Íñigo Errejón
Íñigo Errejón | |
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Member of the Assembly of Madrid | |
In office 11 June 2019 – 11 November 2019 | |
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Born | Íñigo Errejón Galván 14 December 1983 Madrid, Spain |
Political party | Más Madrid (since 2019) Movimiento Sumar (since 2023) |
Other political affiliations | Podemos (2014–2019) Más País (2019–2023) |
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Occupation | Researcher, politician, political strategist |
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Íñigo Errejón Galván (Spanish pronunciation:
Doctor of Philosophy in
From the standpoint of political theory, he is influenced by Ernesto Laclau and the Essex School of discourse analysis.
Biography
Early life and education
Born on 14 December 1983 in
Errejón was a
He studied at the
While preparing his doctoral thesis, Errejón stayed at the
Errejón began working for
He was a member of the editorial board of the political analysis journal Viento Sur , linked to IZAN.[5][23]
Podemos
In 2014, Pablo Iglesias appointed Errejón as campaign manager for Podemos in the European Parliament elections of 2014.[24] The campaign was a success, and the new party won 1.2 million votes.[25]
Errejón himself became one of the most prominent Podemos politicians in terms of public profile, featuring in TV shows like La Sexta noche.[25] On 15 November 2014, he was chosen as one of the 11 members of the Council of Coordination of Podemos, commissioned to the post of Secretary of Policy of the party executive board.[26]
By late 2014 Errejón faced public scrutiny and criticism as he had allegedly breached the conditions of his contract as a researcher at the University of Málaga (UMA), as the latter demanded physical presence and reportedly Errejón did not attend the UMA. Concerns on the incompatibility of his job as researcher with other paid activities (such as campaign manager) also appeared.[27] While his supervisor (fellow Podemos board member Alberto Montero) alleged Errejón had verbal permission to work long distance, an investigation by the UMA was opened, with the UMA announcing it would suspend Errejón's salary in December 2014.[28][29][E] However, eventually no disciplinary sanction was actually enforced by the UMA on Errejón, as Errejón had already asked that the contract not be renewed.[34]
Errejón was the campaign manager for Podemos in the
Errejón ran as a candidate for Podemos in the
From December 2016 to February 2017 the 2nd Podemos Citizen Assembly ("Vistalegre II") took place. Errejón did not bid for the party leadership (with Iglesias standing as candidate for Secretary-General with the single alternative candidacy of Juan Moreno Yagüe) but presented a project (Recuperar la Ilusión) competing with another two alternatives (around Iglesias and Anticapitalistas, respectively) in the matter of the composition of the State Citizen Council and the voting of several party documents.[43][44] Iglesias confirmed his role as Secretary General and his platform commanded a qualified majority in the voting of the composition of the State Citizen Council, with Errejón's project obtaining roughly one third of the votes. Iglesias thus imposed his vision and project in the party, in what it was considered then a triumph of the more left-wing faction of Podemos.[43] Just after Vistalegre II, Errejón was demoted from the position of Spokesperson of the Parliamentary Group in the Congress of Deputies and replaced by Irene Montero.[45]
In May 2018 Errejón launched a bid for the primary election to determine the Podemos list for the May 2019 Madrilenian regional election under the Sí Madrid 2019 platform.[46] Run as the party-liner candidacy, with no credible rival, it commanded a 98% of support from the party members.[47]
In January 2019, Errejón announced he would run in the regional election under the Más Madrid list,[48] the platform previously presented by Manuela Carmena (the Mayor of Madrid) in order to run in the municipal election (both the regional and municipal elections were to be celebrated on 26 May). While the initiative of Más Madrid was purposely open to further negotiation to include Podemos in some form (it was framed by Errejón as an "invitation" rather than as a "split"),[49] this formal unlinking from the party unleashed an internal crisis in Podemos. The crisis' toll took Ramón Espinar (the regional leader of Podemos in Madrid), who quit frontline politics in disagreement with the decision taken by Iglesias of actually presenting an alternative list to Errejón's in the regional election[50] (Podemos had convened not to present an alternative list to Carmena's vis-à-vis the municipal election). Errejón was then asked to leave his seat of deputy, and he (still leaving a door open to reach a unitary list of Más Madrid with Podemos, IU and Equo) quit the Congress of Deputies on 21 January.[51]
Más Madrid and Más País
Íñigo Errejón contested the 24 May regional election in Madrid as head of the
As negotiations between PSOE
