This Monday’s meeting of the executive of Add united in the face of the open crisis in the party due to complaints of sexual violence perpetrated by Iñigo Errejón experienced what can be interpreted as a revolt of several deputies of the formations which make up the coalition which led Yolande Diaz.
During this meeting, several Sumar deputies asked the second vice-president – and former secretary general of Sumar – Yolanda Díaz, for a reconfiguration of the plurinational group so that there is “more horizontal decision-making between all parties » after the crisis opened by the departure of the former spokesperson Íñigo Errejón before his sexual behavior with women.
During the meeting, several deputies informed Yolanda Díaz that the need to establish a more democratic mechanism is more urgent than the designation of the new parliamentary spokesperson to replace Errejón. In other words, the method is now more important than the people, reports Ep..
They demand changes and that more weight be given to all parties in decision-making, given that the coalition agreement stipulates, for example, that it is up to Sumar to elect the main spokesperson in Congress , which they occupied first in this legislature. Martha Lois and then Inigo Errejon.
This Monday the issue was not addressed and some sectors of the parliamentary group hope that there will be an agreement consensus between forcessince they agree that this position should be occupied by a woman. So far, the most talked about parliamentarians for this position are Verónica Martínez and Aina Vidal.
Yolanda Díaz and the electoral cost of the “Errejón case”
Yolanda Díaz, as she expressed it in a press conference, said she was ready to reverse the trend. Errejon crisisthat This affected the credibility of left-wing bases and trust between organizations. Díaz and the deputies are aware that Errejon affair has electoral and political costs that they must assume, but they believe that the time has come to create “cohesion”, to start working on strengthening the alternative left and to leave the “primus inter pares”, it i.e. one of the branches (referring to Sumar as a party) is larger than among its peers.
Precisely, several interventions followed this line, affirming in a critical tone that Sumar is a newly created training and with a small territorial establishment which cannot claim to impose decisions or control space without collective decisions with its allies, reports Ep..
It is also a slogan according to which women must gain more importance, especially to reconnect with the feminist sectors that have criticized Sumar these days, following the management of the Errejón case. And there are those who did not consider it appropriate that on Saturday the spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, took up most of the press conference to give explanations about the complaints against Errejón.
The Errejón scandal
Already during the press conference, Yolanda Díaz gave two contradictory versions of her knowledge of the sexual violence from Iñigo Errejón. The Sumar leader and vice-president presented herself to the Congress of Deputies this Monday after holding a long meeting with her parliamentarians, four days after the scandal broke. Díaz assured, initially, that he was aware of these violent attitudes by Errejón himself, last Wednesday. However, when questioned by journalists, he later admitted that We can already inform you he last year of a sexual assault committed by the politician during a music festival in Castellón.
Despite the controversy, Díaz made an official trip to Colombia in recent days. “The only way to make up for this it’s much better and improve detection, prevention and support mechanisms,” he simply declared.
The vice president said that last Tuesday she became aware of Errejón’s “sexist” behavior following several complaints on social media. On Wednesday, he spoke with his former spokesperson, who admitted the facts, and demanded his deputy status and the cessation of his responsibilities.
