Pedro Sánchez says Luis Rubiales gesture towards Jenni Hermoso shows Spain has a long way to go on equality and women’s rights
Pedro Sánchez, said Rubiales’s gesture showed that Spain still had a long way to go on equality and women’s rights. “What we saw was an unacceptable gesture,” he told reporters. “And the apologies he has given are not enough, I believe they are not adequate. He needs to continue to take steps to clarify what we all saw.”
Condemnation also came from inside Spain’s football community. “I just thought, how barbaric, how embarrassing,” said Miguel Galán, who leads a national facility that trains football coaches. “We can’t overlook that this took place in a work environment. The federation is the employer and she’s the employee. That reality – along with the element of surprise – means she couldn’t react the way she might have if the context had been different.
Galán, in his capacity as a national coach with the football federation, lodged an official complaint with the National Sports Council, the government body that oversees sport in Spain. The complaint, seen by the Guardian, describes the kiss as a “sexist, intolerable act in sport”, and alleges that it violates a Spanish law that'Tarnished the celebration': Luis Rubiales apologises after kissing Jenni Hermoso – videoThe complaint also alleges that the kiss violates the Spanish football federation’swhich lists a “forced kiss” as one of the behaviours associated with sexual violence. Galán said he had been told by the council that the complaint was being considered.
Neither the council nor Rubiales, contacted through the Spanish football federation, replied to a request for comment from the Guardian.
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