Madrid (EFE).- The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, has received this Wednesday public support from various cabinet mates, both from the PSOE and from Sumar, having transcended “the example of machismo” that he showed with her in a electoral debate the PP candidate Esteban González Pons.
The digital newspaper Infolibre has published a video with excerpts from a debate between the heads of the list for Valencia in Congress, in which both Pons and Vox’s, Carlos Flores, repeatedly call Morant and Sumar’s candidate by their first names , Àgueda Micó, while among themselves they address you and your last names.
In that debate, which took place on Thursday, Morant asked Pons for a respectful treatment similar to the one she gave him, in one of the moments also included in the Infolibre video, published this Tuesday and retweeted by the Minister of Science with a message in which he calls Pons and Flores “lords”.
“Lack of education and machismo”, according to Calviño
The First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, in statements to the press in Madrid, has indicated that “everyone who has seen the video sees that it is an example of lack of respect, lack of education and machismo”.
“Treating the female representatives in the debates by their first names when they address the men with all respect, calling them sir and their last name, and also trying to ridicule those people, it seems to me that it makes it very clear that PP and Vox they are the same, that they do not have any kind of respect for the rights of women”, added Calviño.
Calviño believes that “wherever PP and Vox come in, women’s rights come out the door”, as he has emphasized to journalists, after he had previously wrapped up Morant with a tweet in this regard, in which he indicated that the PP and Vox are “increasingly equal”.
The Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has also tweeted that she supports Morant “in the face of this display of machismo and condescension by Mr. Pons and Mr. Flores.”
Support from Belarra and Rosell to Morant
The Minister of Social Rights, Secretary General of Podemos and Sumar candidate, Ione Belarra, has summarized in another tweet that “they are offended because they had not even realized their machismo.”
The Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez “Pam”, has tweeted that she finds this familiarity “regrettable”, “but unfortunately common”, and her comment has been retweeted by the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero.
The Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, has indicated that Morant in this debate “does not ask for better treatment, but equal treatment.”
“And their reaction shows that they can’t stand it. One of them has already been convicted of gender violence. The party of the other excused it as ‘a tough divorce’”, adds Rosell in reference to Flores and the justification made by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The president of Asturias also covers Morant
The acting president of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, who is expected to be re-elected in office this Wednesday, has also supported his party partner against Pons: “Mrs. Morant, not ‘Diana’. And it’s funny that you only do that with women.”
The Equality Secretary of the PSOE and candidate for León, Andrea Fernández, has written about this video that “two complicit men create a conversational climate where she ends up looking arrogant”, to add: “Nothing offends sexists more than a woman demanding the rightful place.”
“The disdain and classism of these two lords of PP and Vox is only comparable to their machismo and lack of education,” former Balearic president Francina Armengol, also a candidate for Congress, has tweeted.