DANA in Valencia relegated the scandal of Iñigo Errejón. But barely two weeks have passed since everything exploded in Sumar y Más Madrid, splashing Podemos and of course the government itself. Neither Mónica García nor Yolanda Díaz did anything other than open an internal investigation, after Ione Belarra’s warning about the 2023 episode at a festival in Castellón. They ended it a few days after giving credibility to the politician’s version and not giving it more importance. Since then, the two organizations have claimed to know nothing about the behavior of Sumar’s former parliamentary spokesperson until they spoke to him after the publication of multiple testimonies from women on the social networks of journalist and activist Cristina Fallarás, who accused him of harassment. and sexual assault.
Depending on the version of More from Madridintegrated into Sumar, demanded explanations from Errejón on Monday October 21, the day everything went to hell, and later they asked Sumar to remove him from office and demanded his certificate as deputy to Congress, although ‘he didn’t do it. missing, he resigned three days later, on Thursday the 24th.
Errejón admitted the facts to two leaders of the party he founded. To the leader, the Minister of Health Mónica García, and to the woman who was his companion for more than seven years and who came to live with him: Rita Maestre. “These were two different conversations,” the spokesperson for Más Madrid said on Sunday at the capital’s City Hall, in an interview with La Sexta’s “Salvados” program. The fact that he recognized these behaviors “was a ‘shock,'” he said. It was also “that it was so quick, that there was no struggle, no hesitation, that he said yes and also accepted that he had to go.” Although the former politician admitted to the two Madrid leaders the veracity of such accusations “at first sight”, explains Maestre, “he did not recognize a concrete fact; “He said ‘yes, I had sexist attitudes like those described in this thread.'”
Throughout the interview, the municipal spokesperson wanted to show the “empathy” she feels towards all these “women who tell terrifying stories about their lives”: “My empathy is there,” she said. -she said, and not towards Errejón. During the first week [cuando fue grabada la entrevista]Maestre was “at no time” concerned about the state of the resigned politician. “No, not at the moment [me preocupa]. It’s the truth. The level of anger…because that’s what I feel…and disappointment…well don’t allow me to empathize“He confessed between sighs and puffs.
The Más Madrid spokesperson also acknowledged that Errejón’s statement dated assume nothing and not ask for forgiveness.” The latter, Maestre emphasized, “is something that has not yet been achieved.” “It is a crime to include neoliberalism in a letter that can only be “an assumption of responsibility and an apology”, he declared, in addition to denouncing that it had transformed a story of manipulation and duplicity into a “meme”. “There is of course a crime”, a- he settled.
“I wish we knew this sooner, because I don’t believe that one contribution to politics is worth as much as all the parallel damage it has created and I would have liked to leave politics sooner. Spanish”, she responded when asked about Errejón’s political end amid accusations of sexual violence, knowing that he was one of the people who most influenced politics Spanish over the last decade.
A two-page letter
The spokesperson for Más Madrid at the capital’s town hall already published a two-page long letter on social networks two weeks ago against her former partner, censoring his “misogynistic” behavior. With a title that said “when the pain is devastating (…) may it not happen again, may no aggressor go unpunished”, Maestre began by expressing his solidarity with the victims, to whom he addressed his ” respect” and all his “support.” “.
When the pain is devastating, trying to put words to it is as difficult as healing.
May this never happen again, may no attacker go unpunished. pic.twitter.com/XRWkAr8ynQ
— Rita Maestre 🌾 (@Rita_Maestre) October 27, 2024
“Overwhelmed and shocked”claims to have now discovered that some of the “episodes of misogynistic behavior and violence reported by victims” occurred while the attacker was still their “partner”. He describes Sumar’s resigned congressional spokesperson as “a seemingly normal person” who “was at the same time a misogynist who normally returned home after assaulting 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 colleague or your ex-spouse”. “Now, this is neither a theory nor a motto; “It’s my life,” he said.
Maestre deplored in the letter, like this Sunday, not having seen the “many faces” of Errejón and assumes that he maintained a “network of attacks and humiliations of this magnitude”, from which he distances himself: “I was not part of and I am not aware of any concealment of any aggression or violent action (…) Rather “I feel deeply deceived, and this deception is devastating.”
