The PSOE is concerned after the departure of Errejón and says that it takes the side of the victims of sexist violence

Ferraz does not hide his concern after the departure of Íñigo Errejón of Add after anonymous complaints were made public in which they accused him of mistreatment, something for which his own training has already been investigated for days. PSOE sources assure that the party “he will always be with the victims of sexist violence” and they advocate for a “feminist policy that acts harshly against those who exercise this type of violence.”

This is how the PSOE, Sumar’s coalition partner, reacts, the party in which Errejón was parliamentary spokesperson. Precisely, the formation of Yolanda Diaz He has assured that he has been investigating Errejón for days due to the anonymous complaints that had been spread on social networks. In a statement, the party affirms that it was this Thursday morning that its spokesperson has submitted his resignation to the executive and the training management has accepted it “unanimously”.

“Following the information that appeared this week, at Sumar we began a process to gather information about the statements that had been made, mainly on social networks, about Iñigo Errejón,” Sumar explained in a brief statement published a few minutes after the leader made public his resignation letter. The party does not explain what the result of that investigation was.and simply points out that “this Thursday morning, Íñigo Errejón sent his letter to the Sumar executive and said body, “after having listened to the reasons given” by its spokesperson, “has unanimously accepted his resignation “.

Although Errejón has not explicitly referred to any episode of sexual violence in his resignation letter, the resignation comes after complaints were made public on social networks by journalist Cristina Fallarás, who published an anonymous message in which a woman reported having been a victim of a “psychological abuser”. Said message assured that this political leader—whom it did not expressly name— “he creates numbers” when the women with whom he has sexual relations refuse to carry out “humiliating practices”.

“When he sees that he has achieved something, the rudeness begins and the gaslighting. In the afternoon he shows you affection and even makes relationship proposals, and two hours later he throws you out of his house. If you do something he doesn’t like, punishes you with silence and indifferenceso that you learn to respect God, which is what you believe he is,” reported this anonymous complaint. The message also stated that “his way of having sex marks you and you will never forget it. It is a way of exercising power, it is not sex. As if he were masturbating with your body. “He asks you to do humiliating practices and, when you refuse, he makes a big deal out of you.”