Vitoria (EFE) The popular ones reproach the rest of the parties for not having an impact on correcting what is known as the “only yes is yes” law.
The unions will hold their own events separately, in Bilbao, while the student union Ikasle Sindikatua has called a “feminist strike” and demonstrations in the three Basque capitals at noon.
In the afternoon, the traditional demonstrations organized by the Euskal Herria Feminist Movement will be held.
The Basque Government, which has not called any specific act on the occasion of 8M, has approved an institutional declaration on Tuesday.
equality every day
In its statement, the Basque Executive has encouraged citizens to express their commitment to equality every day in a “public and active” manner.
This year the Basque Government, the Provincial Councils and the Town Halls have come together in the “Emakumeak Gora!” campaign. to remember in the 8M in the Basque Country the need for women to rise in society without obstacles due to their condition and to occupy more management positions.
Precisely the Council of Ministers has approved on the eve of 8M the preliminary draft of the Law on Equal Representation of women and men in government decision-making bodies. The norm also affects other spaces such as the management of large companies, which must guarantee that 40% of its components are women.
On this March 8, the municipal groups PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Elkarrekin Podemos from the three Basque capitals will read institutional statements to which the PP will not join.
The PP stands out
This party has organized its own act in Bilbao considering that these texts avoid the need to correct the law of “only if it is yes” which, according to the complaint, has left women unprotected.
This Tuesday there have also been various statements on the occasion of 8M. The Ararteko has urged the public powers to guarantee the equal participation of women in the economic, labor and business world.
The PNV executive has advocated in a manifesto for changing the “limited” leadership of women in politics and business until reaching the 50% that corresponds to them.
The CCOO has published a report in which it states that, although the wage gap has been reduced by three points since 2019, the Basques “worked for free 80 days in 2020” and states that “the wages of women workers have to go up by 21, 8% to match that of men”.
With just over two months to go before the regional and municipal elections on May 28, women occupy 58% of the heads of the list for the most important institutions.
Women lead 19 candidacies, compared to 11 for men, of the 30 that the PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE, Elkarrekin Podemos-IU and PP have presented to the municipalities of the three capitals and the three councils. EFE