Sumar’s spokesman in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, announced this Thursday that he is leaving his seat and leaving politics. The deputy resigns from his duties a year after being named spokesman for the coalition and after having gained weight within Yolanda Díaz’s project. “I have reached the limit of contradiction between the character and the person,” he says in a letter that he published on his social networks.
The resignation occurs after several messages published on social networks, anonymously, that report behavior with women that is incompatible with the feminist ideas represented by their political formation and that have been associated with Errejón from within the coalition. That text, which does not mention him at any time, refers to a well-known politician in Madrid who is described as a psychological abuser in his relationship with women and a “true monster.”
Since its publication, pressure has begun to grow for the leader to leave his political responsibilities.
The leader does not refer to those comments, but he suggests that the reasons for his resignation have to do with this growing pressure. “I have reached the limit of the contradiction between the character and the person. Between a neoliberal way of life and being a spokesperson for a formation that defends a new, more just and humane world. The ideological struggle is also a struggle to build new ways of life and relationships that are better, more careful, more supportive and, therefore, more free. “You cannot ask people to vote differently from how they behave in their daily lives,” Errejón says in his letter to the militancy.
Sumar’s spokesman until now tries to argue that part of his behavior is related to the demands of public and political life. “I have been engaged and politically active practically since I can remember. That’s my way of being in the world. But for ten years I have held positions of public representation of very high visibility and media exposure,” he says in his letter.
“I have had the privilege of defending the ideas that I consider the most beautiful and fair, and of doing so during one of the most intense, but also hardest, decades of Spanish politics. That entails many experiences, learnings and reasons for pride. But it also generates a type of life, a daily life, a subjectivity, a type of links in the public sphere, with fame and with others that take their toll. The pace and way of life on the political front line, for a decade, has worn out my physical health, my mental health and my affective and emotional structure. I think this is something that everyone who is in this position for a long time experiences to a greater extent,” he adds.
Errejón entered Sumar as part of the coalition that united the entire left on 23J, then as a quota of Más País, the party that he had founded in 2019 and that from that moment on he was integrated into the project of the second vice president of the Government .
The political leader arrived for the first time in Congress on the Podemos lists, in 2016, when the party he helped found emerged with 91 deputies. And he stayed there until he broke with the party to launch Más Madrid. Just a few months later, he returned to the Lower House as a deputy for Más País, the force he had created in record time to try to attract those disenchanted with his former party but which only won three seats, in coalition with Verdes Equo and Compromís.
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