The position of the only Compromís deputy in Congress, Joan Baldoví, last Tuesday questioning the taking into consideration of the socialist proposal to prohibit pimping in all its forms was not improvised. This change within Compromís -which in February 2021 signed, together with the rest of the Botànic parties, a Non-Legal Proposal in which the Government was required “a legislative proposal that can abolish prostitution as a form of violence against women”- shows the definitive bet of Compromís for the postulates that the vice president Mónica Oltra has been defending.
The leader of the Initiative and electoral cartel of the coalition in the last two regional elections has considered that abolition is not a solution to such a complex reality and has opted for social reintegration measures, underlining her fear that punitive measures will end up damaging even more to women. In this line, which has ended up triumphing in Compromís, the allegations of the Ministry of Equality that Oltra directs against the attempts of the Department of Justice to modify the Entertainment Law to fine johns were presented.
Training sources confirmed this Wednesday to La Vanguardia that before the vote they spoke with Baldoví and that the result of his intervention is the party’s position on an issue that has generated much controversy in the feminist movement.
In fact, in the vote of the Congress the lefts were divided and even En Comú Podem (close to Oltra’s theses) did not vote together with their colleagues from Unides Podem who did support the PSOE proposal together with the PP.
In Compromís they are no strangers to this debate. Deputies and councilors of the coalition yesterday insisted to this newspaper that the formation in which they militate is abolitionist and emphasized what was signed in the Corts Valencianes or the intervention of their deputy in Congress in previous legislatures Marta Sorlí demanding the abolition.
By the way, the former parliamentarian, already far from the political front line, has been critical of the positioning of her party, although she has not been the only one who has shown her discomfort on social networks and in internal groups over the definitive positioning of her party.
The PSPV’s decision to present in all town halls the so-called ‘Abolitionist Ordinance’ that allows punters to be fined and protects the victims put the coalition on alert. In fact, a few days ago at a meeting of the Compromís women’s sector it was agreed to hold a monographic meeting to discuss this issue. And just yesterday, from the Compromís group in the FVMP, in collaboration with this sector, a videoconference with councilors was convened.
However, that has not stopped the discomfort in some internal groups and in a part of the bases that understand that the party’s position has been modified without too many internal explanations.
In this line, it is not ruled out that there will be internal movements by those who support the abolition in the coming days and it will be necessary to see if in all the municipalities where the socialists present their proposal, all the municipal groups of Compromís act the same.
