The Secretary of Organization of Podemos, Pablo Fernández, stated this Monday that when they were part of the Sumar coalition they informed the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, the Twitter thread of a young woman who accused Sumar’s former spokesperson, Íñigo Errejónin the summer of 2023, realizing that he was the person who could do something about it.
In this sense, they have avoided revealing what response they received from the Minister of Labor at that time, by emphasizing that they are not going to “elaborate” further on this issue given that the important thing now is to focus on the victims. This is how he has transferred it in press conference this mondayto add that Errejón was no longer part of Podemos and that the party never had information about complaints of sexist violence against him when he was part of the purple party, whose membership he abandoned in 2019.
Fernández has explained that, given that They were part of Sumar’s candidacy to the general elections of 23J, they were aware of that Twitter thread (now ‘X’) and that, as they believe, all the parties knew about its publication since it was something public and those comments then had three million views. The purple ones at the end of last year broke with the formation promoted by the second vice president.
«What we did was inform the person who we believed should know that Twitter thread, that information. What we did is tell it to the person who we understood could do something about it, which was Yolanda Diaz», he launched. In this way, he has deepened that they acted in this way because it was “opportune”, given that Díaz led Sumar and that he was at that time in the preparation of the electoral lists.
With this, he has alluded to the comments of a young woman in for the Madrid constituency.
Last Saturday, Sumar’s spokesperson, Ernest Urtasunremarked at a press conference that if they had known earlier about the information about Errejón that emerged this week, he would have been fired much sooner. In June, Sumar removed the candidate Aitor Abecia from his electoral list for the Senate for Álava after learning that he was going to be tried in Vitoria for a crime of sexist violence towards his ex-partner and that he was later acquitted.
For its part, Más Madrid dismissed the former deputy Loreto Arenillas for his role in the accusation against Errejón in the summer of 2023, alleging that the explanations he gave at the time did not fit the reality of the facts. While the former deputy delivered her minutes to the Madrid Assembly, she announced that she was leaving the party and assured that the Más Madrid spokesperson, Manuela Bergerot, knew about the case in 2023.
Neither information nor complaints in Podemos
In turn, the purple Secretary of Organization has assured that Podemos was not aware of any information or complaints about attitudes of harassment or sexual violence by Errejón. when he was a member of Podemos. Thus, he has reiterated that Errejón left Podemos “of his own motion” many years ago to build another political organization, in reference to Más Madrid, and that his party has had a protocol against sexual harassment since 2017 for years, given that its main The interest is that the purple formation is a “safe space for women.”
Asked if he could report what response they got from Díaz regarding this accusation against Errejón, Podemos’ number three insisted that he was not going to comment further on the matter, given that it is time to “cover” and “accompany” the victims. Especially when there is an attempt to criminalize women who have reported, as in the case of the actress, Elisa Mouliaá, the sexual violence they suffered, something “absolutely abject”, “miserable” and “totally vomiting”. “There are a lot of people who are questioning it,” he criticized.
Regarding whether they believe that the Errejón case affects only Sumar or Más Madrid or if, on the contrary, it has an impact on the entire alternative left, Fernández has responded that Podemos is not in that key and only concentrates on giving full support to the victims. In fact, he has assured that he would approach the complaint and resignation of the former deputy as a “resounding victory for feminism”which is “changing everything” and managing to break the “mantle of impunity” that until now existed among many men who were powerful, not only in politics but also in the business and media spheres, and who considered themselves “untouchable.”
“All those powerful men who until today have remained unpunished, begin to fall one by one, whoever it is, and whoever falls,” the Podemos leader concluded.
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