Sumar begins to recover from the abrupt departure of Íñigo Errejón, accused of sexual assault. The one chosen to wear The spokesperson for the Plurinational Parliamentary Group is Verónica Martínez Barbero.one of the names that was mentioned from the first moment for replacement and that was unanimously chosen to be the visible face of the party.
The Group made it clear that it would not be in a hurry to choose a spokesperson because there was a lot of tension within it. Izquierda Unida, a group that is very critical of the leadership, wanted to delay this decision because it believes that it was time to restructure the internal functioning of the coalition. So this group bet calms training and balances weightsbut that won’t be the only change.
It still remains to change the members of the committees and to restructure the functioning of the parliamentary group, as requested by the IU, which is currently being developed. Even this training advocated changing the name of the coalition so that it stops being confused with the name of Sumar as a party.
As for Martínez Barbero, and although her name was mentioned from the beginning, as she says, laSexta these days, at first she was reluctant to accept the position, but she ended up accepting because she was there consensus candidate. Now that she is president of a social rights commission, with her appointment, it will be necessary to look for other candidates for this position.
His career is linked to the defense of workers’ rights, both in his professional and political fields. Born in Gijón, but Galician by adoption, Martínez Barbero has been a labor and social security inspector in the province of Pontevedra since 2006.
Before serving in this same province, she was Director General of Labor in the ministry led by Yolanda Díaz and was one of the architects of measures such as ERTE during the pandemic and labor reform.
In Congress, she is Sumar’s spokesperson on the Labor Commission and chair of the Social Rights Commission. Since then, he has promoted such important legislation as the recently approved ALS law. Additionally, Congress promotes reduced work hours and scholarship status.
He also chaired the Galician Labor Relations Board, between 2017 and 2020, was a professor at the School of Labor Relations of La Coruña and directed the Galician Review of Social Law.
