The Spanish politician Íñigo Errejón, parliamentary spokesperson for the left-wing Sumar party, which is part of the coalition government chaired by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, announced this Thursday that he is leaving politics, after a career during which he showed his closeness to left-wing governments in Latin American countries such as Bolivia and Venezuela.
Sumar accepted his resignation, after anonymous complaints of sexist violence made against him on social networks, sources from the party confirmed to EFE, which opened an investigation to gather information.
Errejón (Madrid, 1983) was until now Sumar’s spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Parliament.
The one who was also one of the founders of the leftist party Podemos assured in a message in .
For this reason, he leaves his seat in Congress and abandons all his political responsibilities: “The pace and way of life on the political front line, for a decade, has worn down my physical health, my mental health and my affective and emotional structure.” .
“I will always continue to be active and committed, but for me this institutional political stage is ending and I hope to contribute in this way to the generational renewal and renewal of cadres and ideas that democratic and popular forces need,” he concluded.
Errejón was one of the co-founders of Podemos, a party with which he was elected deputy for the first time in 2015 and with which he also served as spokesperson until February 2017, in addition to holding other organic positions.
He was designated Podemos candidate for the presidency of the Madrid region in 2018, but after strong disagreements with the party’s former leader, Pablo Iglesias, he decided to leave this formation and joined Más Madrid in 2019.
He then made the jump to Congress again, first as a deputy for Más País in the previous legislature in Spain, where he made metal health visible with his initiatives, and until now as a deputy for Sumar, a group in which he also served as spokesperson.
Íñigo Errejón obtained his doctorate in Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2012 with a thesis on the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia, a country that he visited during the Evo Morales era, with whose then vice president, Álvaro García Linera, he is co-author of a book
His defense of Chavismo and the Government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela provoked harsh criticism in Spain, where prominent Venezuelan opponents reside.
Errejón also collaborated with entities such as the Center for Political and Social Studies Foundation, which from Spain advised progressive governments in Latin America, and the Advisory Council of the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics, in addition to participating in activities such as the International Forum for Empowerment and Equality held in Buenos Aires in 2015. EFE
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