Yolanda Díaz, after Rubiales' resignation: "The feminist country is advancing faster and faster"
The resignation of Luis Rubiales as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation has generated a multitude of reactions. Yolanda Díaz, Irene Montero or the Spanish Secretary of State for Sports, Víctor Francos, who considered it to be “a good decision.”
The second vice president of the Government and acting Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, highlighted the advance of feminism and insisted on support for the Spanish national team player Jennifer Hermoso. “The feminist country is advancing faster and faster. The transformation and improvement of our lives is inevitable. We are with you, Jenni, and with all the women,” Yolanda Díaz said on X (old Twitter) shortly after Rubiales announced his resignation as president of Spanish football.
In addition, Irene Montero, acting Minister of Equality, and Ione Belarra, acting Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, reacted on the X network to Rubiales' resignation with a “it's over”. The first, next to a fist and a purple heart, and the second, next to a flexed arm as a sign of strength.
Víctor Francos, president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), considered that Rubiales has done “what he had to do” and asked that the structural changes to which Pedro Rocha committed be carried out and that there be elections “in a timely manner.” “in said organization.
“For me the resignation comes late but it is welcome,” said the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, in statements to journalists from the Rosaleda del Parque del Oeste.. Thus, he explained that he would have liked Rubiales to have resigned “from the first moment” to avoid the image that has been projected on Spanish football in recent weeks as a result of conduct “incompatible” with his position.
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León and the PP of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has considered that this procedure should have occurred “months and years ago”. “Now what the federations have to do is start that path and build a future project for Spanish football, men's football and women's football, which is increasingly important and which has certainly given us one of the satisfactions of the summer,” he added.
The Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, celebrated the resignation but said she hopes he will be disqualified by sentence. Rosell highlighted that “Rubiales has complied step by step with the entire sexist manual.”. First he appealed to the women around him, his daughters and his mothers, then he said that the kiss was consensual and now he finally resigns. “What I hope is that they disqualify him by sentence, that his departure is not a voluntary departure!”
The case began on August 20, when at the awards ceremony on the grass of the Sydney stadium after Spain's victory over England, Rubiales kissed the player Jenni Hermoso on the lips, while grabbing her head. .
The images provoked international outrage and multiple calls for Rubiales' resignation, even from the government.
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But at an extraordinary meeting of the RFEF on August 25, Rubiales repeatedly refused (“I'm not going to resign, I'm not going to resign, I'm not going to resign!”) and described the kiss with Hermoso as “spontaneous, mutual.” , euphoric and spoiled.”
Hermoso herself denied that it was consensual and this week she filed a complaint in court against Luis Rubiales. The National Court prosecutor's office had already opened an investigation against Rubiales for an “alleged crime of sexual assault.”
Police in the Australian state of New South Wales, where Sydney is located, told AFP that they had not received any requests from Spanish police about the case but that, if that happens, “they will provide assistance as necessary.”
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Rubiales' resignation had been demanded from various areas, including the leaders of the regional federations, summoned by the acting president of the RFEF, Pedro Rocha.
On August 26, FIFA had suspended Rubiales for 90 days “from all activities related to football at a national and international level.”
On Tuesday, the coach of the Spanish women's team, Jorge Vilda, considered a person close to Rubiales, was dismissed despite the world title and was replaced by his former deputy, Montsé Tomé.