A Common Front for Equality and the themes of denying sexist violence after PP flirting

The Ministry of Equality and Communities reached an agreement this Thursday to make the State Pact against Gender-Based Violence permanent and to adhere to its related regional policies. The agreement was reached unanimously. Also with the support of the autonomies governed by the People’s Party. And it comes after a cascade of ambiguous messages, criticism of equality policies and interested confusion between popular sexist and domestic violence in recent weeks, and coincides with the government pact with the extreme right-wingers of Castile and Leon in Vauxhall. In this speech.

Last week, Parliament Speaker and future PP General Secretary Kuka Gamara demanded the abolition of the Ministry of Equality, though “this does not mean the demand for the disappearance of equality policy,” he added. Just days earlier, the next president of the PP, Alberto Nunez-Feijo, rejected the sexist component of deputy violence, and the Andalusian health minister advocated the use of “domestic violence” instead of “gender-based violence.” Both were corrected later.

“In recent weeks, we have witnessed very disturbing statements by various institutional representatives,” said Angela Rodriguez, Secretary of State for Equality. “All the representatives of the representative institutions of the sectoral conference agreed that it was necessary to show the public that there is an agreement here and to deliver an important message to women: the state pact against gender-based violence will be permanent and all governments. “The communities and the government are going to work to make that happen,” he added.

Rodriguez stressed that the Extraordinary Sectoral Conference hosted by the Senate this Thursday was an “island in the sea of ​​criticism of equality policy” and noted that harmony was “maximized” by the power of equality among councilors. Regardless of the political color of each. ”

Hours after Feio was announced as the new leader of the PP, the Secretary of State called on him to “take appropriate decisions to continue to protect the victims” and to “stop the nonsense of not playing into the hands of the anti-democratic forces.” Those brave women who “fight for this policy” and listened to their advisers that there is no sexist violence.

Ensure adequate funding

The unanimous agreement reached at the meeting calls for the establishment of a working group to articulate the renewal of the state pact against sexist violence, in accordance with the views agreed upon by all parties except Vox, at 25N. The commitment is that in June the group has conclusions and a proposal for agreement.

Commitments to equality by communities are driven by the introduction of mechanisms to ensure budget stability and a “stable and adequate funding system” to enable equality policies and projects to be maintained over time. It is also planned to improve the system of governance for rapid response to crisis situations, such as a pandemic or invasion of Ukraine, or to implement a policy to improve early detection of sexist violence.

The proposal made by the working group should also focus on new manifestations of violence, such as digital or economic violence, and pay particular attention to victims who “have not always been at the center of public policy,” including women of color. , Homeless, elderly or from the countryside.

The Ministry of Equality also handed over to the autonomous communities the measures included in the shock plan approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday due to the situation resulting from the war in Ukraine, including the accreditation of victims of trafficking in the country. “Until now, it has depended on working with the police, which has made it very difficult for them to access the resources and rights they have as victims,” ​​Rodriguez said of the paradigm shift in policy.