More Madrid fired Loreto Arenillas this Mondaythe former chief of staff of Sumar’s former congressional spokesperson Iñigo Errejónas party spokesperson in the Assembly Women’s Commission, according to the newspaper The country and I confirmed Europe Press sources of training.
Arenillas said he would resign from his mandate in the Assembly after accused of covering up sexual abuse allegations from Sumar’s former spokesperson, but ultimately Más Madrid announced the end of his organic functions due to his refusal to resign.
Almost two weeks later, The deputy has still not submitted the report. The party has repeatedly said that it does not consider “any other possibility” other than the submission of the report, although it has also defended that “there is no need for urgency” with the MP process again.
“It is not me who must give a deadline to Loreto Arenillas. It is she who published a statement saying that she was going to submit the report,” the spokesperson for Más Madrid recently insisted at Assembly, Manuela Bergerot.
That same Monday, in statements after the Meeting of Spokespersons, the leader of Más Madrid confirmed that Arenillas had not submitted the minutes, although she was convinced that this resignation would come. “It is true that this representative has not been politically active for weeks and I believe that we are in the ordinary process of her resignation and that “Notification will reach us in the coming days.”Bergerot explained.
Arenillas denounced the “abuse of power” on the part of the Executive of the party, assuring that they had not followed the ordinary path and requesting the protection of the Committee of Guarantees and defending that they had reported the case to the spokesperson in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, who was then in charge of the Secretariat of the Organization.
Bergerot denied considering resigning after being identified by Arenillas as a person with knowledge of the Errejón episode at a concert in Castellón. “We, spokespersons for Más Madrid, have forcefully expelled anyone who practices gender-based violence within our spaces. We did not hesitate to make the decisions that needed to be made. And that is what we have done and that’s how we communicated it externally.” , he said.
Regardless, Arenillas announced that she would not become a non-registered deputy, which would result in Más Madrid losing a deputy and the opposition leadership would return to the PSOE.
Today, Más Madrid removed Arenillas from her position as spokesperson for the Women’s Commission in the Assembly, where she was belligerent on issues such as sexual violence.
She will be replaced by the deputy Mariana ArcéDoctor in Chemical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and vice-president member of the Digitalization Commission and member of the Budget and Finance Commission and the Health Commission.
“It is a change that is part of the normality of the process, since Loreto announced that he would leave the minutes,” he stressed. Europe Press a spokesperson for the training.
