Íñigo Errejón He has announced the resignation of all his positions in Sumar – a group for which he was spokesperson in Congress –, the resignation of his deputy seat and that he is leaving politics. He communicated his decision on the social network X, cornered humanly and politically by a series of complaints from women who claim to have suffered mistreatment and sexist harassment on his part. Immediately afterwards, Sumar announced the opening of an internal investigation, although sources from that group indicated that the resolution had been taken on Wednesday afternoon when there was a flood of comments on social networks.
At the close of this edition, there was no formal complaint on this matter against Errejón before the Court. It is true that political activity requires higher levels of exemplarity than for ordinary citizens, but that does not mean that social networks can become the new popular courts and simple rumor become evidence of the accusation. However, after his decision, testimonies from women have begun to emerge indicating that the complaints and accusations against Errejón’s behavior go back a long way. It is, therefore, very significant that the leaders of the new radical left, whose haste in denouncing these behaviors is legendary and has led some of them, such as former minister Irene Montero, to respond to justice for their excesses. verbal, have been silent for so long without denouncing them as they do now.
But it was the twisted statement released by one of the four founders of Podemos in 2014 that has given more credibility to the complaints. Errejón says in a remarkable exercise of victimization that “the pace and way of life on the political front line for a decade” have worn out his physical and mental health and his “affective and emotional structure.” declare that their possible behaviors They have been the result of “a toxic subjectivity that in the case of men, patriarchy multiplies” and that has taken him “to the limit of the contradiction between the character and the person.” Sumar’s spokesperson declares himself trapped between “a neoliberal way of life” and his aspirations to achieve “a new, fairer and more humane world.”
However, it will never be possible to determine if his departure from politics is due to sincere regret, the political siege to which he is now subjected or if it is a mere pact of convenience to safeguard his political formation, as long as the complaints do not arrive responsibly. before the judicial authorities, which is where the legal truth is established. This step is essential since such an important decision by a political leader cannot be the result of a mere settling of accounts on social networks, even more so by invoking issues that our society values as highly as the rejection of sexist violence and to harassment.
With Errejón he disappears from the political front line the last of the founders of Podemos who survived and was active. His departure once again puts on the table the frustrating drift of a movement that has awakened the enthusiasm of millions of Spaniards since 2014. A populist left-wing movement that history will end up judging more as opportunistic left-wing and that has left appreciable damage by having contaminated to the social democracy of the PSOE with tribalist feminism and a panoply of economic proposals of demonstrated incompetence.
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