The co-spokespersons of More Madrid Monica Garcia, Rita Maestre and Manuela Bergerot They will appear this Monday at a press conference after the complaints filed against the former deputy Íñigo Errejón.
In addition, Sumar will meet the parliamentary group in Congress this Monday, an event that will be attended by the second vice president, Yolanda Diazand that arrives in the midst of a crisis due to the scandal.
Various sources from the coalition that forms the minority partner of the Government admit that the situation they are going through is extremely difficult and that the project, which they were facing during these months a rearmament phase Due to the poor results of this year’s electoral cycle, it is affected.
Díaz returns to Spain after finishing an official trip in Colombia during the first days of the crisis, since on Thursday Errejón presented his resignation and left politics in a week where accusations of harassment and sexual violence against him emerged, including that of actress Elisa Mouliaá.
From Sumar they have highlighted that it was the also head of Labor who spoke with Errejón since Wednesday, asking for explanations for this complaint and then urging him, after acknowledging the facts, to resign.
In this climate, the week opens with the minority partner of the Executive who on Monday will gather his deputies in a group meeting, now beheaded after the departure of Errejón although with the certainty that his vacant seat will be occupied by the leader of Más Madrid Alda Recas.
Thus, Sumar will have to designate its main representative in Congress for the third time in this legislature, given that Errejón has already replaced Martha Lois when she resigned from the position and the record of deputy to be a candidate in the last Galician elections.
On this issue, IU has already demanded that all the forces of the confluence be made a participant in this decision, given that by virtue of the coalition agreement the power to elect the spokesperson falls on ‘Movimiento Sumar’, and demanded a “catharsis” and “radical surgery” to reorganize the project, admitting that the Errejón case has opened the “left up a channel.” And he was betting on appointing a woman as the new spokesperson.
In this regard, various sources from the parliamentary group see it as necessary to elect Errejón’s replacement as soon as possible and believe that the profiles with the most options are that of the current deputy spokesperson, Aina Vidal, that already appeared in the pools for the position, or the deputy Veronica Barbero.
Controversy in Más Madrid with Loreto Arenillas
For its part, Más Madrid’s appearance will come after a statement issued on Friday night by the party making official the dismissal of the until now spokesperson for Women in the Assembly, Loreto Arenillas, after his “refusal to resign” for some explanations given in relation to an alleged case of sexual violence carried out by former Sumar spokesperson Íñigo Errejón “that do not correspond to the reality known in recent days and hours.”
The dismissal extends to all his responsibilities and positions in the party. In an eleven-point statement, Más Madrid has explained that a year ago the representative Loreto Arenillas learned of some events related to Errejón at a concert in Castellón, in which a woman accused him of touching her ass.
“On a personal note, Arenillas initiated a mediation process with the affected women trying to clarify what happened. This process was unsatisfactory for them and shortly after the accusation of aggression was made public on social networks, without at any time informing the party of the accusations or this process,” the group stated in the statement.
Loreto Arenillas leaves the party accusing the political organization of taking away her “presumption of innocence.” This was stated in a letter on social networks where she claimed to be a “victim of sexist violence, like so many women.”
The most compelling point in his response to the dismissal is the statement he makes to the current co-spokesperson for Más Madrid and leader of the opposition in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, ensuring that she had known about the Castellón case since 2023.
Arenillas, who said he was the object of “an immense campaign of lies,” pointed out that in June 2023—when the mediation was awarded to him—he put “to the knowledge of the then organization secretary”, that is, Manuela Bergerot, and the “responsible for feminisms, information that they considered not to submit to the party bodies.”
“Today I feel like a scapegoat to hide mistakes that, without a doubt, we have made in the organization. This is the worst way to fight against machismo,” he noted.
However, the management of Más Madrid stressed in its statement that the political formation “I was not aware of similar episodes that of a year ago, nor of those that have been reported in recent days about Errejón”.
Regarding the complaint of the attack in Castellón and the intervention of the deputy Loreto ArenillasMás Madrid values ”that the explanations he gave then do not correspond to the reality that has been known during the last days and hours.” “Given this circumstance we have demanded the resignation of the deputy. Given her refusal we announced the cessation of all her responsibilities and positions in the party.”
More Madrid demanded explanations from Íñigo Errejón on Monday and He asked Sumar to remove him from his positions and to deliver the deputy’s certificate, the political party reported in Friday’s statement.
Once on Monday an anonymous message was published on the Instagram account of journalist Cristina Fallarás that accused a Madrid politician of a series of abuses and that “Very quickly the networks associated with the name of Íñigo Errejón”Más Madrid acted by asking for explanations from whoever was its regional candidate in 2019 “after giving credibility to said abuses.”
In accordance with Más Madrid regulations, they have activated an investigation into what happened and, if required, they will collaborate. “totally with justice.” In view of the facts, they recognize that “it is evident that Más Madrid has not done things well.”
“From Más Madrid we also began a collective reflection on how to better confront these situations and also a review process of our protocol of harassment and the complaints mechanism to reinforce them in order to ensure that victims feel safe in our organization,” they indicated.
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