2023-08-25 21:39:38
A group of people have been summoned this Friday afternoon through social networks to demonstrate against the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, for the controversial kiss on the soccer player Jenni Hermoso in the final of the Women’s World Cup and show support for the players of the Spanish soccer team.
In front of the RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas, the protesters have issued a “red card” to request the resignation of Rubiales and the entire RFEF Board of Directors, with chants such as “Rubiales, palmeros, you are offside”. or “Jenni, sis, here’s your pack.”
In addition, during the course of the protest, which lasted about 45 minutes and was called at 8:00 p.m., a manifesto was read demanding the termination of the Federation due to the “sexist speech” of the RFEF president who, in his words , “has blamed” Hermoso for the kiss.
Likewise, heThe 8M Toledo Platform has called on citizens to concentrate this Friday in all the provincial capitals after the “horrible hate speech” by the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. In Toledo, they have summoned in the Plaza de Zocodover de Toledo” to request the resignation of Rubiales. In Cuenca capital another similar concentration has also been scheduled and with the same motto: ‘#You have to kick him out’, but for this Saturday, August 26 at 12:30 p.m. at the Carretería intersection with Sánchez Vera.
In addition, dozens of people have gathered this afternoon at the Cantabrian Football Federation in Santander, summoned by the March 8 Commission, to request the immediate dismissal of Rubiales. During the act, the participants, mostly women, have shouted slogans such as “It’s not a kiss, it’s an aggression”, “out with the machismo of the institutions” or “those girls are the champions”, as well as others in support of women and against Rubiales.
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They have also chanted songs addressed to the Cantabrian soccer player of the Spanish National Team, Athenea del Castillo, who this afternoon has publicly shown his support for Hermoso on Twitter, with the message ‘We are with you’ and a photo of his partner raising the World Cup after the victory. The concentration was also attended by the general directors of Sports and Social Inclusion, Families and Equality, Susana Ruiz and Tamara González, respectively, on behalf of the Government of Cantabria, and other political representatives.
On the other hand, the Plaza de la Constitución, in Oviedo, has also hosted this Friday afternoon a rally called by the collective 8M Feminist Movement in Asturias against Luis Rubiales. ‘Madreñazu to the patriarchy’ ‘Enough. We are unstoppable’ or ‘We are all Jenni’ These are the slogans that have been read on the banners that the attendees have carried.
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