“Loreto is stopping it.” That was the phrase that circulated in the ranks of Más Madrid a few months ago, according to a former member of that party – founded by Íñigo Errejón in 2019 – to whom this information reached directly and from within. Loreto is Loreto Arenillas, current representative of Más Madrid in the Madrid Parliament, spokesperson in the Women’s commission and who years ago was part of Errejón’s team. And what Arenillas was stopping, according to this source, was the complaint of touching that a young woman, anonymously, said she had suffered. at the hands of Íñigo Errejón, then deputy in Congressin June 2023, at a festival in Castellón de la Plana.
The woman had recounted that episode on the social network He did so by pointing directly to Errejón, although he later deleted the tweet. And he also explained, in that Twitter thread that was later deleted, that the day after the party a person named “Loreto” who introduced himself as a “friend of Errejón” had called him to apologize and offer to “mediate” and “solve.” the situation, and that he had ended up asking him not to make “public mockery” of what had happened. “Later we discovered that ‘Loreto’ was x, a representative of Más Madrid,” he added.
Errejón resigned yesterday Thursday as national deputy and parliamentary spokesperson for Sumar following the request of Más Madrid and Yolanda Díaz’s party for an anonymous complaint of sexist violence that was published this week on social networks. The march occurred after a call from Mónica García to Errejón on Wednesday night. Later, according to Más Madrid sources, Sumar was asked for the Errejón minutes. “The things that are coming out now have surprised us,” say party sources, who defend that without their intervention the events would not have happened, reports Manuel Viejo.
Since Thursday, neither deputy Arenillas nor the spokesperson for Más Madrid in the regional Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, nor any of their communications managers have responded to this newspaper’s questions about what happened in Castellón and the alleged subsequent efforts of Loreto Arenillas. . Contacted this Friday at 1:08 p.m., the party was “just talking about this matter,” according to Más Madrid sources, who have declined to make any further comment on the matter.
The diary Public saved the deleted Twitter thread and recovered it yesterday, just like other media have done in the last few hours. The story began like this: “Last Saturday, June 17 (2023), I experienced a very uncomfortable situation with Íñigo Errejón (@ierrejon) that could be classified as sexist aggression. I don’t know if this will go anywhere, but I feel a duty to tell it. I would also greatly appreciate the dissemination.” The woman said that she had met Errejón, whom she did not know, at a party in Castellón and that at one point he had put his hand first on her waist and then on her ass. She explained that, given her discomfort, it had been a friend of hers who “swatted” her hand away. And that, after telling one of the organizers of the event, Errejón and his friends had left the place.
In the thread of Twitter messages – all of which were later deleted – the affected woman continued telling what happened the next day: “A girl who introduces herself as Loreto calls me, and tells me that she is a friend of Errejón, to which I was quite surprised. cut. She apologized for what had happened to me and introduced herself as a ‘mediator’ to ‘solve’ the situation and ‘repair the damage’ (…) Towards the end of the conversation, she was telling me that everyone had their own way of doing things. solve things, that I could do whatever I wanted, but that to her personally, public “scorn” did not seem like the most appropriate way. Tired of the conversation, I told her that I would consider entering that ‘mediation’ and I would notify her when I made a decision.”
After the Twitter thread was published, its content began to circulate among the members of Más Madrid, who talked about how to manage this possible crisis. The response that circulated among them was that Loreto was stopping him. That is to say, there were members of the party with knowledge not only of what had happened at the party but also of Arenillas’ subsequent efforts.
The Minister of Health and spokesperson for Más Madrid, Mónica García, regretted this Friday that her party has not known how to do “enough” in relation to the accusations against Errejón. “Everything we are learning in the last few hours is horrifying and devastating,” he wrote on social networks. “Unfortunately, we have not been able to do enough and I do not have words to express my deep regret and my concern and support for all the victims. We are fed up and all cases have to come to light. “Our commitment is against machismo, wherever it comes from.”
