The Minister of Justice, Interior and Public Administration, Gabriela Bravo, continues to look for formulas -within her powers- to round up the whoremongers and combat the phenomenon of prostitution. This Monday, the head of Justice has sent to the Department of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility -in the hands of her party colleague Rebeca Torró- the request to modify several articles of the Road Law of the Valencian Community of 1991 in a that prostitution clients who intend to acquire paid sex on regionally owned roads can be sanctioned with fines of up to 15,000 euros.
Thus, Bravo announced it during his speech at the Feminist Forum “Prostitution Ordinance Proposals” organized by the Citizen Protection area of ??the Valencia City Council in which he assured that this initiative joins the others that his department has launched ” in order to establish a society free of prostitution.
The councilor explained that the proposal sent to the Department of Territorial Policy requests the inclusion of a new article at the end of Title VIII of the regional regulations on roads where “the temporary occupation of public domain areas, of protection and reserve to carry out uses and activities related to the provision of services of a sexual nature.
In addition, the proposal adds that “an action procedure to support and protect people who carry out uses and activities related to the provision of services of a sexual nature” must be established.
In this way, the proposal of the Ministry of Justice also includes the addition to article 41 of the Highway Law, a new section that defines as a serious offense “requesting, negotiating or accepting, directly or indirectly, paid sexual services in spaces subject to this law, as provided in its article 2. In no case will the behaviors detailed in said articles be grounds for sanctioning women in a situation of prostitution or victims of sexual exploitation.”
In this sense, it will be considered a serious infraction that can be sanctioned with fines of between 3,001 and 15,000 euros.
As reported by Justice in a statement, the minister explained that the Valencian model to eradicate prostitution “in which we have been working for fifteen months” is based “on the need to guarantee fundamental rights because without them we cannot speak of democracy ”. For this reason, he has defended that although we must “focus on the pimps”, we must also “look at them, who are not there by their will but because we continue to drag a concept of patriarchal society in which there are men who consider that they have right to pay for a woman’s body
“From the Generalitat we are going to continue marking the path towards abolition with concrete measures such as the modification of the Show Law and the Abolitionist Ordinance model to put an end to this phenomenon that shames us”, concluded Gabriela Bravo.
