The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Madrid City Council, Rita Maestre, assures “one hundred percent” that neither she nor the leaders of Más Madrid, “from the political space of Sumar or the progressive coalition” knew that Íñigo Errejón was “a “misogynist, a predator, a pathological manipulator.” It is one of the statements that Maestre makes in the interview, the first that politics has granted since the resignation of Errejón, which this Sunday broadcasts the program ‘Salvados’ on La Sexta. Next Tuesday, Errejón will testify as a defendant in the sexual assault complaint filed by actress and presenter Elisa Mouliaá, who will also testify on the same day. Mouliaá’s lawyer also coordinates the complaint of more women against the former deputy.
Rita Maestre is forceful and emphasizes that electoral returns were never ahead of principles. “I can one hundred percent assure that neither I nor the people for whom I can speak, who are Manuela [Carmena]Monica [García]the leaders of Más Madrid, the militants… I am sure that no person from the political space of Sumar, from the progressive coalition, from the people who have had a professional or personal relationship, long or short, with Íñigo Errejón knew that “He was a misogynist, a predator, a pathological manipulator, like what we have known,” he says. The politician, who was Errejón’s partner and who has already made public a statement in which he denied having been aware of his former partner’s behavior, he insists in the interview: “How was I going to cover up as politics what I didn’t know as a couple.”
The Más Madrid spokesperson reports that, after the publication of a woman’s testimony on the Instagram profile of the journalist Cristina Fallarás and the identification that many people made of Íñigo Errejón as the protagonist of those events, both Mónica García, Minister of Health, like herself, they had conversations with the former deputy to ask for explanations. He, she continues, admitted what happened “right away” and “without hesitation”, something that left her “in shock”: “He did not recognize a specific fact, he did have sexist attitudes like those described.” This recognition was accompanied by him “accepting” that he had to leave.
The way in which he said goodbye, however, is harshly criticized by Maestre, who considers that the statement that Errejón made public is “offensive.” In that text, Sumar’s former leader in Congress stated that on the political and media front line “we survive and are more effective with a way of behaving that is often emancipated from care, empathy and the needs of others.” the others”, something that generates “a toxic subjectivity that in the case of men, patriarchy multiplies, with co-workers, with organizational colleagues, with emotional relationships and even with oneself.” His letter, which was widely criticized for its euphemisms, did not contain any type of apology.
“It is an insult to our intelligence, to that of all the people who have to read it. The indecent mix of victimhood, throwing balls out, not assuming anything and not asking for forgiveness, which is something that he still hasn’t done, is offensive to me. It is a crime to include neoliberalism in a letter that could only be about assuming responsibilities and apologizing,” Rita Maestre now answers. Errejón alluded to neoliberalism when he said he had reached the limit “of the contradiction between the character and the person.” “Between a neoliberal way of life and being a spokesperson for a group that defends a new, more just and humane world,” he said. That phrase, Maestre points out, has turned “a story of manipulation and duplicity” into a meme.
One of the most controversial points has been the actions of Más Madrid and Sumar after learning, in the summer of 2023, that a music festival in Castellón had expelled Íñigo Errejón after he touched a woman’s ass, which he said the event in a Twitter thread that eventually disappeared. The leader of Más Madrid and Minister of Health, Mónica García, assured in a press conference that no one in the party was aware of the “very serious episodes” that have been published but the party admitted the mistake of not having gone “further.” in his investigation into what happened in Castellón. “In view of the events, it is a mistake that at the time we did not feel we were making, it was a mistake not to have gone further,” Maestre also insists now.
“I wish we had known this before and I wish I had been out of Spanish politics sooner, no contribution to politics is worth as much as all the parallel damage it has created,” adds the Más Madrid spokesperson at the capital’s City Hall, responding like this to those who have regretted this end for one of the most prominent politicians of the last decade. Rita Maestre says that her level of “anger and disappointment” does not now allow her empathy with Íñigo Errejón: “My empathy right now is with the women who are telling terrifying things about their lives.”
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