Pimentel, the surprise dad

The PP leader in Catalonia, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, swore actively and passively that her 7-year-old son Manuel was the result of artificial insemination. Insemination yes, but artificial rather no. Or at least this is what it seems. The father of the child is the one who was short-lived Minister of Labor (only thirteen months) with José María Aznar the impenetrable, and today an editor pampered by the Junta de Andalucía, Manuel Pimentel.

They met at the Ministry (he, minister; she, general director of the National Institute for Workplace Safety). Pimentel was married and had a daughter, which was no problem for them to start a relationship that ended in pregnancy in 2005. So between the version of artificial insemination and that of extramarital relations, Alicia, such a defender of the traditional family, He stayed with the first one, which undoubtedly aroused much less media noise.

The matter has its morbidity, and that is why social networks became so active, with comments of all kinds. Neither Sánchez-Camacho nor Pimentel have made any statements in this regard. They did well.

It seems that Pimentel maintained daily contact with mother and son throughout all these years and that the relationships between both parents are affectionate and fluid. Now, father and mother decide to put their cards on the table and regularize the situation, even though they have separate lives and rather different destinies. Pimentel, away from politics and doing business in the world of culture, and Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, trying to float in this sea of calamities that is Catalan politics. Between the nationalist tidal wave, the PP's inability to climb electoral positions and the murky matter of espionage with the Method 3 agency, there is something to worry about.

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The exclusive was given by a national newspaper, and sources close to the journalists who uncovered it assure that the news had the approval of at least one of the parties.

Alicia Sánchez-Camacho and Manuel Pimentel are currently divorced from their respective partners. The leader of the popular Catalans had undergone fertility treatment for years in one of the most renowned centers in Spain, in Barcelona.

Sánchez-Camacho has repeatedly spoken out against gay marriage and the adoption of children by same-sex couples.