SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE Canarias considers “essential” the resignation of Alejandro Morales Mansito as president of the Tenerife Football Federation after his latest statements justifying his support for Luis Rubiales and questioning at the same time the feminist movement that represents women’s fight for real equality and effective.
The socialist deputy secretary and parliamentary spokesperson on the Social Rights Commission, Elena Máñez, has pointed out that these demonstrations “have been the last straw that broke the camel’s back of repeatedly unacceptable behavior, starting with the applause and the subsequent silence with which Mansito himself reacted to Rubiales’ controversial speech before the assembly of the Spanish Football Federation last August.”
Elena Máñez has said that these are “absolutely unacceptable” actions by the “head of a sport like football with a fundamental basis in equality between boys and girls.” “It shows that they do not know what equality is in our country and they have been the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she stressed.
Máñez recalled that at the end of last August the Socialist Party already considered requesting Mansito’s resignation, given his “clear and manifest” support for Luis Rubiales: “He was one of the presidents who, most clearly, before and “After the assembly, in the middle of it and in the days before, he defended Rubiales’ actions, after learning about the unaccepted kiss with Jenny Hermoso and the gesture from the stands in which he touched his genitals.”
“Unlike the Inter-Insular Football Federation of Las Palmas (FIFLP), José Juan Arencibia, who immediately resigned from his position, Morales Mansito did not even act as he should have done, immediately repudiating and rejecting the actions of Luis Rubiales. “To this day he has not expressed his rejection of totally unacceptable behavior,” he noted.
INTERVENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
For all this, Elena Máñez has reiterated, “we urge him to automatically stop being the president of the Tenerife Football Federation”, since “he does not represent the football and sport of equality that we from the PSOE propose.” If not, she has proposed that the Government of the Canary Islands should intervene by activating through the Minister of Sports Activity, Poli Suárez, or directly through the President of the Executive, Fernando Clavijo, “the mechanisms that are within its reach.”
In this sense, Máñez recalled that in the Canary Islands there are already regulated procedures that allow the autonomous Administration to intervene in situations that deserve it. As the most recent precedent is the case of the resolution signed last term by the Government of the Canary Islands to enable the dismissal of the then president of the Canarian Wrestling Federation and its entire management team, given the “situation of inactivity” and “non-compliance with the legal and statutory duties” to which they had led this federation.
Likewise, the socialist spokesperson has wondered about the role of the Canarian Institute of Equality and its “repeated inaction” in the face of episodes such as the recent complaint by the Association of Canarian Architects Marca Púrpura and now the statements of Morales Mansito, in both cases “denying the “fight for women’s equality.” For Máñez, it is necessary for this institution, which is the highest body responsible for equality, to abandon its silence and position itself in the face of this type of action, taking the measures that correspond to it.
