The allegations of alleged sexual abuse against Juan Carlos Monedero have put Podemos in the spotlight, which maintains that its actions were correct when it "removed" him, in September 2023. "We activated the protocol immediately. From the moment we met the witnesses, we made ourselves available to the victims, who, for this reason, gave the media attention this Friday in reference to several witnesses they received a year and a half ago against one of the co-founders of the party. Faced with criticism for not continuing the investigation of the cases that had reached them and for not publicly denouncing Monedero, Belarra has used the scarecrow of the Íñigo Errejón scandal to defend itself.

After Íñigo Errejón, another co-founder of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero, was accused of alleged sexual abuse. According to the purple party, in September 2023 they received an email from a woman who reported that the co-founder of the party had had behaviors that could be considered sexual violence, such as "touching on the waist and the buttocks." On those same dates, members of the management received another witness from a second victim who requested that Monedero be removed from the party's events for a more serious case. Podemos maintains that they acted "from the first minute" and stopped inviting him to party activities. This Thursday it was learned that the Complutense University of Madrid has opened a file on Monedero, a professor of political science at this center, also for a case of alleged sexual abuse.