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Errejón has not responded at size in public to the allegations, apart from an obliquely worded resignation letter wherein he admitted to “errors” and warned that in front-line politics there was “a poisonous subjectivity which within the case of males is amplified by the patriarchy.” However, the affair is seen as damaging to the strident model of feminism which the Sánchez authorities has promoted.
Errejón, 40, was one of the distinguished figures of the brand new left that emerged a decade in the past to problem Spain’s conventional political powers. A co-founder of the far-left Podemos, his parliamentary expertise and political nous have been seen as key to the party’s early rise. He later shaped Más Madrid, which in flip turned a part of Sumar, a broad platform of events to the left of Sánchez’s Socialists.
“This scandal may very well be a deadly blow for Sumar as a model and a company,” Pablo Simón, a political scientist at Carlos III University, mentioned.
“This creates numerous very uncomfortable questions for Sumar,” he added. “Was this identified about earlier than? If it was, why was nothing achieved about it?”
Both Sumar and Más Madrid, which have positioned feminist points on the middle of Spanish politics, have been scrambling to reply such questions.
“If I had identified about such critical actions beforehand, I’d have acted simply the identical means I’ve achieved,” mentioned Yolanda Díaz, who’s a deputy prime minister, labor minister and the de facto chief of Sumar.
