Madrid (EFE) new consistories coming out of the 28M elections.
The exchange of the departments of Equality by Family, in town halls governed by PP and Vox, have become known this Monday, in the midst of the controversy that arose from the statements of Santiago Abascal, who has rejected gender violence, considering that it is of “an ideological concept”.
City councils of Castilla y León and Castilla-La Mancha get rid of the Equality areas
In Burgos, the socialist councilor Estrella Paredes, who held the department of Equality and Women in the past term, has accused the popular of “laundering” sexist violence, leaving it “in the hands of those who deny it”, in reference to Vox and has warned that these policies put shelter houses and transit floors at risk for victims of gender violence.
The pattern is also repeated in Toledo. However, the mayor Carlos Velázquez, of the PP, has stressed that both popular and Vox had in their program the creation of the Family departments, and neither contemplated equality.
“This does not mean that they do not work for equality, quite the contrary. We are going to work for equality like the Toledo City Council has never done before ”, he pointed out.
Valladolid is left without a support office for women
In Valladolid, the Equality powers pass to the new Department of the Elderly, Family and Social Services, as presented this Monday by the new mayor Jesús Julio Carnero, from the PP, and his number two, Irene Carvajal, from Vox.
This council will go from a parity government to a majority of men: seven men and three women, and there is no trace of the women’s support office, which the PP did promote in the campaign.
Also in the Ciudad Real city council, the Department of Gender Equality and the 2030 Agenda has been abolished, which becomes the Family area.
For the former mayor of Ciudad Real, the socialist Pilar Zamora, with this change the PP shows that it has become a “hostage” of Vox’s policies in the city council. The former mayor has wondered who governs Ciudad Real: “The PP or the ultra-right.”
Also Orihuela (Alicante)
Last week, another city council, that of Orihuela (Alicante) already eliminated the Department of Social Welfare, LGTBI Equality and Rural Development, which was renamed solely Social Welfare. The leaders of both formations, Pepe Vegar (PP) and Manuel Mestre (Vox), signed the pact.
These changes have been adjusted this Monday, a day where the discourse on gender violence has been the protagonist. To the words of Santiago Abascal rejecting the concept, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has responded, who has assured that he will not take a step back in the fight against sexist violence, and has addressed both the left and Vox to emphasize that he will protect women and will not repeal the laws passed by his party on equality.
Abascal has also been answered by the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, who has asserted that denying violence against women is “denying the evidence and denying a problem that we have, a scourge.”
From Sumar, its leader Yolanda Díaz has reminded the leader of the PP that women ask for actions, not words: “And the facts say that he has agreed with the extreme right to trample on the rights of women in our country and LGTBI people, also”.