Overview
- Mar Costa filed a workplace-harassment complaint on December 25 through the PSOE’s online channel and messaged Pedro Sánchez directly on Instagram the same day.
- José Luis Quintana, a close ally of Sánchez and the Government’s delegate in Extremadura, had been named on Christmas Eve to lead the regional Comisión Gestora after Miguel Ángel Gallardo’s resignation.
- ABC cites documents alleging a sudden surge of PSOE members in Don Benito in May–June 2024 and out-of-time registrations that critics say could have influenced primaries.
- Quintana and the regional gestora deny the harassment claims, and Quintana has threatened legal action against those spreading what he calls falsehoods.
- Sources in the new regional leadership describe internal shock over the case and express concern that additional complaints could surface, with no independent or judicial resolution reported so far.