The fracture in the Government moves to another 8-M crowd

• Politics Ministers had to pass the 'Montero Law' without being able to read it

Feminist protests filled the streets of the main Spanish cities again this Sunday in another 8-M vindication of women's equality. Citizens mobilized significantly again despite the coronavirus and despite the discrepancies that arose within the feminist movement, which did not agree to agree on the national call for a strike and work stoppages as it did in both previous years.

The demonstrations did not reach the record figures of last year but were massive. The Madrid attended 120,000 people according to the Government Delegation , which last year estimated participation in 350,000 and in 2018, the year of the 8-M hatching, in 150,000.

In a festive atmosphere and with much prominence of the youngest, slogans chanted against sexual assaults - "with clothes, without clothes, my body does not touch" - and posters against gender violence were shown - "we owe it to those who will never return », in claim of the distribution of tasks-« Manolos, make dinner alone »- or in favor of labor equality -« I don't want your compliments, I want your salary ... ».

Some 50,000 people, according to figures from the Urban Guard, overflowed the center of Barcelona under the slogan "Together and diverse for a decent life." In Seville almost 20,000 people participated in the two marches convened; 18,000 in Granada there were about 18,000; 10,000 in Málaga , 8,000 in Cádiz and Córdoba , 4,500 in Almería and some 2,000 in Jaén . Thousands of people participated in Bilbao , where the claims continued throughout the day. In Vigo , there were 50,000, according to the City Council, and in Zaragoza more than 10,000, according to the Government Delegation. In Castilla-La Mancha there were massive mobilizations in Toledo , Albacete , Guadalajara , Cuenca , Talavera de la Reina and Ciudad Real . Some 3,500 people supported the feminist demands in the capitals of all the provinces of Castilla y León : 3,500 in Valladolid , 3,000 in Segovia , 1,000 in Soria , Ávila and Palencia , 1,500 in Zamora , 8,000 in Salamanca , 9,000 in Burgos and more than 12,000 in Leon .

The main political parties joined the call, with the exception of Vox and the novelty of the incorporation of the PP for the first time. PSOE and United We went to the demonstration in Madrid each under his banner, after a week of crisis of the Government coalition on account of their differences by the Sexual Freedom Law, which approved the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, and framed in the struggle of both parties to lead the feminist movement. A division, personified especially in the disagreement between Vice President Carmen Calvo and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, which did not close this Sunday.

“Some of us have been on March 8 for many years, when hardly anyone knew what it meant, when there were no major demonstrations, when almost no one was in the feminist movement we were already there,” said Carmen Calvo before the beginning of the demonstration, thus claiming feminism historical to which she belongs and that is in conflict with the most radical positions of the defenders of queer theory. "So the PSOE now goes to the streets of Madrid to accompany the feminist movement, which is what we have done in 42 years of democracy," insisted the vice president, who wore a purple handkerchief -the color that symbolizes feminism- like all the members of the socialist entourage. She was accompanied by the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, the Justice Minister, Arancha González Laya, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, the President of the Senate, Pilar Llopis and the Minister of Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska among others. Also present was Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

The socialist entourage was more restrained than the previous year, when the ministers jumped and sang, including some slogan against Citizens - "liberal feminism, total ridicule" - and the PP - "where they are, do not see, the flags of the PP."

Irene Montero was much more conciliatory. The minister of United We seemed to reach out to her Government partner with her words in which she claimed "a great feminist alliance." "Memory and the women who have come before teach us that it is together how rights can be conquered," he added, thus praising and thus adding value to the movement of historical feminists.

Irene Montero wore a purple t-shirt with the legend "Only yes it is yes", a clear nod to the Law of Sexual Freedom that has developed her ministry - and known as the "yes is yes" law - of which she is so proud. She was accompanied by some of her collaborators such as the Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell or the Director General for Equal Treatment and Racial Ethnic Diversity, Rita Bosaho. Pablo Iglesias stood with his little daughter in the background, as it is the norm in United We can give the prominence of the first rows to women.

The discrepancies between the different positions of the feminist movement have also become visible during this 8-M. The abolitionist Assembly of Madrid, which defends the abolition of gender, prostitution, pornography and rent bellies, posted a video on twitter accompanied by the following message: "Aggressions against the abolitionists of Madrid in a demonstration that belongs to all women". In the images you see a few protesters trampling the banners of others and arguing.

There has not been, however, any incident around the presence of a dozen PP policies, who attended for the first time and joined their tour at 5 pm, at the Prado Museum.

They did just the leaders of Citizens Begoña Villacís and Lorena Roldán attended the media just 20 meters between shouts of "outside, outside." Those of the PP, however, went unnoticed because they used a banner or purple scarves and because some of their best-known faces for citizenship were absent, such as the spokeswoman for the PP in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, or the president of the community of Madrid, Isabel Ayuso. Both were removed from the official position and decided not to attend. Yes, there was the Vice President of Social Policy of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, who advocated a «feminism without labels», Marimar Blanco, secretary of Equality of the PP, Ana Camins, secretary of the PP in Madrid and Belén Hoyo, president of the Electoral Committee, between others.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• PP
• Irene Montero
• Madrid
• United We Can
• Carmen Calvo
• Isabel Celaá
• Fernando Grande-Marlaska
• PSOE
• Sexual Freedom Law
• Carolina Darias
• Pablo Iglesias
• Pedro Sanchez
• Palencia
• Segovia
• Prado Museum
• Lorena Roldan
• Vox
• Ávila
• Zamora
• Victoria Rosell
• Soria
• Senate
• Bilbao
• Basin
• Real city
• Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo
• Castilla la Mancha
• Castile and Leon
• Barcelona
• Arancha González Laya
• Albacete
• March 8
• Guadalajara
• Lion
• Cordova
• Women's Day

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