The Government shows Luis Rubiales the exit door, although for now his determination to stop commanding the Spanish Football Federation without further delay has stumbled upon the sanction reduction of the facts decided this Friday by the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) . The resolution, which has left both the forced kiss to Jenni Hermoso and her lack of decorum in celebrating the team’s triumph in the World Cup seriously, represents a setback for the Executive because the milder qualification of what happened and not as a behavior “Very serious” prevents the Higher Sports Council (CSD) from activating the procedure from now on to remove the still responsible for the RFEF from his position. La Moncloa has chosen to react to the setback with President Sánchez at the helm, who today sentenced the federation leader: “It’s over”, he warned him at a rally in Malaga, endorsing the slogan that has gone viral in defense of Hermoso and her companions, real equality and the feminist struggle.
The acting head of government has taken advantage of the act called by the PSOE on the occasion of the opening of the new political course, marked by an uncertain investiture to which the socialist president aspires wrapped, among other arguments, in the banner for the rights of women, to convey that the Executive does not intend to give up its desire to dispossess Luis Rubiales of his responsibilities. Sánchez has done so without once mentioning the federation leader by name and without adding more information to what was already anticipated the day before by the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, about what the Government intends to do from now on: appeal to the TAD to try to obtain, at least, a precautionary suspension of Rubiales – away from his national and international functions for a week for 90 days, but by decision of FIFA – before the file is definitively resolved. The president has not specified how he is going to translate that “it’s over” into measures, but he has terminated his mandate, implying that the one still in charge of the RFEF is out of time and out of place before “the giant, unstoppable wave” of feminism.
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After remembering the pioneers, with special mention to the present Carmen Calvo -whom she excluded from her cabinet in the fight with the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero-, Sánchez has raised her audience to their feet by proclaiming that women have resolved «never submit to their husbands, their boyfriends, their bosses, the presidents of federations and the ‘sursum corda’. It’s over! », In the first of his allusions, without quoting him, to Rubiales. And after emphasizing that if the wave in defense of women’s rights is unstoppable, “although it is difficult for some to find out”, it is thanks to their joint movement and the support of “the men committed to you, he has asserted that” can aspire to represent Spain« who »makes it feel bad« with »attitudes and speeches that embarrass us«.
This is an impact of the ‘Rubiales case’ – the globalized repercussion of the sexism of who is the face of one of the most powerful federations in the football universe – delicate for the Executive, which Sánchez has tried to counteract in two ways. First, emphasizing that the players of the national team “have won twice” with their victory in the World Cup and “with the lesson of equality” launched “to the world.” And then, showing himself convinced that this does not erode the external image of the country because “the Spain brand is the exemplary reaction of the players and the spectacular reaction of society” against machismo. “It’s over,” he emphasized again, “and it’s over with all the consequences for the leaders involved in these unfortunate events.”
Sports justice has left the behavior of the president of the RFEF serious, both in terms of the unwanted kiss by Jenni Hermoso and the celebration holding her genitals that she starred in the box with Queen Letizia and before the planetary audience of the final of the World Cup. The failure to elevate the events to the category of very serious deprives the Executive of the legal tool with which it intended to provide the Higher Sports Council (CSD) for the immediate disqualification of Rubiales.
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The Government, which did not hide its disappointment in the urgent appearance with which Minister Iceta came up against the decision of the TAD, has activated a last path and a difficult success, the request for the precautionary suspension of Rubiales, that if today he cannot return to his office is by FIFA. Moncloa’s claim to put an end to Rubiales’ controversial mandate, with the vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, making her socialist allies ugly, which she interprets as a lack of diligence to stop the head of the RFEF, has collided with two serious drawbacks.
The TAD has opened a disciplinary file against Rubiales for serious actions. On the one hand, the court does not assess the entity as a possible sexual assault of the non-consensual kiss by Jenni Hermoso because the evaluation would be proper to criminal jurisdiction and it does not consider, with the information it claims to have, that this action and others that followed, such as the press release from the Federation in which Hermoso put exculpatory quotes towards the federative leader that she did not say, were the product of an abuse of power, the adjective that the Executive was pursuing. And, secondly, the court mitigates the seriousness of Rubiales’ indecent public expressions because it is the classification allowed by the Sports Law of 1990, which the court accepts given that the Government has not yet developed the new regulations that it does toughen the sanctions in these same cases
2023-09-02 13:49:54
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