Más Madrid has dismissed Loreto Arenillas this Monday.the former Cabinet Director of the former spokesperson of Sumar in the Congress. Íñigo Errejónas the party’s spokesman in the Women’s Commission of the Assembly, according to a report in the newspaper El País.
Arenillas said would resign his seat in the Assembly after being accused of covering up alleged sexual abuses of the former Sumar spokesman but finally Más Madrid announced the cessation of his organic charges due to his refusal to resign.
Almost two weeks later, the deputy still has not handed in her resignation. The party has repeated on several occasions that they do not contemplate “another possibility”. that is not the delivery of the act, although he has also defended that “there is no urgency” with the process of the still deputy.
“I am not the one who has to give Loreto Arenillas a deadline. She is the one who has issued a statement saying that she will hand over the minutes,” insisted recently the spokeswoman for Más Madrid in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot.
This same Monday, in statements after the Board of Spokespersons, the leader of Más Madrid has confirmed that Arenillas had not delivered the act, although she was convinced that this resignation would come. “It is true that it has been weeks since this deputy has not had political activity and I think that we are in the ordinary process of her resignation. and that the notification will reach us in the next few days,” explained Bergerot.
Arenillas denounced the “abuse of power” by the party’s Executiveassuring that they had not followed the ordinary channels and asking for protection to the Committee of Guarantees and defending that he informed the case to the spokesperson in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, who was then the Secretary of Organization.
Bergerot has denied that she has considered resigning. at any time after being singled out by Arenillas as a person who knew about Errejón’s episode at a concert in Castellón. “The spokeswomen of Más Madrid have been forceful expelling anyone who exercises macho violence within our spaces. Our hand has not trembled to take the decisions that had to be taken. And so we have done and so we have communicated outwardly, “he claimed.
In any case, Arenillas communicated that she would not become a non-attached deputy, what would cause Más Madrid to lose a deputy. and the leadership of the opposition would go to the PSOE.
A change within the normality of the process
Now, Más Madrid has dismissed Arenillas as head of the spokesperson of the Women’s Commission in the Assembly, where she has been belligerent on issues such as sexual violence.
She will be replaced by Congresswoman Mariana Arce.PhD in Chemical Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and deputy member of the Digitalization Committee and member of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Health Committee.
“This is a change that falls within the normality of the process, since Loreto announced that she would leave her post,” a spokesperson for the group told Europa Press.