In his first declaration at the official headquarters on Errejon affairafter a week without assuming the main role in crisis management, Yolanda Diaz He limited himself to boasting of the “force and speed” with which he “vehemently” fired Sumar’s former spokesperson.
In the same line as the rest of the positions in his training, The vice president considers that it is enough to apologize for having welcomed into its ranks a suspected sex offender and for having committed to “improving detection, prevention and support mechanisms”.
It should be remembered at this point that Iñigo Errejón He is innocent until proven guilty. Today, apart from a handful of anonymous testimonies on social networks, accusations of sexist violence have only been supported by an explicit complaint, the facts of which will be returned to a judge to determine whether they constitute a crime.
But it is also true that Errejón admitted in his farewell last Thursday that he had left a trail of misogynistic behavior that deserves moral reproach.. Added to the fact that these behaviors represent blatant duplicity in relation to his ideology and political activism, the avalanche of public recriminations is justified.
And even if it is not legal to make him the subject of any lynching, it is undeniable that what, for other groups, could constitute a simple lack of exemplarity, according to the ideological standards of Sumar, is much more serious.
This is why we do not understand that, out of coherence, the party resists the purging of responsibilities.. On the contrary, Yolanda Díaz got rid of them and delegated them to Más Madrid, claiming that it was this party that was responsible for carrying out the investigation.
But at the same time, Monique Garcia categorically denied this Monday that Más Madrid was aware of the “accusations of mistreatment and sexual violence” against Errejón, while regretting having “minimized” the public accusation of Castellón on social networks in 2023. An “error “which they believe they can resolve by expelling the messenger, Loreto Arenillas.
The problem is that Errejón’s former chief of staff rebelled against this version, denying having concealed the accusation and claiming to have brought it to the attention of Más Madrid, but that the management did not considered “relevant”.
In the end, the only version that is credible is the one given (in an oversight) Tania Sanchez: “We didn’t want to give it importance, we didn’t want to believe in it. It was worth it for us because it had a great political value.” Más Madrid, Sumar and Podemos delayed the detonation until nothing could be done to prevent the explosion.
But even assuming that Yolanda Díaz and Mónica García only had reliable news of Errejón’s sexist behavior last week, they would not be absolved of responsibility either. Because Díaz clarified that he knew that Errejón was in therapy, and García admitted to knowing that Errejón “had personal problems of another nature.”
Was someone with problematic sexual behavior, compounded by other blatant addictions, the right person to hold public office? Why did Yolanda Díaz not only not oust but also promote as spokesperson a man she knew was emotionally unstable and about whom there was a dark rumor of humiliation of women?
The vice president considers herself exonerated from any responsibility because Más Madrid informed her that they had “closed the process” of 2023, after the alleged victim deleted the tweets in which she accused Errejón of unwanted touching.
But, according to Díaz’s version, the investigation that resulted in Errejón’s expulsion was opened last Tuesday due to a similar circumstance: the anonymous testimony of an alleged victim on social networks.
Why have events similar to those that prompted Díaz to act so immediately not motivated him in 2023? The only difference why this time they gave importance to the tweets of the alleged victims is that they did not remove themselves from the network. And we can even say that the facts reported by this woman were more clearly constitutive of an alleged sexual assault than those reported. Elisa Mouliaa.
The only certainty is that Sumar and Más Madrid are overreacting by granting summary judgment against Errejón to cover up the negligence and permissiveness they have been harboring for years. But, in the end, The only concrete measure that has been taken is a mandatory feminism course for Errejón’s former colleagues.
