Lola Sánchez, who was one of the first five MEPs from Podemos when it emerged in 2014, has revealed that Pablo Iglesias commissioned her to make periodic reports on Miguel Urbán, a fellow seat and who was one of the main leaders of Anticapitalistas, which by then it was the third largest current within the purple party and that, finally, ended up splitting.
"In other words, it was his spy," Sánchez stressed in a thread of messages on Twitter, in which he addressed the clash between the former general secretary of Podemos and the philosopher Elizabeth Duval, under which he recounted his experience when a woman is the one who "contraries him". "What she does with her is denigrate her and push her away from her: 'don't come any closer to us,' she has said.
Lola Sánchez has affirmed that in her case the "last straw" was that she ignored the request to spy on Urbán. "He asked me for one little thing: that I periodically send him an unsigned document where I had to tell him everything that Urbán was doing in Brussels. In other words, that I was his spy."
"I also said yes and I got out. He never received a single report and I think that was the last straw that nailed me and got me out of his project," he continued.
Sánchez is forceful when it comes to describing his opinion on the matter. "These things made me want to vomit, and I felt that I shouldn't be there anymore. They had turned a project into fucking shit," he said. Likewise, she has said that she never told Urbán "so as not to generate more shit" and because she was "loyal" to the project.
When the events denounced by Sánchez took place, the Anticapitalistas current, the most left wing of the purple formation, had influence within the structures of Podemos. To begin with, because one of its main figures was Teresa Rodríguez, who was the leader of the party in Andalusia and a well-known figure. And, in addition, anticapis was also relevant because it had a prominent presence in the leadership of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, as well as in the parliamentary group of the Assembly.
It was precisely the alliance between Pabloism and the anti-capitalists that helped Iglesias win decisive battles against Íñigo Errejón in Podemos on several occasions, mainly for control of the leadership of the Community of Madrid. That war was the first round of the Vistalegre II congress, where the fate of the party changed forever, as the consequences were the departure of Errejonismo and the Anticapitalists some time after.
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