He the mayor of Vita, Antonio Martín Hernández, apologized for singing, during the festivities of this municipality of Ávila, on August 25, a song that tells the story of the rape of a young girl. He did so a few hours after the complaint filed by the PSOE and Podemos and which the video of this intervention in the popular festivals began to circulate on social networks and in the media. It is precisely a video with which the first mayor, surprised on a cruise around the Greek islands by the controversy, apologized, even if it says nothing about his resignation.
In his speech This is hidden behind the fact that it is a song “that was traditionally sung at Vita festivals”. and that he did not want to “offend anyone.” “I have always respected women, girls and boys,” continued Martín Hernández, who concluded by saying that “if anyone felt offended, I am very sorry and for my part, this song will not be sung.”
The controversy arose yesterday, when the secretary general of Podemos, Ione Belarra, and the organizing secretary and spokesperson of Podemos, Pablo Fernández, shared a video on the social network X in which the mayor of this small town of Ávila of 80 inhabitants on stage singing a song that said: “I found a girl alone in the forest, I took her by the hand and led her to my bed.. “I lifted her skirt and pulled down her panties.” Fernández demanded that the PP suddenly dismiss the mayor. “This idiot is Antonio Martín Hernández, mayor of Vita (Ávila) for the PP, advocating pedophilia and rape. The PP must put an end to this at once, it is intolerable that public representatives have this type of behavior. Shame. Disgust. Infamy.”
This idiot is Antonio Martín Hernández, mayor of Vita (Ávila) for the PP, excusing pedophilia and rape.
The PP must put an end to this at once, it is intolerable that public representatives have this type of behavior.
Shame. Disgust. Infamy.… pic.twitter.com/6gTcKWdRiV
– Pablo Fernández (@_PabloFdez_) September 1, 2024
Then, and after repeating this refrain several times, the lyrics continue: “The first Caliqueño chased her away. The second Caliqueño expelled her. In the third, there was no more milk.
The reactions and comments on social networks were not long in coming. It was in the same “X” where the PP of Avila clarified that the mayor is not a member of the Popular Party and announced that he would leave the PP Municipal Group. “We reaffirm our commitment against any humiliating attitude towards women and minors.” The president of the Commission and at the same time of the PP of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, described Martín Hernández’s intervention as “absolutely intolerable.”
