Seville (EFE).- The Popular Party has requested this Wednesday the resignation or immediate dismissal of the president of the PSOE of Seville, Amparo Rubiales, for calling the general coordinator of the popular party, Elías Bendodo, a “Nazi Jew” on his Twitter profile .
The general secretary of the PP of Malaga, José Ramón Carmona, has affirmed that the socialist leader has crossed “all the red lines” with this insult, “which is the result of fanaticism and is not directed only at Bendodo, but at the entire community bean”.
“While I continue as president of the PSOE of Seville, both Pedro Sánchez and Juan Espadas are jointly responsible for these statements, something clearly unacceptable,” Carmona asserted in a statement.
“Not everything is valid in politics”, added Carmona, who considers that “the use of Nazism in these terms can mean the trivialization of this regime”, which the PP “seems unacceptable”.
The Andalusian PP trusts that the Prosecutor’s Office will act ex officio against the president of the PSOE of Seville for these statements.
Bendodo’s message
On June 3, the Andalusian Elias Bendodo, general coordinator of the PP, 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.
The response of the president of the PSOE of Seville, the historic leader Amparo Rubiales, was immediate: “It is really the speech of a Nazi Jew,” he replied on the same social network.
Bendodo responded to Rubiales’ statement this Wednesday, stating: “In the PP to ours: proposals and that moderation, common sense and a sense of State prevail soon in a new Government of Spain.”
Much more forceful has been the president of the PP of Jaén, Erik Domínguez, who has warned Rubiales: “I am not going to allow you one more minute to apologize for Nazism to anyone and even less to my partner Elías Bendodo.”
The popular leader has expressed on the same social network: “I hope that the observatory of possible hate crimes of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain or that the Prosecutor’s Office itself will act ex officio against this comment. I feel shame!”.
The spokesman for the Andalusian government, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has also spoken about this insult, saying that “this xenophobic and hateful comment qualifies the person who pronounces it much more than the person who receives it.”
The reaction of the Jewish communities
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE) has condemned this Wednesday an anti-Semitic comment by the veteran Andalusian socialist Amparo Rubiales against the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, whom he called a “Nazi Jew” through his Twitter profile.
“This is anti-Semitism since Bendodo’s Jewish origin is pointed out when no other politician is identified with his origin or religion,” according to a statement from the FCJE, which represents the majority of communities and associations of Spanish Jews.