The address of Sumar Plurinational Parliamentary Group chose this Wednesday to Veronica Martínez Barberodeputy for Pontevedra, as new spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies after the resignation of Íñigo Errejón on October 25 after being accused of sexual assault. The formation also indicated that the Group and its functioning would be restructured.
Likewise, he indicated that the decision was made “unanimously” between all the forces that make up Sumar, as part of a process that involves “the restructuring of responsibilities within it”, after the latest changes in its composition.
In this sense, the constitution was agreed “with a working method and timetable of a coordination space in which all forces participate on an equal footing.” “It is a consensus that strengthens the work within the parliamentary group and the dialogue between political forces,” they explain, announcing that Verónica M. Barbero He will take office from November 14.
Martínez Barbero was quick to react to his appointment: “Following the unanimous and horizontal agreement of the forces of our parliamentary group, I assume with conviction Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress.” “It is time to defend a feminist project, multinational and committed to the rights of the working class,” he said in a tweet.
Verónica Martínez Barbero has a career linked “to the defense of the rights of workers”both in the professional and political world. Born in Xixón, but Galician by adoption, Martínez Barbero has been a labor and social security inspector in the province of Pontevedra since 2006.
Before sitting in this same province, he was Director General of Labor at the Ministry led by Yolanda Díaz, and “was one of the architects of such notable measures” as ERTE during the pandemic and labor reform. In Congress, she is Sumar’s spokesperson on the Labor Commission and chair of the Social Rights Commission. Since the latter, he has promoted legislation “as important” as the recently approved ELA law, they add from Sumar.
