Madrid (EFE) closed with Vox and “justifies” it by reducing it to the expression of “a tough divorce”.
After Feijóo said this Monday before the veto of Carlos Flores, a Vox candidate for the Generalitat Valenciana convicted of violence against his wife that “he had a harsh divorce and led to verbal abuse”, the socialist leader has criticized that Feijóo justifies his actions in this way 187 agreements with Abascal.
“Wanting to justify their agreements with Vox by banishing sexist violence in all the agreements they have reached and reducing it to the expression of hard divorce, I find it painful and shameful,” he pointed out. Alegría has stressed that sexist violence “exists and is real and causes the murder of too many women and this requires forcefulness and unity from us”, she stressed.
He recalled that since 2003 more than 60 women have been murdered a year and has lamented the “curious way of working of the PP and dealing with this problem by erasing and banishing gender violence in all the agreements it has reached with Vox”.
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For her part, the government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, has warned of the risk posed by the PP agreements with Vox after years of united fight against violence against women: “There are no pacts, agreements, or hard divorces that justify laundering the gender violence”.
At the Council of Ministers press conference, Rodríguez alluded, without citing him, to the leader of the PP and warned that “with the positions of those who deny or justify” gender violence “Spain is going back twenty years”, since in 2003 the fatal victims of sexist violence began to be counted. Since then, he recalled, more than 1,200 women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners.
After recalling the unanimity achieved around the State Pact against Gender Violence, which implied providing this fight with more means in the police, judicial and social services spheres, he has stressed the need to continue deepening these policies and has criticized the elimination in many city councils of the Departments of Women or Equality.
At his side, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has warned the next Valencian government that they will monitor what happens with the police units that fight specifically against sexist violence in the community.
The PP says that Feijóo did not intend to justify gender violence
The PP spokesman, Borja Sémper, has clarified that Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not intend to justify sexist violence but rather reproduced the arguments of those who minimized his sentence for psychological violence against his ex-wife.
In an interview with Cadena Ser, the leader of the PP recounted last night that they told Vox: “We cannot sign with someone who has been convicted of verbal violence, twenty years ago, it is true; he is a professor, it is true; he has served his sentence, it is true; He had a tough divorce and he verbally abused his ex-wife and we said: you see, we can’t sign an agreement with this person”.
Sémper has come out of the way of criticism that Feijóo’s words have aroused, in which the left sees a minimization of male violence and the sentence against Flores in 2002.
In an interview with Televisión Española this Tuesday, this leader explained that with his words Feijóo “gathers up some of the things” that they “said” to the PP “to minimize this fact” and that they did not have an “effect” in his party as shown by the I veto Flores in the Valencian government negotiation.