ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 9, 2022 / 15:00 pm
Controversy surrounded the recent appointment of a former communist candidate by Bishop Antonio Gómez Cantero of the Diocese of Almería, Spain, as the episcopal delegate/head of Culture and University Pastoral Ministry.
Enrique de Amo was the leader of the Izquierda Unida (United Left) communist coalition in Almería and a recent municipal candidate for the Podemos political bloc, which shares the same ideology, although he has now disassociated himself from that party.
The Vox party, considered on the far right in the Spanish political spectrum, has charged that the newly appointed head for Culture and University Pastoral Ministry addressed his voters in insulting terms and therefore has asked the bishop to dismiss him.