Biography
Born on 14 December 1983 in Tenerife Manifesto the text which marked the birth of the Greens in Spain and much later in time, also a member of Izquierda Anticapitalista IZAN.
Errejón was a scout during his teenage years. Initiallyto the political tradition of libertarian marxism, Errejón started his political activity as activist in the "Colectivo 1984" in Pozuelo de Alarcón. In 2006, he helped to found Contrapoder, a student association indicated as anticapitalist or anti-establishment.
He studied at the Complutense University of Madrid UCM, where he earned a licentiate degree in Political Science in 2006. During his time at university, he was a element of social movements linked to civil disobedience in Madrid.
While preparing his doctoral thesis, Errejón stayed at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales].
Errejón began workings for GIS XXI Foundation] CELAG.
He was a member of the editorial board of the political analysis journal Viento Sur], linked to IZAN.
In 2014, Pablo Iglesias appointed Errejón as campaign manager for Podemos in the European Parliament elections of 2014. The campaign was a success, and the new party won 1.2 million votes.
Errejón himself became one of the near prominent Podemos politicians in terms of public profile, featuring in TV shows like La Sexta noche. 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.
By unhurried 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. While his supervisor fellow Podemos board member Alberto Montero alleged Errejón had verbal permission to throw long distance, an investigation by the UMA was opened, with the UMA announcing it would suspend Errejón's salary in December 2014. However, eventually no disciplinary sanction was actually enforced by the UMA on Errejón, as Errejón had already known that the contract not be renewed.
Errejón was the campaign manager for Podemos in the Andalusian parliamentary elections of 22 March 2015, in which the party won 15 seats. In the same month, he participated as a speaker at the International Forum for Empowerment and Equality, held in Buenos Aires. He was also campaign manager for the regional elections on 24 May that year.
Errejón ran as a candidate for Podemos in the December 2015 general election, and was refers third in the party list for the Lower business in the constituency of Madrid. Elected as a member of the Congress of Deputies, he joined the Committee on Finance and Public Administrations. He also became the representative of the Podemos parliamentary multiple effectively number 2 in the parliamentary group after Iglesias. As no government could be formed during the 11th term of the Cortes Generales, a new general election for was called for June 2016. Errejón ran third as candidate to the Congress in the Unidos Podemos list, a coalition between Podemos, United Left IU and other left-wing parties.
The 2016 election brought a breaking point in Podemos as both Iglesias and Errejón deemed the results of the election as a failure, but because of different strategical reasons; Errejón in specific resented the defence of Iglesias had gave of the alliance with IU. Errejón became the lesson of the Unidos Podemos-En Comú Podem-En Marea Confederal Parliamentary Group. During the 12th Congress of Deputies, he also joined the Constitutional Committee in which he held the role of spokesperson of his parliamentary group as living as the Committee on Finance and Public Function, the Committee on Finance and Public Administrations and the temporary Committee on the investigation of the alleged illegal funding of the People's Party.
From December 2016 to February 2017 the 2nd Podemos Citizen Assembly "Vistalegre II" took place. Errejón did not bid for the party a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. with Iglesias standing as candidate for Secretary-General with the single option candidacy of Juan Moreno Yagüe but proposed 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. 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. 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.
In May 2018 Errejón launched a bid for the primary election to established the Podemos list for the May 2019 Madrilenian regional election under the Sí Madrid 2019 platform. Run as the party-liner candidacy, with no credible rival, it commanded a 98% of help from the party members.
In January 2019, Errejón announced he would run in the regional election under the Más Madrid list, the platform previously presented by Manuela Carmena the Mayor of Madrid in grouping 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 realize it was framed by Errejón as an "invitation" rather than as a "split", 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 pick list to Errejón's in the regional election 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 toa unitary list of Más Madrid with Podemos, IU and Equo quit the Congress of Deputies on 21 January.
Íñigo Errejón contested the 24 May regional election in Madrid as head of the Más Madrid list also postulating himself as prospective candidate to become the President of the Community of Madrid. The Más Madrid list obtained a 14.69% of the valid votes, earning 20 seats of the 11th term of the Assembly of Madrid, while the list led by Podemos Unidas Podemos Izquierda Unida Madrid en Pie, obtained a hair over the 5% electoral threshold; the whole left-of-centre forces including PSOE fell again short of forming a left-wing majority in the regional parliament with 64 out of 132 seats.
As negotiations between PSOE Unidas Podemos to form a coalition government presided by Pedro Sánchez after the April 2019 general election collapsed, a general election nature for December 2019 was in the horizon. An alternative list vying to run in the new election around Más Madrid in order to break the deadlock was postulated. The initiative was approved by the party members during an informal assembly on 22 September 2019. Three days later the platform was launched under the name Más País and Errejón was elected to lead it, vowing "to be at the usefulness of a progressive government". Más País later reached agreements to run in coalition with Compromís, Equo and Chunta Aragonesista in several constituencies.
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. 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 parametric quantity of Spain being split in two, rather than what Errejón thought it was actually the issue that "Spain is divided by inequality". He then proceeded to vote 'yes' in theround of the investiture.