The PP and Vox exhibited their differences yesterday at the Valencia City Council in a tense day where the ultras ended up celebrating their “feat” of having achieved that the City Council will not approve a motion in support of 8-M, women’s day that is celebrated today. To the sound of “Long live Spain!” of Manolo Escobar, the voxistas boasted of what they considered a “historical achievement.” “We have shown that with four councilors you can do more politics than with 13,” party sources argued to this newspaper, exultant after having shown and marked distances with the PP. “They have made it clear to Mayor María José Catalá that she does not have the majority,” they pointed out from the opposition bench.
And not even the attempts of the PP – even going so far as to disavow its partners – stopped the joy of Abascal’s people. Already early in the morning, the spokesperson for the municipal government, Juan Carlos Caballero, made it clear that his party does not agree “at all” that implementing active employment policies in favor of women is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Two arguments that the Councilor for Employment and spokesperson for Vox, Juan Manuel Badenas, used to eliminate the word ‘women’ from the objectives of the València Activa Foundation related to promoting their labor insertion.
Caballero pointed out that the Departments of Innovation and Equality will assume the employment programs of the Valencia City Council aimed at promoting the labor insertion of women to “help them achieve real equality” and “give them the opportunities that women deserve” in the face of the wage gap. .
The PP leader stressed that his party and Vox are two different formations and that there are issues on which they can differ.
Some differences that were evident in the plenary session when Vox withdrew the motion presented by the PP to commemorate 8-M, women’s day that is celebrated today. The popular proposal called for, among many other things, to end the gender gap or promote activities that make effective equality between women and men visible, as well as inviting Valencian citizens to join in the celebration of this anniversary.
In the debate, Badenas accused the PP of being “more in agreement with the opposition than with its government partners” and regretted that the popular ones are “in favor of positive discrimination” and have bought “the framework of the left.”
However, the PP proposal did not achieve the support of the opposition either, which, after what happened the previous day at the València Activa board, decided to present an alternative motion to the initial text that called for the return of gender and anti-gap policies. salary in the statutes of the València Activa Foundation. PP and Vox overturned that alternative. Result: no motion in support of 8-M was approved for Vox’s revelry.
As this newspaper reported, it was not the only tug-of-war between the government partners. Early in the morning, Badenas (as he likes to be the protagonist) assured that the Valencia City Council would change the name of the Guillem Agulló promenade. He took it for granted, without having previously consulted with the PP – the majority party – which did not take long to disavow him and make it clear that the name of this young anti-fascist murdered in 1993 by a Nazi group will not be removed.
A day of complicated balances and evident distances that, despite everything, are not going to blow up the government agreement reached in the City Council.
