First the silence, then the distribution of blame. Five days of circumspection in Colombia and, after landing in Madrid, Yolanda Díaz finally appeared before the media to talk about the Errejón scandal due to complaints of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. It was not just any joke, but a torpedo in the waterline of the left in general and, in particular, of the space led by the second vice-president of the government. She was the one who made the electoral lists. And it was she who, unilaterally, appointed him parliamentary spokesperson.
In any crisis management, time management is considered essential. The period between when the scandal breaks, when the problem is recognized and when decisions are made is essential to good political communication. And Yolanda Díaz says she is satisfied because she acted with “promptness”, “transparency” and “force” to expel Errejón from public life as soon as she was informed of the events known last week, after the anonymous complaint disseminated by the journalist Cristina Fallarás on her Instagram account about a sexual assault to which she gave neither name nor first name, but which triggered a cascade of comments on X targeting her deputy.
