“I am wearing a kufiya that I have borrowed from the Palestinian people so I don’t burn my head because after chemo I have lost my hair, dear undocumented sir. Kisses.” This is how the former Andalusian parliamentarian and Adelante Andalucía candidate in 2022 for the presidency of the Junta, Teresa Rodríguez, responded to a derogatory tweet, now deleted, during the Andalusian election day.
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Rodríguez shared on her social media a photo in front of the ballot box at the polling station where she went to vote. The outfit on her head caught attention in the photo. On X, a user decided to throw a rude comment at the politician. “What are you dressed up as?” it said. In response, Rodríguez revealed that she is undergoing chemotherapy due to cancer.
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The X user who asked the question apologized to the politician, who replied: “Don’t worry, really. Everything is fine.” Rodríguez, who had kept her illness private until yesterday, has since received numerous expressions of support and solidarity from civil society and politics, whether rivals or not.
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