The CC councilor in the Cabildo, David de la Hoz, unleashed the controversy in the extraordinary and urgent plenary session held last Friday, after insisting on calling María Dolores Corujo "madam president."
"Excuse me, madam president, you said president, which I imagine was a mistake," Corujo corrected him after a first intervention by the nationalist. However, De la Hoz insisted on calling her "president." "Madam president, yes, I said it correctly. Just like mister vice president, not vice president. But well, everyone uses the language as they think it should be used correctly. And in this case president is president and vice president is vice president, it is not vice president," he replied.
Faced with this, the president of the Cabildo reprimanded his attitude. "Firstly, according to both the Equality Law and the Equality Plan that we are going to update, it is an obligation, a political and moral imperative, to use inclusive language. And I am president, I am not president."
Corujo: "I want you to call me what I am"
"I speak in my name, in the name of the Government, and of all the women who are part of public activity as politicians. And I think I speak in my name and in the name of the entire feminist movement of all the associations and groups, in which we have worked for too many years. And unfortunately, in the celebration of each ordinary and extraordinary plenary session, we make visible one of the main discriminations, which is the social scourge that they continue to kill us, they continue to kill us for the fact of being women. And language is tremendously important although some do not believe in it, it is our visibility. Therefore, I publicly express my bewilderment, my disagreement about the way in which the CC spokesperson has addressed the president of this Cabildo. I want you to call me what I am," Corujo continued.
"If you want me to call you president, I will call you president," David de la Hoz finally agreed, who despite this, and although he stated that it was not his intention to bother María Dolores Corujo, insisted again that "you can say president or presidenta."
The Cabildo itself has disseminated on social networks a video with the moment of the plenary session in which this controversy was experienced, in which it also points out that the word "presidenta" is fully accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy, which has even expressed that "it is preferable today to use the feminine," which "is documented in Spanish since the 15th century and registered in the academic dictionary since 1803."