PP and Vox have reached an agreement in Les Corts Valencianes – an institution chaired by the deputy of the ultra party, Llanos Massó – to “protocolize” a new way of proceeding in rallies to repudiate murders due to gender violence. With the vote against PSPV and Compromís, the parties that co-govern the Valencian Executive and that go hand in hand in the autonomous Parliament, have approved at the Les Corts Table to change the usual banner that presided over the minutes of silence -Les Corts against male violence (Les Corts against sexist violence) – by the motto: “No to violence against women.”
A term that convinces the PP and that will make Vox get behind the banner after the entire last legislature and what it takes away from this one, separating itself from the unitary motto. For the PP, this new slogan – which has had the opposition vote against (although PSPV and Compromís have admitted that it will be behind the banner) – will mean “the end of a debate that goes nowhere.”
Its spokesperson, Manuel Barrachina, has defended that he does not like groups using the terms to engage in politics given the seriousness of the events being condemned and has assured that “100% of Valencians would stand behind the banner.”
The PP began the morning justifying that the choice of the motto was made by copying the banners that hang from the Government Delegation but, after it became clear that the institution that depends on the central Government has also used expressions such as gender or sexist violence, it has changed its direction. his speech and emphasized that with the new banner “It will unite us.”
Meanwhile, the deputy ombudsman of Vox, Joaquín Alés, has pointed out that the new term chosen by them and their partners “is more in line with reality, with the law and without ideological qualifiers.” Vox maintains that there is no gender violence and understands that this adjective is an ideological element.
For her part, the second vice president of Les Corts, Gabriel Bravo, has accused the PP of “omitting the term ‘gender violence’ to whitewash a far-right party that denies the greatest scourge that our society suffers.” Bravo has defended that “in these cases, terminology is important” and has recalled that “women are killed for the simple fact of being women.” For the PSPV deputy, the Valencian Community “has taken a step back with this decision.”
Meanwhile, the Ombudsman of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, has described the events as serious and has regretted that the PP “benders to its far-right partners.” However, after a first hesitant response, the Valencian spokesperson has indicated that his party will be behind the new banner.
