“My confidence in both of them is total. Total and unequivocal commitment and unfailing support. With these words, Pedro Sánchez supported his second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Health, Mónica García, after both admitted this Monday to having minimized the first complaint on the networks almost a year ago year and a half of a young woman who accused Íñigo Errejón of sexual assault, having accepted the explanations of the former spokesperson, who denied the facts.
The president of the governmentwho is used to speaking abroad on issues of national importance, assured from India that his confidence in the members of the other branch of the coalition government is total and that his commitment to the feminist movement is as firm as before the Errejón. The scandal hits the Executive. “I believe that Sumar and the political parties that make it up have acted forcefully since they became aware of this matter and the seriousness of these accusations. I can describe Sumar’s response as forceful.
Sánchez disdained that Sumar’s internal affairs could destabilize the coalition government and recalled that it “will continue to govern.” until 2027 and then the left will reappear” and “win again, to continue to govern”.
A strategy which already began to take shape during the press conference which followed the meeting of the Council of Ministers during whichand government spokesperson, Pilar Alegríaclearly expressed the position of the socialist part of the Executive which wants to eliminate as quickly as possible all the consequences that the scandal around Íñigo Errejón could have on his party, Sumar, and therefore on the government coalition, at a moment of particular instability. parliamentarian for Pedro Sánchez and in the middle of negotiating the general budgets of the State.
“In the last 48 hours we have seen how this person’s deputy file was deleted, he was stripped of all political and organizational responsibilities and diligent, rapid and forceful action was taken by Sumar,” Alegría affirmed despite the fact that Podemos or a former representative of Más Madrid assured to have informed the formation of Yolanda Díaz of certain behaviors of Errejón. The spokesperson for the Executive insisted on the government’s “feminist commitment” and accepted the explanations given in recent days by ministers Yolanda Díaz and Mónica García.
That said, Alegría distanced any connection between this affair and the government’s strength –“it doesn’t affect anything»– and marked the point of view on the remaining two and a half years of the legislature and on the approval of the next general budgets, which the Government is already preparing and trying to obtain the support of its investiture partners.
