“It is very serious what is happening, but it is even more serious that the PP assumes the ideological framework of Vox”, warn Moncloa.
The denialism of sexist violence and the offensive against feminism and the policies of equality defended by the extreme right of Vox have crossed the path of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. And the Spanish Government and the PSOE come together to try to get the leader of the PP, whom they accuse of whitewashing gender violence to save agreements in autonomous communities and town councils, to compromise. And even a possible absolute majority of the right, after the general elections of July 23. “Wherever he can, Feijóo makes an agreement with Vox”, insist La Moncloa.
“There are neither pacts, nor agreements, nor hard divorces that justify whitewashing gender violence”, warned yesterday the spokeswoman for the central government, Isabel Rodríguez, to reply to Feijóo, who the day before attributed precisely to the fact that ” he had a hard divorce” the conviction for sexist violence received by the candidate of Vox in the Valencian Community, Carlos Flores, finally included in the far-right lists for the Congress of Deputies.
The new president of the Balearic Parliament after the agreement between the PP and Vox, the far-right Gabriel Le Senne, is also the author of some dialectical pearl: “Women are more belligerent because they don’t have penises”. “Feijóo will justify it by saying that he had a hard divorce, for me it is simply disgusting”, replied Minister Pilar Alegría, spokesperson for the PSOE executive.
“Gender violence is a serious problem in our society, which concerns us all”, insisted the spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez, who thus highlighted the importance of feminist policies, equality and the fight against gender violence , which the socialists see as truly at risk following the irruption of the far-right in the institutions.
“It is necessary to continue deepening and advancing equality policies when there are political leaders who deny or justify gender violence”, warned the minister spokeswoman. “You can’t trivialize or whitewash gender violence,” replied Rodríguez to Feijóo. And he warned that with the positions of political leaders who do this, “the country is going back 20 years”, a fact that worries the Spanish Government and also “deserves social concern”. “There are many things at stake”, he warned.
But Feijóo also tries to break the stigma that Moncloa wants to hang on him and always affirms that he will fight against the cycle of male violence. And to demonstrate that the left accuses her of things that do not correspond to reality, yesterday she surrounded herself with representatives of classic feminism in a meeting organized by the PP foundation, Reformisme 21.
The philosopher Amelia Valcárcel, the writer and film director Mabel Lozano or the Carlos III University professor Montserrat Iglesias participated in the meeting. Feijóo committed to all of them to legislate against the trafficking of whites, present a proposal on the trans law and address other concerns, such as minors’ access to pornography.
The meeting helped Feijóo to listen to Valcárcel, a great theorist of the feminist movement, and showed his gratitude for the support he gave to the PSOE to change the law of only yes is yes: “When the PSOE realized up to what point was he creating a monster, the PP agreed. You could have let it sink”, he told Feijóo, with the argument that the PP would fix it when it arrived in Moncloa.
“You haven’t done it and I thank you”, he told her. The philosopher gave him her trust for this: “You are capable of making an effective feminist policy, because you have done it in this case”. “It was necessary to do this, and the PP has done it”, affirmed Valcárcel.
