The elected senator for Lanzarote, José Ramón Galindo, was arrested in 2008 in connection with a possible drug case, but "the judge did not see anything punishable there, so it didn't go any further." This is what the general secretary of Podemos on the island, Carlos Meca, has said, who has responded to the accusations this Wednesday, after the rumor began circulating on social networks that the elected senator for Lanzarote had been arrested seven years ago for drug trafficking.
Following these reports, the party already sent a statement this Tuesday assuring that it would convene a press conference to give the relevant explanations and report on the possible "measures" taken in this regard. The call for this public appearance has not yet taken place and the party emphasized this Tuesday that they were waiting to have everything "in black and white" and that they would be "transparent." Meanwhile, Meca has come out to give the first explanations, emphasizing that Podemos will clarify "definitively" what happened, "providing all the necessary evidence for it."
Although he has not specified the circumstances of that arrest, the general secretary of the party in Lanzarote wanted to make it clear that Galindo "had no problem." "They dedicated themselves to rescuing a news item from 7 years ago, also a news item whose headline was completely wrong and was based on an initial arrest, which is true that it occurred. But obviously everything that happened after that arrest was not told," he said, referring to the press release sent then by the Local Police of Tías.
What happened after that first arrest by the Local Police, according to Meca, is that "there was not even a trial on this issue, but the judge directly dismissed the case without it being held, because he found no reason to do so." The also councilor of the Cabildo has also assured that Galindo is "very calm because as we will say in that statement (which he has stated will be sent to the press this Wednesday), there was nothing to regret."
A news item "to cause harm"
This information about José Ramón Galindo began to spread through social networks just one day after Podemos' victory on the island, both in votes for the Senate and the Congress. For this reason, Carlos Meca has pointed out that, for the party, "it is a product of the very good results that Podemos has obtained on the island." "It must be that some did not like Podemos' victory on the island on Sunday too much."
"They have tried to make a mountain out of all this, obviously to cause harm," said the general secretary of the formation in Lanzarote, who has stressed that "it is something that we have already seen" and that "it happened with our colleague in the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Juan Manuel Brito, shortly before the elections." "They are the classic movements to try to cause harm," he added.
Carlos Meca has also indicated that throughout that Wednesday the party will send a statement to clarify "definitively" what happened with "all the evidence" for it. According to what he has indicated, a press conference could also be convened in which, in principle, Galindo will not be present. The new elected senator, he has stressed, is "calm, to the extent that from the first moment he knew perfectly well what had happened," although "regretting the organized commotion."
