their right to honor because of their own activities,” which is why he concludes that he sees no evidence of a crime.
Leaflet designed and distributed by a PP official during the last election campaign in Valencia.
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The second case in which the PP was pointed out concerns the graffiti that appeared throughout the city of Castellón, both on walls and on the billboards of the local PSOE, with the slogans “CorruPSOE” and “GolPSOE de Estado”. The socialist municipal group also turned to the public prosecutor's office with a complaint, which was expanded after the organizing secretary of the Socialists of Castellón, José Luis López, discovered a van and a man with a covered face next to one of the graffiti. According to his evidence to the public prosecutor, it was half past midnight when, at a roundabout under a bridge, he saw a person “whose face was covered with some kind of clothing” getting into the vehicle from which he was able to get out and take the license plate . During their investigation, the police tracked down the van that was rented by the current mobility councilor of the Castellón City Council, Cristian Ramírez, who was a PP candidate at the time. The public prosecutor's office is keeping the case open for now.
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The Socialists have already gone to court another time, although this time the PP did not cover up. It happened after the elections, when a video was published on their social media profiles in which they indicated, with names and photos, the Valencian deputies who voted for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “These are the deputies who voted YES for the disintegration of Spain and inequality between Spaniards,” says the video, the release of which opened a possible hate crime investigation after several deputies were attacked near Congress, were insulted and reprimanded hours before the vote, they were identified as members of the PSOE.
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