The president of the PSOE of Seville, Amparo Rubiales, has presented her resignation on Thursday “to settle” the controversy created as a result of some of her publications on Twitter, in which she called the general coordinator of the PP, ElÃÂas Bendodo, a “Nazi Jew” .
The party leadership, which this Wednesday demanded a rectification from Rubiales, 77, has accepted his resignation and has thanked him for “his availability and work at this stage.”
And it is that after the request of her party, the historic socialist leader published a new tweet in which, far from retracting, she called Bendodo a “Nazi” again.
“Someone’s religion, origin or ethnicity should never be used for political criticism even if, as in my case, the intention was to point out a serious inconsistency. My apologies and I correct: Bendodo is a Nazi,” he wrote in his second tweet.
The PP, for its part, has called for the resignation of the president of the Socialist Party of Seville and has announced that it will file a complaint against her for hate crimes in an investigative court in the Seville capital, according to a statement issued this Thursday by the popular that La Vanguardia has had access to.
The PP of Malaga requested this Wednesday the resignation or immediate dismissal of the president of the PSOE of Seville, considering that this insult “is the result of fanaticism” and “is not directed only at Bendodo, but at the entire Jewish community.”
“Not everything is valid in politics”, pointed out the PP, which considers that “the use of Nazism in these terms can mean the trivialization of this regime”, something that the party finds “unacceptable”.
The president of the PP himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, stated this Thursday on Twitter that “attitudes like this cannot have a place in politics” and he has been convinced that “the majority of socialist militants do not share them.”
“It is unheard of that this person continues in the PSOE,” said Feijóo, who has indicated that society “is tired of those who sow hatred and confrontation”, and has shown all his support for ElÃÂas Bendodo.
On June 3, the Andalusian ElÃÂas Bendodo stated that Spain “is such a strong country that it has endured five years of harsh sanchismo”, although he warned that “it is not strong enough to endure nine years”.
“Bismarck said that Spain is the strongest country in the world, because we have been attacking ourselves for centuries and we have never managed to destroy ourselves, but Bismarck did not know Pedro Sánchez,” Bendodo said in his speech at the executive committee of the PP in Marbella (Málaga ).
The response of the president of the PSOE in Seville was immediate: “It is really the speech of a Nazi Jew,” he replied on the same social network.
Amparo Rubiales, born in Madrid in 1945 but Andalusian by adoption, is a lawyer, feminist activist and was a councilor in the Seville City Council, councilor of the Junta (the first woman to form part of an Andalusian government) and senator, among other related positions to the PSOE.