The party coalition with Equo in Madrid obtained just two seats at the election, while the Compromís-dominated alliance in Valencia earned another seat. The Más País legislators, initially destined to join the Mixed Parliamentary Group, helped to create another miscellaneous group, the "Plural Parliamentary Group", merging with other legislators.[60] On 7 January 2020, Errejón congratulated Sánchez and Iglesias during the former's investiture session as prime minister, as both have reached a government coalition agreement, and warned that the action of the new government should not be directed against the opposition right-wing forces in the upcoming legislative term, as it would then buy the right-wing argument of Spain being split in two, rather than what Errejón thought it was actually the case (that "Spain is divided by inequality").[61] He then proceeded to vote 'yes' in the second round of the investiture.[61]
Ideology and stances
According to Chazel and Fernández, Errejón transitioned from the anarchist and libertarian sensibilities of his youth to an interest in Latin American populism, displaying a convergence toward the Essex School of discourse analysis in his PhD dissertation, underpinning the intellectual goal of the creation of hegemony through discourse.[62] A follower of Ernesto Laclau (whom he has explicitly cited several times as leading intellectual reference)[63] and Chantal Mouffe, Errejón has been considered as the "most forthcoming" figure in Podemos when it came to embrace the party as populist.[64] According to Franzé, rather than as antagonism between already existing actors, Errejón would understand populism as a reconfiguration of the legitimate demos.[65]
Errejón was a supporter of the figure of Hugo Chávez (whom he deemed a "source of political pedagogy"),[66] and an early defender of the Venezuelan bolivarian experience (Venezuela was described by Errejón as "my adopted fatherland").[66] In a 2013 interview to Venezuelan newspaper Correo del Orinoco, Errejón got to the point of stating that the lines for food Venezuelans experienced for hours were "because they have more money to consume more" and that there was a "culture of queues" because Venezuelans supposedly enjoyed socialising.[67] Spanish newspaper La Gaceta dismissed Errejón's statements as "absurd".[68]
Errejón assured in a 2018 interview that the country had made "very important progress" and that "people eat three meals a day". When the interviewer pointed out that the population had lost "around 10 kilos on average in recent years", Errejón responded by saying "I don't have that data".[69][70][71][72] However, the following year, he stated in another interview that "Venezuela is a disaster and it is obvious that I do not want that model for my country.[73]
Electoral history
Election | List | Constituency | List position | Result |
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Spanish general election, 2015 | Podemos | Madrid | 3rd (out of 36) | Elected |
Spanish general election, 2016 | Unidos Podemos | Madrid | 3rd (out of 36) | Elected |
Madrilenian regional election, 2019 | Más Madrid | Madrid | 1st (out of 132) | Elected |
Spanish general election, November 2019 | Equo
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Madrid | 1st (out of 37) | Elected |
Spanish general election, 2023 | Sumar | Madrid | 4th (out of 37) | Elected |
Publications
- — (2012). La lucha por la hegemonía durante el primer gobierno del MAS en Bolivia (2006-2009): un análisis discursivo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (PhD dissertation)
- Errejón, Íñigo; Mouffe, Chantal (2015). Construir Pueblo. Hegemonía y radicalización de la democracia. Barcelona: Icaria.[74]
- García Linera, Álvaro; Errejón, Íñigo (2020). Qué horizonte. Hegemonía, Estado y revolución democrática. Madrid: Lengua de Trapo.[75]
- Errejón, Íñigo; Serrano, Alfredo, eds. (2011). ¡Ahora es cuándo, carajo! Del asalto a la transformación del Estado en Bolivia. Barcelona: El Viejo Topo.
Notes
- ^ In isolation, Errejón is pronounced [ereˈxon].
- ^ Among other actions, the association protested against a panel at the UCM in which Rosa Díez intervened and invited Evo Morales to give a conference in the Faculty of Political Science.[9]
- IMF and World Bank) and Scotland (July 2005, against a new meeting of the G8) as well as the mobilizations against the Iraq War and the protests of 13 March 2004 in front of the headquarters of the People's Party in Madrid after the 11-M attacks.[12]
- ABC accused Podemos members Juan Carlos Monedero and Errejón of "working" (suggesting a paid remuneration) for the CELAG. Podemos refuted the latter extent arguing that, as members of the Consultative Board, they did not earn a remuneration.[22]
- ^ According to Podemos, the case was a "campaign of defamation" against Errejón for being one of the most visible faces of the party, now an emerging political force. The Podemos spokesman for Relations with Civil Society and Social Movements, Rafael Mayoral, even hinted that pressure from the Andalusian regional government could have influenced the decision taken against Errejón.[30][31] Elena Cortés , a member of the Andalusian regional government demanded Mayoral to provide evidence for the alleged interferences.[32][33]
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- ^ "Errejón será el candidato de Podemos en la Comunidad de Madrid y Tania Sánchez cae al número tres". abc (in Spanish). 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
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