Rita Maestre feels “anger” and “disappointment” that Errejón was “victimized” without asking for forgiveness: “He has a crime”

According to the version of More Madridintegrated into Sumar, demanded explanations from Errejón on Monday, October 21, the day everything went up in the air, and later they asked Sumar to remove him from his positions and demanded his certificate as a deputy in Congress although he did not do so. missing, he resigned just three days later, on Thursday the 24th.

Errejón acknowledged the facts to two leaders from within the party that he founded. To the leader, the Minister of Health Mónica García, and to the one who was his partner for more than seven years, and who came to live with him: Rita Maestre. “They were two different conversations,” the Más Madrid spokesperson said this Sunday at the capital’s City Hall in an interview given to the ‘Salvados’ program on La Sexta. The fact that he recognized these behaviors “was a ‘shock’,” he says. It was also “that it was so fast, that there was no struggle, hesitation, that he said yes and that he also accepted that he had to go.” Although the former politician acknowledged to both Madrid leaders the veracity of such accusations “at first glance,” Maestre explains, “he did not acknowledge a specific fact; “He said ‘yes, I have had sexist attitudes like those described in that thread.'”

Throughout the entire interview, the municipal spokesperson wanted to show the “empathy” she feels towards all those “women who are telling terrifying stories about their lives”: “My empathy is there,” she said, and not with Errejón. During the first week [cuando fue grabada la entrevista]Maestre was not worried “at any time” about how the resigned politician would be. «No, not at this moment [me preocupa]. That’s the truth. The level of anger… because that’s what I feel… and disappointment… well does not allow me empathy«He confessed between sighs and puffs.

The Más Madrid spokesperson has also acknowledged that Errejón’s statement in of assume nothing and not asking for forgiveness.” The latter, Maestre pointed out, »is, by the way, something that has still not been done«. »It is a crime to include neoliberalism in a letter that could only be an assumption of responsibility and apologies,« he said, in addition to denouncing that it has turned a story of manipulation and duplicity into a »meme«. “There is, of course, a crime,” he settled the matter.

«I wish we had known this before because I do not believe that any contribution to politics is worth as much as all the parallel damage it has created and I wish I had been out of politics sooner. Spanish,” she responded when asked about Errejón’s political end amid accusations of sexual violence, taking into account that he has been one of the people who has most influenced Spanish politics in the last decade.

A two-page letter

The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the capital’s City Council already published a letter two weeks ago, an extensive two-page letter on social networks against her former partner, censuring his “misogynistic” behavior. With a heading that said “when the pain is devastating (…) may it never happen again, may no aggressor go unpunished,” Maestre began by expressing solidarity with the victims, to whom he sent his “respect” and all his “support.” ».

“Overwhelmed and shocked”claimed to have now discovered that some of “the episodes of misogynistic behavior and violence reported by the victims” happened when the aggressor was still their “partner.” He describes Sumar’s resigned spokesperson in Congress as “a normal-looking person” who “was at the same time a misogynist who returned home normally after attacking a 20-year-old woman in a hotel.” Remember that “the aggressors who usually present themselves as exceptional monstrous beings are a father, a brother, a co-worker or your ex-partner.” «Now it is not a theory nor a motto; “It’s my life,” he said.

Maestre lamented in the letter, as he did this Sunday, for not having seen the “many faces” of Errejón and assumed that he maintained a “network of attacks and humiliations of this magnitude”, from which he distances himself: “I have neither been a part nor am I aware of any cover-up of any aggression or violent action (…) Rather “I feel deeply deceived, and that deception is devastating.”