“It seems horrible to me.” These have been the first words of the former mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena about the alleged sexual abuse and harassment committed by Íñigo Errejónwhich led him to present his resignation four days ago. “I could never think or hear anything related to that behavior,” says the former mayor. on his Instagram account this Monday about the complaint for sexual assault of actress Elisa Mouliaá and the wave of subsequent testimoniesas well as the suspicions that the former politician’s entourage knew what was happening and tried to hide it.
Carmena and Errejon They founded Más Madrid together in 2019thus causing a split in Podemos and dismantling the project of Now Madridwho had governed the capital between 2015 and 2019. For the parties to the left of the PSOE in Madrid, this decision opened a deep crisis, which led to the loss of the capital government in favor of the right after this political space was divided into different brands. .
For the relationship between Errejon and Pablo Iglesias, already very worn out, it marked a point of no return. And for the promoters of the project, who had designed it at the mayor’s house, during the famous empanadillas dinner, it opened a very brief stage of collaboration, which also left the seeds of discord sown in Más Madrid.
Thus, Carmena abandoned politics after the elections, having not been able to revalidate the position. And his party, without a leader in the City Council, experienced a struggle hidden by the leadership between those who had been its main collaborators: Rita Maestre and Marta Higueras. Errejón, for his part, He soon left Madrid politics to found a third projectafter Podemos and Más Madrid: Más País. In this way, in a matter of months we went from the kiss between Errejón and Carmena that marked the regional electoral campaign of May 2019 to neither of them doing politics in Madrid.
