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Spain's highest military, Chief of Staff Miguel Ángel Villarroya, offered to resign on Saturday because he and other high-ranking military officials had been vaccinated against corona earlier than others.
Defense Minister Margarita Robles accepted the request, reported the news agency Europa Press and the state TV broadcaster RTVE, citing the Ministry of Defense.
The general justified his move with the fact that he wanted to "protect the reputation of the armed forces".
The early vaccination of high-ranking military officials had been criticized as a privilege.
According to the national vaccination plan, people who are particularly at risk are currently vaccinated against the Sars-CoV-2 virus, i.e. mainly residents of old people's homes and their nursing staff.
The military emphasized that there is an internal vaccination schedule that has not been violated.
A colonel from the Guardia Civil police unit, which was organized as a military police force, had previously been dismissed by the Minister of the Interior, who had been vaccinated along with the military officers.
Some Spanish local politicians and officials as well as a priest had already had themselves vaccinated, although it was not yet their turn, as RTVE reported.
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The ruling socialist party PSOE initiated a party expulsion process against eleven of its members and asked them to resign from their posts as mayor and councilor.
Politicians from the largest opposition party, the PP, were vaccinated prematurely.
For the same reason, the Regional Minister of Health of the Murcia Region, Manuel Villegas, had resigned.
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