Be a great idea or a concession to political messianism, Íñigo Errejón discovered time after it was a mistake to place the photo of Pablo Iglesias on the European election ballot of 2014.It was that appointment with the polls that we can appeared as a rocket at Mach 2 speed that broke all the dishes and glassware of the "78 regime" (now that Felipe González uses that term very proud, it is supposed towithout looking bad at them).The idea was his.Input, churches did not like it very much."It is my face that will be there and my body who will have to endure that," he said.It was not right.From what was seen later, his body endured him quite well.Errejón's, not so much.
The most country deputy has published a book - with everything.Of the velces to the future ', edited by Planeta - with the intention of telling its version about the boom and fall of Podemos, the personal and the party.He intervened decisively in the first and also in the second.His confrontation with Iglesias meant the end of innocence and the brilliant growth of the party.They are a kind of memories, which attracts attention on someone who is 37 years old.He publishes precisely when Yolanda Díaz intends to form a candidacy that transcends the acronym of Unidos Podemos and any other party.Show the wounds of the past right now in a book may be just a coincidence.It is also possible that you respond to other intentions.Errejón at the moment is skeptical with that project to regroup on the left.Iglesias, on the contrary, looks more hopeful.
Back to the 2014 ballot, Errejón tells the consequences of that gesture: "The game has been delivered to the sovereign.At least symbolically, he caudillizes ".As the idea was his, it seems that he is saying something like I forged the sword that crossed my heart.In his words, he doesn't sound so epic."As a mouse that designs the trap that will then kill it".Errejón as a victim of the maneuvers of others is one of the themes that circulates throughout the book.And where others do not arrive, he throws a hand.It is not that it is like a genius in that part of the self -portrait.
The crisis of Podemos - or the traumatic divorce of Pablo and Íñigo - was reflected in many media as an egos struggle of the two main founders of the party.Errejón laments that image that he considers false.Many of their voters wanted to believe that this was the only problem or thought that everything was part of a media conspiracy to end Podemos.The former number two of the party tries to deny it telling that everything started long before the first sentence was written about their differences.
It always presents itself as someone who defends the essences of Podemos, the one who supports the populist strategy, who believes that they must overcome all parties, including those of the left - that is, the United Left -, someone in the end that has always been showndistant from the "sad and loser left".Pablo Iglesias is the "mass idol", the rock star that isolates himself and ends up surrounded by his "clique".There Errejón recognizes the mistake of having left his friend alone and soon rival.Iglesias becomes solo on the icon of Podemos that fights in all media trenches, while Errejón deals with organizing the party.
Both will regret it later for different reasons.Errejón says that a group is formed around Churches to protect and advise him."They begin to say that they are not careful, that they take care of him.There is no caudillista system without a cut ".And that court, writes, comes from the United Left and brings his party mentality.
Iglesias will regret having left hands free to number two in the internal structure.In a meeting of about twenty people in a town in Ávila, he proposes to go in coalition with IU in future general elections and is in clear minority."This is the last time this happens to me," says Errejón that Churches said later.A leader will not beg the others to agree with him.It is September 2014, long before everything is going worse.
For Errejón, it is the moment when Iglesias begins to look for his own team, "people who obey him".He interprets it like this: "If a party is coming, I need communists.Because nobody better than a communist to inhabit a party ".Errejón begins to see communists everywhere.Or maybe write it now and did not realize then.From that moment on, his luck is cast.Has designed a vertical command structure, not very different from what exists in other parties.Therefore, he reiterates: "That first Podemos is the Podemos that I helped to design and that finally ended up killing me".
Errejón's ingenuity attracts attention.He says that the game was not something "central", for his own.It was a kind of "fat" or just an instrument.The idea that politics can be done without parties to get to power leads to this type of inconsistencies.Those who pass innocent always pay the price.
The division is inevitable and irreversible.The excellent result of the December 2015 elections does not serve to calm the spirits.The opposite happens.Churches and he defend radically different strategies.There is a strong discussion between the two in the Citizen Council on possible government pacts that does not transcend in all its hardness.The leader proposes to reach a pact with IU with which to add his million votes.Errejón opposes, although on the outside doors he will be more reserved.In the end, five (million votes) plus one end up adding five in the electoral repetition.But the relevant thing is that the party will already be divided until the end and will pay for it at the polls in 2019.
The following is already the chronicle of events.Errejón says he feels "guarded".His fight with Irene Montero is "constant".Everything takes a war air.They prepare "the fighting for Vistalegre 2".The factions become Telegram groups.There everyone is released among theirs.A filtration for an oversight in March 2016 reveals to the management what the errejonistas are plotting.Iglesias dismisses the secretary of Organization, Sergio Pascual."You are not going to survive," Pascual tells Errejón.This quiet in public.
"Iglesias's decision marked a before and after in his relationship with Errejón.He never was the same again, "writes Aitor Riveiro in 'Heaven will have to wait', a book about the first three years of Podemos."There everything fell," said a person who knew what had happened.
Months later, Errejonistas challenge Iglesias with a candidacy against the regional leadership of the party in Madrid, presided by Luis Alegre.The fact that in February 2017 Alegre publishes in this environment an article that signs the errejonist thesis on the "clique" that surrounds Iglesias ("they will manage to parasitize Paul to destroy the organism") reveals that the psychodrama of Podemos accountWith more turns than those that your voters can digest.
To summarize the internal atmosphere, Errejón cites in the book a phrase about Trotsky and Zinoviev and talks about purges.It would be that he thought someone had already written his name in a Piolet.When put in slaughter, Errejón has no problems relating his rivals in a somewhat obsessive way with the worst of communism.Shortly before, he has referred to "Stalinism Cuqui" (a piolet wrapped in gift paper?).Sixty pages later, return to the load."You can't be dissident in Moscow".Will you try to tell us something?
Errejonists are willing to plant battle."What happens is that we don't know how to do it".From what is seen in Vistalegre 2 in February 2017, you do not lack reason.Errejón tries the way condemned to the failure to present to the Assembly a program other than the management, but keeping his exam as leader.That surrealist moment occurs in which they take a figure of cardboard churches during the intervention of Errejón, a scene that could appear in its own right in 'The Thick of It' or any satire about the absurdities to which politics can carry.
The tragedy has become Farsa: "I can think.The same is that the original idea was ridiculous, which does not recognize.I want a cardboard leader to which I put the voice.How could I pretend to go well?
Iglesias and Errejón embrace in Vistalegre 2 on more than one occasion.It is a fiction.As in all wars, the first thing that is destroyed are the bridges.Some remain, like the candidacy of the second to the regional ones in Madrid, but when the time comes they will also jump through the air.Errejón leaves with Manuela Carmena to set up another game.
At the end of the book, the doubt assails the reader.Is your will?Before saying goodbye to politics, do you want to have the last word about what happened in Podemos?The news of the withdrawal of Pablo Iglesias of politics produces "a huge sadness".A "end of cycle feeling" and "end of a generational trajectory" comes to him.Apparently, it does not refer to yourself.The book ends with a word: "We continue".Therefore, it is possible that he will try again with that metaphor of his about the beginnings of Pode.