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In the midst of the struggle on the left for the leadership - and the course - of the feminist movement, the PSOE will take another step forward, taking advantage of the framework of its 40th Federal Congress held this weekend in Valencia. It will be the first time that Pedro Sánchez's party has formally declared itself an abolitionist of prostitution. A commitment that will be sealed in writing in the political presentation that will set the ideological course for the next few years.

It is, above all, an approach that can open a new gap in the coalition government with United We Can, with which it has already faced due to the recent Trans Law.

In fact, on paper, the debate should be led by whoever heads the Ministry of Equality, that is, Irene Montero.

However, the minister of United We can already resigned in her day to do so, aware of the division that exists - also on this issue - among the feminist groups themselves.

The fact that the PSOE now wants to promote the abolition of prostitution does nothing but put pressure on Montero, who personally declares himself in favor of the abolition but reluctant to address the matter from his department, not to open a melon that would threaten to also stress their own training.

The minister has already dropped that legislating in that sense is not easy either.

Even so, the first version of the socialists' presentation verbatim that the PSOE, "as an abolitionist party", must be "the promoter of the necessary political and social consensus" that allows "the eradication of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and prostitution ".

"Abolishing prostitution is a process that must be marked by legislative initiatives and social changes, while requiring effective public policies that offer an outlet for women and make prostitution a practice of the past."

The Valencian pressure

Now, it is precisely the host federation, the Valencian federation, that will press the most this Saturday in the debate of the amendments to harden the wording and leave no room for doubt about the commitment of the PSOE, which is asked for specific deadlines.

What the Valencian socialists demand is that the party commit itself "in this legislature" to present a "comprehensive law for the abolition of prostitution, a law that must protect and care for victims, punish prostitutes and pimps, as well as how to punish all kinds of pimping. "

In any case, the deputy secretary general of the PSOE, Adriana Lastra, already warned at the inauguration of the congress that the abolition of prostitution is not limited only to the legislative plane. "It is a measure that the federal leadership shares, and now what we are doing is deepening this abolition, but it is not only putting an article into a law but also providing resources for victims of sexual exploitation and treating those victims."

The feminism debate will certainly go through the congress.

And not without controversy, because the so-called classic feminism, headed in the PSOE by the former vice president of the Government Carmen Calvo, has been mobilized in recent days to try to amend the confusion that in her opinion is generated in the framework presentation with the use indistinct from the concepts of "sex" and "gender" and, which in his opinion is even more serious, by the predilection for this second term to the detriment of the first.

Confrontation with the 'purple'

Indeed, the basic text of the PSOE is dotted with references to gender inequality, the gender gap, the gender perspective, gender stereotypes, gender studies.

An erasure of women that "makes the cause of discrimination between women and men invisible", according to an amendment.

This approach to classical feminism is radically opposed to the most modern

queer theory

, whose postulates Podemos share and are the ones that ended up being imposed in the Trans Law.

That is to say, in the rule with which Montero beat Calvo and that rekindled the feminist war within the PSOE.

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