Sumar’s former spokesperson Iñigo Errejónwho resigned at the end of October after being denounced for alleged sexual assault, will be entitled to a compensation of termination for his almost eight years as a member of Congress, which he will receive monthly up to a total of 25,000 eurosaccording to calculations made by the Chamber’s legal services.
The compensation, which will be this Tuesday approved by the Congress Councilis envisaged in the economic and social protection regime for parliamentarians, which also specifies that the benefit is divided into monthly payments and that it is incompatible with any other remuneration, informs EP.
Concretely, the amount of this compensation is equivalent to “a monthly payment of the constitutional endowment for each year of parliamentary mandate in the General Cortes or fraction exceeding six months, and within the maximum limit of twenty-four monthly payments”.
In Errejón’s case, his career as a congressional deputy spans four terms and covers a total duration of seven years and nine months. He was therefore awarded eight months of compensation.
Three stages and three different matches
He was elected deputy for the first time in the elections of December 2015then as leader of Canand although it was a short term, he held his seat for six months because he was a member of the Permanent Deputation. In the 2016 Election Repeat He was again elected deputy and remained in the House for two and a half years, until January 2019 He abandoned national politics to run for the Madrid Assembly.
He returned to Congress in December of the same year, this time at the top of the list of More countriesand spent three and a half years as a member of the Plural Group with Compromís and Junts. And in the general elections of July 2023 won a seat again, this time as representative Addand served for fifteen months until his resignation last week.
Taking into account that the constitutional allowance this year is set at 3,142.14 euros, the total compensation that Errejón will receive for these almost eight years as deputy will be 25,137.12 euros, according to sources. parliamentarians at Europa Press.
Of course, Congress will stop paying the compensation if Errejón receives “other remuneration, salaries, wages, pensions, allowances, compensations or collections of any nature, whether of a public or private nature”, because he is incompatible.
