Lola Sánchez, who was one of the first five MEPs of Podemos in its irruption in 2014, has revealed that Pablo Iglesias commissioned her to make periodic reports on Miguel Urbán, a fellow member and who was one of the main leaders of Anticapitalistas, which at that time was the third largest current within the purple party and that, Eventually, it ended up splitting.

"That is, that he was his spy," Sánchez stressed in a thread of messages on Twitter, in which he addressed the clash between the former secretary general of Podemos and the philosopher Elizabeth Duval, under which he has related his experience when a woman is the one who "takes the opposite". "What it does is denigrate her and push her away: 'don't get any closer to us,' he said.

Lola Sánchez has affirmed that in her case the "tip" was that she ignored the request to spy on Urbán. "He asked me for a little thing of nothing: to periodically send him an unsigned document where I had to tell him everything that Urbán did in Brussels. I mean, I was his spy."

"I also said yes and left. He never received a single report and I think that was the tip that nailed me and that took me out of his project," he continued.

Sanchez is blunt in describing his opinion on the matter. "These things made me want to throw up, and I felt like I shouldn't be there anymore. They had turned a project into fucking shit," he said. She has also 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 occurred, the Anticapitalistas current, the most leftist 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 had its relevance also 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 congress of Vistalegre II, where the fate of the party changed forever, because the consequences were the exit some time after the errejonismo and the Anticapitalistas.

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