Vox demands the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to dismiss the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez, after having shared a video of some protesters lamenting that the mother of Santiago Abascal could not have an abortion. The Podemos leader later deleted the video, but she has not exempted him from criticism from the extreme right or the PP. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has shown his solidarity with the Vox leader.
In a demonstration in Madrid for International Women’s Day, Ángela Rodríguez Pam uploaded a video on her Instagram where she recorded herself and then focused on some protesters who chanted “what a pity it gives me that Abascal’s mother couldn’t abort”. Later, the Secretary for Equality deleted the story from this social network.
This morning, Vox, the party led by Abascal, has charged harshly against the video and has demanded that Pedro Sánchez relieve number 2 of Equality “immediately”. If it does not take place, the far-right formation has warned in a tweet, the president and “his government will cross a line to which it will later be very difficult for us to return. Several Vox deputies have also harshly criticized Ángela Rodríguez. Such as Agustín Rosety , who has written that it is “the same Cainite and criminal left that burned down hundreds of churches, that killed Calvo Sotelo and provoked the worst civil war in our history.”
The Popular Party has joined the criticism. Its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has highlighted on Twitter that “not everything goes in politics”. “This type of attitude is unjustifiable in public office and the Government must condemn it,” Feijóo exclaimed, appealing to some movement by Sánchez without requesting the dismissal. Finally, the former president of the Xunta de Galicia has expressed his “solidarity with Abascal and his family.”
Ángela Rodríguez has come out against criticism and has reproached Vox for being “theatricalizing a bit”. “What the youngest girls in this country say in a demonstration is up to them to say or not to say,” stressed the Secretary of State. In her opinion, the members of Abascal’s party “do not understand feminism” and “have never gone to a feminist demonstration”, so they are unaware that there is “a variety of chants”, she has pointed out.