“We have monsters on our side”

“Touched and affected.” This is how he recognizes feelings andThe general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, regarding the “devastating” situation created by the accusations of sexual violence against Iñigo Errejón, whom he described as “monster”.

Nearly five days after Sumar’s former congressional spokesperson resigned, Otegi admits “It is difficult to think that these cases cannot be detected in time” within parties.

He further states that he is “really affected” and “touched” by all the information about the sexual abuse and mistreatment committed by Errejón because he knows him personally, but also some of his partners.

In an interview with Radio Popular de Bilbao, Otegi showed that this whole situation affects the necessary exemplarity in politics, “mainly on the left”, at the same time that it “certifies” the message of the feminist movement according to which “We don’t need to look for monsters, we have them on our side.”

“What happens to make this kind of thing happen? There’s the sexist culture and there are many other factors that have also arisen in this scenario,” said Otegi, who cautioned that in this case and “many cases like this” there is a perception that “there is a pattern” this must be “neutralized”, something in which men have “a particular and very serious responsibility”.

As he indicated, “a left which seeks to propose alternative models of society, which seeks a society of free and equal men and women, etc., in the face of cases like this, what it does is collapse some spaces which, from our point of view, are essential for developing other types of policies.

So he urged improve alarm systems in these cases and react “without any authorization” so that “these cases cannot occur and, if they do occur, that they are interrupted in time.”

In this sense, he assured that his training had “protocols from the start” in the matter, with “an alarm system” which was put in place “on several occasions”, and was “exemplary” when it was put in place. been necessary.

Budgets

About the General state budgets and its negotiations between the government and the parties that support it, Arnaldo Otegi deemed Podemos’ request to condition its support on the severance of relations between Spain and Israel “disproportionate”.

“Playing on partisan interests on this issue is a bad calculation because instability does not favor anyone,” he declared, adding that EH Bildu, in its negotiation, “will insist on social policies”, among which it included make the tax on energy companies permanentwhat Junts and PNV reject, also necessary to approve public accounts.

In any case, he indicated that EH Bildu, and he considers that neither the PNV, are “interested in the Government falling now” and “experiencing difficulties”, which, he clarified, does not mean not that they aren’t “demanding.” .

He also predicted that despite the difficulties encountered in approving the 2025 budgets, “neither believes nor wants” that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will call electionsalthough its training “wouldn’t do any harm” and could increase its representation, because “the good to preserve is to stop the far right.”