Vox has barely taken two weeks to correct an appointment that contradicted its argument. The newly appointed by Vox manager of the Public Employment Service of Castilla y León (Ecyl) has resigned this Monday after criticism received for the same training that promoted him after it became known that his company has been in charge of teaching equality courses and sex education in more than 300 schools in Valladolid.
Javier Moreno Espeja, who acted as a monitor in some of the talks, has presented a brief letter of resignation in which he justifies his decision “to avoid any damage to the image of the party”, in reference to Vox.
Sources from the Junta de Castilla y León have indicated to Efe that the party was unaware of Moreno Espeja’s relationship with the aforementioned courses, although the curriculum he provided to the press on the day of his appointment did state that Moreno Espeja was “partner-director de Datainfo y Asesores, S.L.”, based in Burgos and since 2007, although they have subsequently clarified that he no longer holds that position. Through a statement, the Junta de Castilla y León has linked the resignation of Moreno Espeja with “personal reasons” and has assured that the Ministry will proceed “as soon as possible to replace this loss through the most appropriate formula.”
The aforementioned courses are voluntary and promoted by the School Councils of the educational centers, with 313 requests from public and concerted schools in the course that is about to end, in which almost 5,500 students have received these contents.
This resignation has occurred only a few hours after, in the plenary session of the Valladolid City Council, the only Vox councilor, Javier García Bartolomé, defended a motion in which he asked to paralyze the courses, considering that they were “ideological talks in the most Podemite style “, whose objective was to “indoctrinate” schoolchildren.
Tanro the socialist spokesman in the City Council, Pedro Herrero, as well as the mayor, Óscar Puente, have revealed that precisely the person in charge of the equality and sexual education courses taught in the schools and institutes of this city was the newly appointed manager of the Service by Vox Employment Public of Castilla y León (Ecyl), Javier Moreno Espeja, through the company Data Consulting.
With this trick, the mayor has described the members of Vox as “a gang”, which he has asked to clarify why he thinks that the nearly 5,500 schoolchildren who have participated in these courses this year are “in bad hands” , when they are the same hands in which all the workers of Castilla y León are.
The mayor has highlighted that Moreno Espeja himself has “personally” taught these courses, in which, contrary to what the Vox leaders maintain, “sexual postures” are not taught, but rather principles inspired by the Constitution and that help schoolchildren to know the reality that surrounds them and to prevent cases of sexual violence, gender violence or cases of bullying, among other situations.
In the vote, 26 councilors who add up to the PSOE, Valladolid Take the Word, PP and Citizens have voted against the motion defended by the only Vox councilor, whom Councilor Ireñe Núñez from the popular caucus has compared to a “driver suicidal, who circulates in the opposite direction and thinks that the rest are the ones who are wrong”.
After the municipal plenary session, the Valladolid City Council has informed that in a report prepared by the Data Consulting company itself, it states that some of the “greatest difficulties” for the development of these courses have to do with the “denier discourse of the violence of gender” that they have detected among students and teachers.
They also mention in their report that another of the aspects that make the courses difficult is the “rejection of the LGTBIQ community and little intention of knowing the dimensions that make up sexual diversity”, together with the “rejection of the issue of equality, under the premise that it is something repetitive and very hackneyed”.
