Teresa López Pavón Sevilla
Seville
Updated Tuesday, March 5, 2024-14:01
A campaign by the Andalusian PSOE against the Government of Juanma Moreno regarding the celebration of
International Women's Day
has garnered significant criticism for using and turning around one of the slogans that generated the wave of support for the victim of La Manada .
The "I do believe you" that triumphed in those demonstrations calling for a change in the legislation against sexual assaults has become in the socialist campaign a
"Moreno Bonilla, I do not believe you",
to denounce the cuts that the Andalusian Executive has tax on Equality in the eyes of the socialists.
Different officials of the Popular Party and members of the regional government have already asked the general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE,
Juan Espadas
, to withdraw from the campaign, an option that the socialists categorically rule out.
The PSOE defends the use of this play on words to make visible the effects of the PP policies which, they claim, are eliminating the "advances" achieved in matters of Equality and in defense of women.
They refer, for example, to how the Board has maintained the
domestic violence telephone number,
which, in their opinion, helps to
"whitewash sexist violence
. "
Also to subsidies granted to anti-abortion associations "that harass women and question their rights."
Or the elimination, via decree, of the obligation to issue certain reports on gender perspective in the preparation of the Board's budgets or in the audits of the Chamber of Accounts.
They also denounce that equality plans are being "devalued" in the administration or in their demands on companies.
"Petty manipulation"
For its part, the Andalusian Government has accused the PSOE of "meanly manipulating" a widely accepted slogan to attack Juanma Moreno in a partisan manner.
This is stated by the spokesperson of the Board,
Ramón Fernández-Pacheco
, who asks the PSOE to rectify.
For the Minister of the Presidency,
Antonio Sanz
, the campaign is "unacceptable", while the Minister of Equality,
Loles López
, has censured the PSOE for trying to dynamit the consensus around equality policies, using women "as a
weapon politics
" in a "crude and degrading" way.
Also the general secretary of the PP-A,
Antonio Repullo
, or the spokesperson in the PP Parliament, Toni Martín, have requested the withdrawal of the campaign for "indecently instrumentalizing gender violence."