The election of Iñigo Errejón as Sumar's new spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies has not come as a complete surprise, but few would have predicted it not so long ago.
The former founder of Podemos accompanied Yolanda Díaz and Marta Lois, whom he replaced as spokesperson for the parliamentary group in the Lower House, in the first act of the pre-campaign for the Galician elections, an act that seemed to confirm him as the right-hand candidate. of the second vice president of the Government.
Errejón's return to the party spokesperson on the left of the PSOE comes seven years after Vistalegre 2, the Podemos citizen assembly that ended up leading to his traumatic departure.
Later he founded Más País, a party that ended up joining the Sumar coalition for the last general elections.
“It is a controversial appointment, not all parties agreed.
In the case of Izquierda Unida, it has been exchanged with a spokesperson for Enrique Santiago,” explains Paula Chouza, EL PAÍS journalist, in the video that accompanies this news.