Sumar withdraws its head of the list to the Senate for Álava, tried for gender violence

Sumar has withdrawn the head of the list, Aitor Abecia, from his candidacy for the Senate for Álava, upon learning that today he has been tried in Vitoria for a crime of gender violence.

Sources from the Sumar electoral committee in Euskadi have confirmed to EFE that Abecia has already resigned and that now the Álava list will “run” for the Senate, which already included the candidate for mayor of Amurrio on May 28, Leticia Jiménez , from Podemos; and Ester Palacio, from Ezker Anitza-IU.

Abecia, who was listed as “independent”, was Sumar's “star signing” for the Senate in Euskadi, since until this very Saturday he was the mayor of Zambrana representing a neighborhood list of the town that decided not to run again after showing mayor for 16 years.

Abecia's candidacy in Sumar had been publicly known today – the deadline for submitting lists closed at midnight yesterday Monday – so he has been a candidate for less than a day.

The former mayor of Zambrana, who belongs to the independent political platform AIZ, was denounced in 2020 by his ex-partner for an alleged physical assault that would have occurred due to a conflict between the two over the custody of a daughter they have in common.. Abecia had the profile of an independent, denounced irregularities in the plot of the 'Miguel case', which affected the PNV.