Íñigo Errejon leaves politics for personal reasons. The deputy and parliamentary spokesperson for Sumar has announced this through a letter published on his Twitter account in which he highlights that he has been working for some time on a “personal process and psychological support, but the truth is that to advance in it and to “To take care of myself, I need to abandon institutional politics, its demands and its rhythms.”
Errejón has made this decision, meditated on during “the last few months”, and which had been circulating through the gossip mills of Madrid since the first hour, because, he considers, it has been overcome by “the pace and way of life on the political front line.” ”, which, during the decade in which he has been involved in the institutions, “has worn out my physical and mental health and my affective and emotional structure. “I have reached the limit of the contradiction between the character and the person,” he says.
Sumar accepted his resignation at an executive meeting this Thursday and announced the opening of a process to gather information about the media complaints that point to Errejón on social networks.
The until now Sumar spokesperson acknowledges having acquired, over time and his political and media exposure, “a way of behaving that is often emancipated from care, empathy and the needs of others.” According to him, this attitude generates “a toxic subjectivity – which, he claims, is aggravated in men due to patriarchy – with co-workers, with organizational colleagues, with emotional relationships and even with oneself.”
The resignation concerns all his political positions and confirms his step aside. “I will always continue to be active and committed, but for me this institutional political stage is over,” he points out to repair both the good and bad moments when talking about “successes that I am proud of and errors that I hope to contribute to repairing with this decision.” ”.
Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Íñigo Errejón
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“I hope to contribute in this way to the renewal of generations and of cadres and ideas that democratic and popular forces need,” he added in the same text.
According to Sumar sources
The decision could be related to several anonymous accusations of sexist behavior with women
Sumar sources link Errejón’s decision to several anonymous accusations that have been circulating on social networks since Monday and that link him to alleged inappropriate behavior with several women. Given these accusations, the group has opened “a process to gather information.”
Following the announcement by the now former spokesperson, which he transmitted to the party organs, his executive met immediately and unanimously accepted his resignation. Sumar also highlights that the training aspires to “build a feminist society and politics and that requires a firm commitment in all areas.”
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Errejón, who began his political activism in Podemos, left the purple party after his confrontation with the then general secretary, Pablo Iglesias, in 2017 following the candidacy dispute that occurred in 2017 during the party’s second congress.
The defeat relegated him to a secondary position that ended up translating into a regional candidacy for Madrid that Errejón ended up declining to promote his own acronym ( Ahora Madrid ) together with the former mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, who led Ahora Madrid. The political adventure earned him representation in the Vallecas chamber and a subsequent national candidacy as Más País to finally become part of Sumar on the national lists of Yolanda Diaz’s coalition in July 2023.
