Logroño, (EFE).- The Minister of Equality, Participation and the 2030 Agenda of the La Rioja Executive, Raquel Romero, has assured this Thursday that, during this legislature, she has had “a job to do: endure to maintain the progressive Government”.
During the debate in the regional Parliament of the bill for the effective equality of women and men in La Rioja, which has been approved unanimously, Romero has defended herself against criticism of a defector to support the Executive since she was expelled from Podemos and continued as non-attached deputy.
In addition, the IU deputy, Henar Moreno, who was his coalition partner in the 2019 regional elections, made him ugly this Thursday in plenary session for sticking out the Equality Law, when “he should have started working on the rules that are incumbent on him from the first minute, because the Participation one has not been presented ”.
In his speech, Romero stressed that “to change things, you have to govern”, and stressed that “the policy that matters is the one that translates into laws, compliance with which the executive branch guarantees.”
“I had a job to do: hold out so that other colleagues could work and they could change things. Hold on to maintain the progressive government and that this Equality Law could be approved today ”, she insisted.
She has added that she has had to “endure all the smear campaign” that has been carried out against her and “endure the lies, hoaxes and insults, to show that it is worth trusting a left-wing coalition government.”
“My work is almost finished.” We had a job to do and we have done it”, concluded the minister, in one of her few interventions in the plenary session of Parliament, which only plans to hold one more session this legislature, at the end of this month of April.