The Government comes out in a storm against Rubiales and sets Monday as the date for his fall

2023-08-25 14:14:52

The Government was unaware that the president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, He was going to carry out a speech like the one this Friday, in which he justified the kiss on the mouth that he gave the Spanish team player Jenni Beautiful After winning the World Cup, he presented himself as the “victim” of a “hunt”, charged against the “scourge” of “false feminism” and he announced loudly, against the odds, that he was not planning to resign. Rubiales thus converts his performance during the game last Sunday against England, which also included ostentatiously grabbing one’s testicles from the box as a form of celebration, in a political pulse: him against the Executive. But the Government did not sit idly by. He came out in a storm against the still president of the RFEF and activated the procedure for him to be suspended, setting Monday as the date for his fall.

Consulted by this newspaper, sources close to the acting Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, They explained as soon as they heard Rubiales that they did not think he was going to entrench himself. They hoped, as it had been published, that he would accept the seriousness of his behavior and announce that he was leaving office. “But we’re also not surprised by what he’s ended up doing,” explained.

A few hours after the top leader of Spanish football made it clear that he thought “fight until the end”, the president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Victor Francos, appeared to announce the details of the route to force his departure. This same Friday, the body, which depends on the Government, filed a complaint with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) against Rubiales for a “very serious offense.” The court meets once a week, on Thursdays, but the Executive asked its members to hold an extraordinary appointment next Monday. If they accept the complaint, the CSD would immediately order, that same day, the provisional suspension of the president of the RFEF, waiting for the TAD to adopt a definitive decision.

Once Rubiales’ intention to hold on to the position has been verified, the Government wants to act with the maximum speed, but he insists that he cannot hurry. “We don’t want to meet challenges that ruin the procedure. We don’t want to make any formal mistakes,” Francos said. In any case, they do not contemplate another way out of this conflict that does not involve the suspension of Rubiales. “It is a very simple case about well-known facts,” said sources from Culture and Sports.

The fixed calendar would only be truncated, in principle, if Rubiales left by his own means, accepting that his situation is untenable. Especially after the cascade of resignations of presidents of autonomous federations and the multiple criticisms of his words this Friday by the players of the National Team. But in the ministry they do not want to enter into assessing this possibility because it is not in your hand.

Bolanos, Montero and Diaz

Several of the main members of the Executive, meanwhile, they came out in a storm against the still president of the Football Federation. “Spanish society does not want neither machismo nor machistas. The real Spain is the one that celebrates the victory of the players in the World Cup, not this shame. Feminism makes us better. We will act”, wrote in X (the social network formerly called Twitter), the acting Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolanos. Also the head of the Treasury, Maria Jesus Montero, referred to the intervention of Rubiales. “Let them know well! Spain no longer accepts macho attitudes or allows women to be denigrated. Any attack on equality You will find the firm response of a feminist government”, she has tweeted.

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And the second vice president, Minister of Labor and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Diaz, against which Rubiales, as he himself explained, will file legal action for the criticism he had launched in recent days. “What we have seen today in the Federation Assembly is unacceptable. The Government must act and take urgent measures: impunity for macho actions is over. rubiales can’t go on in office,” he said.

Spanish society does not want machismo or sexists. The real Spain is the one that celebrates the victory of the players in the World Cup, not this shame. Feminism makes us better. We will act.https://t.co/6k1FnzZeD6

— Félix Bolaños (@felixbolanosg) August 25, 2023

Of Pedro Sanchez hinted last Tuesday that Rubiales had to leave the Football Federation. Hours after he received the team, and coldly greeted the president of the RFEF, the acting chief executive said: “What we saw was a unacceptable gesture. His apologies are not enough and even not adequate. Therefore, he has to continue taking steps to clarify what we all saw in the media “. The only” step “after his words this Friday, they conclude in Moncloa, consists of his immediate suspension.