Add did not launch any investigation when the first accusation for sexual assault against who was then his number 4 candidate for Madrid in the general elections of 23-J, Íñigo Errejón. This was confirmed this Monday afternoon at a press conference by the leader of the coalition, the vice president Yolanda Diaz.
The head of the Court of Instruction number 47 of Madrid, for his part, received hours before the complaint by actress Elisa Mouliaá against the former spokesperson and took the first step to investigate him. He asked the Congress Presidency if he was still in possession of his deputy record and received confirmation in the afternoon: he is no longer a deputy and, therefore, is not qualified before the Supreme Courtthe only one that can investigate deputies, senators, regional deputies and other senior officials. Therefore, you have free rein to open a case.
On the political level, Díaz explained from the Lower House that he was satisfied when Más Madrid closed its investigation having only asked Errejón about the events of last year. And he apologized to the victims, because, although he assured that his party has acted “promptly,” it also assumed that “he has arrived late”. The vice president appeared after a long and complicated meeting of the Sumar parliamentary group in which the atmosphere was “of mourning” and “of a funeral,” as defined by coalition sources.
It was Díaz’s first media appearance in Spain since Errejón’s abrupt resignation, and the vice president stated that “the only way to compensate” for the damage caused “is by living up to it and improving detection mechanisms.” , prevention and support” for the victims. “I I was made aware of this complaint by my team.I spoke with Can and I also spoke with More Madrid“, he added about the 2023 case. Then, a woman accused Errejón of having touched her ass in the middle of a concert in Castellón and revealed that a Más Madrid deputy, Loreto Arenillas, asked her not to make a “mockery” by publishing the information.
“Later, Más Madrid informed my team that they had closed that investigation, and my team subsequently informed me that this woman had removed her tweet,” concluded the vice president, who pointed out that, then, Sumar considered the matter settled. “If I had known something like what I learned on Tuesday night, I would have acted the same way that I have acted now: immediate departure from public life and delivery of the deputy’s certificate,” said Díaz.
The vice president also pointed out that the only thing she knew about Errejón’s “personal problems” was that I was receiving “therapy” and that “this year was going better.” This information was revealed by the former spokesperson himself in his farewell letterof which Díaz assured not to share its content “at all.” Also, that Errejón acknowledged having had “sexist and humiliating attitudes towards women.”
The group does not yet have another spokesperson
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Sumar’s parliamentary group faces a new plenary session of Congress this Tuesday, but without a spokesperson after Errejón’s departure, since the meeting that Yolanda Díaz held this Monday with her deputies did not address this issue. Thus, the Board of Speakers of the Chamber will meet, the body in which Sumar was represented by the former politician and deputy spokespersons. The latter will go, and deputy Txema Guijarro will attend as a substitute for Errejón, according to party sources. Until now, the parliamentarians who have been most talked about for the position are Verónica Martínez and Aina Vidal.
The vice president also recognized that the scandal has caused damage to Sumar, and assured that the way to regain lost trust It is “to work humbly and tirelessly to build a new political and personal culture that restores the bond that has been broken these days.” Díaz acknowledged that his deputies are “desolate”, that Spanish society is “in shock” and that the victims are “suffering,” but he noted that his group is “rise to the occasion.”
In the morning, who The three top representatives of Más Madrid gave explanations: their leader, Monica Garciaand the spokespersons in the City Council and the Assembly of Madrid, Rita Maestre and Manuela Bergerot, respectively. They assumed that their formation did not do “enough” regarding the 2023 indictment, but they ruled out more resignations.
García insisted several times that “no one knew about the terrible accusations of assault, abuse and sexual violence” that affect Errejón, and that the only thing they knew within Más Madrid was that the spokesperson “had personal problems of another nature” for which he was recommended to receive “professional help”. “If we had known he was an aggressor we would have gone directly to a police station,” he said.
The Minister of Health also said that the party leadership only learned of Castellón’s accusation through social networks when it was published, and stated that the information they had was what was collected in that X thread; stressed that Arenillas acted “with his back turned” to the direction of Más Madrid. García said that they asked him for “explanations”, as well as Errejón, and that both “minimized” what happened. “From what we see now, those explanations were ambiguous and insufficient, and we accept the error.”
“Then the thread was deleted and was not investigated further, and it was not interpreted by us as an alarm of a pattern of behavior by Errejón,” García added. “It was a mistake because we were unaware of the magnitude of the cases” that have appeared these days, and “if we had known, perhaps we could have done something sooner,” the minister admitted. Just after the press conference ended, former representative Arenillas published a statement on her X account in which, as she did last Friday, accused the management of Más Madrid of lying.
Finally, Podemos, a party of which Errejón was a part until 2019, also wanted to offer its version and stated that its ranks once informed Díaz of last year’s complaint. It was explained by the Secretary of Organization of the purple ones, Pablo Fernández, who avoided specifying what response they obtained. In any case, they wanted to make it clear that they never had information about complaints of sexist violence against Errejón when he was a member of their group.
“What we did is communicate it to the person who we understood could do something about it, which was Yolanda Díaz,” he said, to insist that they acted in this way. because it was “opportune”, given that Díaz led Sumar, which at that time was preparing the lists for the July general elections. The number three of Podemos did not want to give more details and said that it is time to “support” and “accompany” the victims.
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