Vox boycotts the political consensus against gender violence

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Autonomous parliaments of Andalusia , Madrid , Murcia , Valencian Community , Cantabria , Balearic Islands , Melilla ... City councils and deputations of Zaragoza , Granada , Guadalajara , Elche , Getafe , Madrid , Palencia ... In all these institutions, Vox boycotted this Monday on Monday Historical institutional consensus against gender violence.

Constitutional representation spaces, where every November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - unanimously analyzes and denounces sexist violence as a structural fact, they had to remain silent as an institution. And they did it the same day that the last gender crime raised 52 women killed so far this year and 1,028 since they are counted (2003) in Spain.

Vox's denial of the concept of gender violence prevented official statements, which in many places require unanimity. Sometimes only one person was enough, such as in the Ibizan City Hall of Sant Josep , for institutional amputation. There, the councilor of Vox, Pino Vidal , who a few months ago said that the workshops of sexual identity "invite homosexuality", pulled the manifesto of the national leadership of his party to request the repeal of laws that "criminalize man ".

The strategy of the formation of Santiago Abascal was to monopolize media and political prominence in the face of a consensus dating back to 2004. That year, the Congress of Deputies unanimously approved the Comprehensive Law Against Gender Violence (LIVG), a rule that It was endorsed by the Constitutional Court and that inspired unitary political positions. Until this Monday.

25-N of 2019, the day of the political crack

Because this 25-N will go down in recent history as that of the political crack against sexist violence. Vox rejected the statement of the Andalusian Parliament arguing that the LIVG is an "ideological tool to confront men with women"; there are "propaganda campaigns that criminalize men."

For the first time in 11 years, the Balearic Parliament did not approve the solemn declaration against sexist violence. "There are special courts against heterosexual men," said Vox deputy Idoia Ribas .

The councilor of Vox in the City of Palencia , Sonia Lalanda , refused to sign a motion that argues that gender violence "is a violation of human rights that, as the UN recalls, suffers one in three women in the world (...) Those who intend to dilute it in other types of family violence of a very different nature and who find their corresponding sanction in the Criminal Code do the victims a disservice. "

In the Parliament of Murcia, where the tripartite PP, Citizens and Vox governs, Vox deputy Isabel Campuzano read a manifesto outside the House that says the LIVG "collectivizes and victimizes women."

Cristóbal Palacio and Armando Blanco , the only two deputies of Vox in the Parliament of Cantabria , prevented a statement that appeals to "build a more egalitarian and less violent society." The president of the Chamber, Joaquín Gómez , was clear: "This Monday I will not be able to read the statement in the plenary session because there is no unanimity." This is the first time it happens.

"It's the neomachismo"

The presence of Vox also made impossible a joint text of the City Council of Elche asking for "zero tolerance with the abuser." Not even Guadalajara , because, according to Vox, "there is public money to criminalize man." Not even Melilla , where Vox stopped a joint text in a "pitiful" plenary session, according to the socialist Elena Treviño . "It's the neomachismo. Or the machismo of all the life in modern version".

Although in most places where the PP and Citizens share power or votes with Vox, the first two parties were unmarked from the third; in some municipalities they signed the same. In El Espinar ( Segovia ), the three signed a text calling for the repeal of the LIVG for being an "ideological tool" and "criminalizing our children, brothers, grandparents and friends." Citizens announced a file to their councilor and, shortly after, the withdrawal of the text was announced.

And it is also the first since 2005 in Madrid. Neither in the town hall - where the PP holds the mayor's office and Citizens the vice mayor with the votes of Vox -, nor in the Community - where the same thing happens - could they read a manifesto condemning gender violence. Far from that, the spokesman for the town hall, Javier Ortega Smith, denied the specificity of sexist violence and repeated the idea that victims are not helped, but rather "ideologized" associations.

The president of a group of survivors, Nadia Otmandi , who lives in a wheelchair by bullets shot by her brother-in-law when she tried to defend her sister, reproached her for the speech and Ortega did not look at him. A short distance from there, the leader of Vox in the Assembly of Madrid, Rocío Monasterio, was the only policy invited to the institutional act to reject a purple bracelet with the motto: "Stop Gender Violence".

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