{"id":57541,"date":"2024-10-25T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57541"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:21:22","slug":"pedro-sanchezs-own-errejon-case-explodes-when-he-was-trying-to-do-damage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/25\/pedro-sanchezs-own-errejon-case-explodes-when-he-was-trying-to-do-damage-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez's own Errej\u00f3n case explodes when he was trying to do damage control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/24\/communist-errejon-and-the-boomerang-effect-of-supporting-feminist-mccarthyism\/\">The resignation of the communist deputy \u00cd\u00f1igo Errej\u00f3n<\/a> this Thursday has detonated a political scandal that affects the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/24\/communist-errejon-and-the-boomerang-effect-of-supporting-feminist-mccarthyism\/\">Communist Errej\u00f3n and the boomerang effect of supporting feminist McCarthyism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/30\/left-wing-and-feminism-revealing-a-political-business-whose-aim-is-not-to-protect-women\/\">Left-wing and feminism: revealing a political business whose aim is not to protect women<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez tries to cushion the damage caused by this scandal to his government partners<\/big><\/p>\n<p>After all, <strong>Errej\u00f3n was the parliamentary spokesman for the Sumar coalition, the PSOE's governing partner<\/strong>. Sumar has five ministries and a vice-presidency in the government, the latter in the hands of the leader of that coalition, <a href=\"https:\/\/okdiario.com\/espana\/yolanda-diaz-conocia-menos-6-denuncias-sexuales-contra-errejon-aun-asi-hizo-portavoz-sumar-13699839\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yolanda D\u00edaz, who knew about the accusations against Errej\u00f3n when she appointed him parliamentary spokesman<\/a>, according to Ok Diario.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, <strong>in the face of accusations circulating on social media against D\u00edaz and Sumar<\/strong>, claiming that they were aware of Errej\u00f3n's behavior and did nothing, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1849524557633196467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez published a message on Twitter<\/a> <strong>expressing his \"confidence\" in the communist vice president and in Sumar<\/strong>, stating that it is <em>\"an organization that has done and is doing a lot for the progress of women.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e1nchez's message is a clear attempt at damage control in a case that could harm the government<\/strong>, further aggravating the situation created by the corruption scandals affecting the socialists. Ultimately, <strong>Sumar serves to mobilize far-left voters that the PSOE is unable to attract.<\/strong> If D\u00edaz's coalition collapses electorally, the PSOE would have a very difficult time repeating the \"Frankenstein\" coalition that currently supports S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p><big>A former socialist activist denounces the PSOE's inaction in a case of harassment<\/big><\/p>\n<p>While this damage control operation was taking place, last night the PSOE was hit by its own Errej\u00f3n case. <strong>Elisa Abril, former general secretary of the Valladolid Socialist Youth<\/strong> (the PSOE youth wing), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elisaAbril17\/status\/1849547226412089467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a response to S\u00e1nchez<\/a> stating the following: <em>\"I filed a complaint internally and then in court. <strong>The party \u201ckindly\u201d asked me to withdraw the complaint \u201cbecause of the damage to the party\u201d. Guess who DIDN\u2019T ACT<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54092448315_369c19981d_o.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54092448315_5790fff9bd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In her message, Elisa Abril links <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariodevalladolid.es\/valladolid\/190209\/111999\/condenado-edil-psoe-acoso-ex-lider-juventudes-socialistas.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a news item from the Diario de Valladolid<\/a>, published on February 9, 2019 (when S\u00e1nchez was already general secretary of the PSOE and president of the government) with the following headline: <em>\"<strong>PSOE councillor sentenced for harassment of the former leader of Juventudes Socialistas<\/strong>.\"<\/em> The news item indicated that the man convicted of harassment, a PSOE councillor in Berrueces (Valladolid), <strong>published dozens of derogatory comments on Twitter against the victim for almost a year<\/strong> for having supported a candidate on the councillor's opposing list.<\/p>\n<p><big>The PSOE did not expel the convicted councillor until a second sentence was issued<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Despite the conviction, the newspaper noted: <em>\"<strong>The executive has not taken action against the Berrueces councilor, who remains in office.<\/strong>\"<\/em> According to the Diario de Valladolid, although he had been suspended from membership after the first court ruling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariodevalladolid.es\/valladolid\/190318\/131074\/psoe-expulsa-edil-berrueces-ratificar-audiencia-delito-acoso.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PSOE did not expel the councilor until March 2019<\/a>, after the Valladolid Provincial Court upheld the conviction against him for harassing the leader of the Socialist Youth. <strong>The victim had already resigned from her position in April 2018,<\/strong> despite the fact that her term expired in 2020. Currently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elisaAbril17\/status\/1849684540580626857\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa Abril is no longer a member of the PSOE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Elisa Abril's response to S\u00e1nchez goes viral on Twitter<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Hours before publishing that comment, and when the accusations against Errej\u00f3n were already spreading, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elisaAbril17\/status\/1849473531043545089\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa Abril wrote this other message on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cShut up, don't complain, you're harming the party by doing so.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nIt happens, it happened and I'm sure it will continue to happen.<br \/>\nThe hypocrisy of many people in political parties is BRUTAL.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elisaAbril17\/status\/1849547226412089467\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The message posted last night by Elisa Abril<\/a> <strong>has already gone viral<\/strong>. At this time it has been shared by more than 3,000 people and has more than 6,000 \"likes\". So far, <strong>neither S\u00e1nchez nor the PSOE have replied to the message from the former socialist activist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/52527180575\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resignation of the communist deputy \u00cd\u00f1igo Errej\u00f3n this Thursday has detonated a political scandal that affects the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[3352,693,2721,16942,7803],"class_list":["post-57541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-inigo-errejon","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-sumar","tag-yolanda-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}