Madrid (EFE).- The journalist and writer Cristina Fallarás, who published on her Instagram account the first anonymous accusation of sexist violence against Sumar’s former spokesperson in Congress, Iñigo Errejón, has assured that she has already received a dozen accusations against him and another half dozen against other politicians from different parties.
“Machismo is on the right, on the left, on the extreme right and on the radical left. It is in the unions as well as in companies and also in culture. And sexual violence is also everywhere,” Fallarás, who keeps thousands of testimonies of sexual violence on his Instagram profile, told EFE.
Errejón, who confirmed to the coalition and Más Madrid that the accusations are true and publicly announced this Thursday the resignation of all his political positions through a letter in which he stated that he had reached “the limit of the contradiction between the character and the person.”
This resignation occurred days after Fallarás published an anonymous testimony on Instagram in which he spoke of a deputy whose name was not mentioned and who was defined as “a psychological abuser.”
Different users related that testimony to the name of the former leader of Sumar and began to share more stories.
Shortly after, the actress and presenter Elisa Mouliaá publicly denounced on the social network X that she had been a victim of sexual harassment by Errejón. At dawn, Mouliaá filed a complaint with the police station for sexual harassment.
Support and accompany victims
Cristina Fallarás, who has had her Instagram account active since the Rubiales case broke out in August 2023 with the purpose of collecting anonymous testimonies of sexual violence, has stated that the accusations against Errejón mark a before and after.
“That the anonymous testimony of a woman has triggered other women to feel recognized and that this gives rise to them to report already marks a before and after. It shows that the fact that women tell ourselves is important to later denounce,” she expressed.
He has confessed that this is a much slower process than “an immediate #MeToo” in which the alleged aggressors are identified with names and surnames, but maintains that “it is clear that the results it bears are much more solid.”
In this sense, he has stated that it is possible that more accusations against Errejón and other politicians will be made public in the coming weeks, but he has warned that this depends a lot on “how the victims of this case are treated socially.”
“When victims are not given support, it is very difficult for other victims to report,” he explained.
