The second vice-president of the government and leader of Sumar in the government, Yolanda Díaz, assures that it was she who asked Íñigo Errejón for the deputy’s certificate and who dismissed him “from all his organic activities”, despite the fact that she does not have a position within the party.
As confirmed this Monday, Díaz was aware of the first accusations against his parliamentary spokesperson in 2023, but he did not intervene assuming that the investigation would be carried out by More from Madridparty to which the deputy then belonged. She was warned, as she herself confirmed, by the secretary general of Podemos, Ione Belarra.
In his first words five days later If the news is known, the vice-president specified that the anonymous accusations against her former parliamentary spokesperson were communicated to her “at the end of the day” on Tuesday, a day before embarking on a trip to Colombia which lasted until ‘until Saturday. On Wednesday, he called Errejón.
“This was one of the most difficult conversations of my life,” said the vice-president after the parliamentary group meeting on Monday, which lasted nearly two and a half hours. The meeting, according to the sources present, was rather “diagnostic and share opinions on the crisis” than making decisions for the future. One of them would be the succession of Errejón as parliamentary spokesperson.
According to Díaz, Errejón “recognized sexist and humiliating attitudes towards women” and, from that moment on, the mechanisms were immediate. Still according to the vice-president’s account, the party it took two days (since Tuesday evening) by expelling its spokesperson since “the allegations became known”, while the message that started it all was visible to everyone since Monday.
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Sumar’s leader in government also sent “a message of support to all women who tell their stories.” “Feminism and women have changed this country for the better,” she said, “and there will be no impunity, whatever you call it: he who falls falls“, he reiterated.
“We have not even opened an administrative file,” underlined the vice-president, who also dissociates herself from the resignation declaration that Errejón published “unilaterally” on her social networks. “We acted quickly and forcefully,” he said, “but we arrived late and I apologize for that.”
Errejón resigned from all his positions last Thursday after being accused by several women of “psychological violence” and “sexist assault.” To these complaints were added, the same evening, another, already public and before the court, from the actress Elisa Mouliaá.
Sumar sources also allude to the fact that the first accusations were made known on Monday October 19 of the same year, that is to say the same day of the publication of the electoral lists in Elections of 23D. The sources consulted these days claim to have activated “all mechanisms” to verify whether these anonymous complaints were founded, without reaching a conclusion.
Podemos was one of the coalition parties that “informed” Sumar of the accusations against Errejón, although at the time these accusations were nothing more than a Twitter feed visible to all. Díaz criticized the group, without explicitly naming it, for “trying to gain political gain” from its spokesperson’s situation.
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