Two of the four Sumar coordinators, Lara Hernández and Elizabeth Duval, are appearing before the media this Saturday along with the formation’s spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, and the secretary of feminisms, Amanda Andrades, after the outbreak of the Íñigo Errejón case. “We began to act quickly, gathering information and demanding explanations from Errejón,” said Urtasun. “All the information that is becoming known is devastating for society, for us, and shows that the detection mechanisms of our intervention have failed. We have the obligation to assume our responsibility.”
The appearance comes two days after the party’s former parliamentary spokesperson announced his resignation amid accusations of sexual assault. In the statement in which he reported his retirement, Errejón assumed “errors” and acknowledged having “reached the limit of contradiction between the character and the person.” In recent years, his closest collaborators had been leaving him behind and sources close to Sumar have admitted that they warned him that he should “control his personal life.” This Wednesday night, after a meeting of its executive, Más Madrid, a party that he co-founded in 2019 and from whose leadership he had also distanced himself, asked for his resignation and Díaz’s people told him that he should leave the minutes. The resignation, which affects the group on a fundamental issue for the space on the left of the socialists, feminism, leads Sumar to a new stage in a moment that is already delicate due to the step back of the second vice president of the Government and after losing more than half a million votes in the general elections.
Loreto Arenillas resigned yesterday Friday as a representative of Más Madrid in the regional Assembly after being accused by an anonymous account on the social network X (former Twitter) of mediating to prevent “public ridicule” of a case of sexual harassment allegedly committed by Errejón.
