The health advisor of Vox, José Gosálbez, member of the PP government of the Valencia City Council led by Mayor María José Catalá, included a sum of 6,000 euros in favor of the Valencian Association for the Defense of Life in the chapter nominative grants from municipal budgets for the year 2025 which will be approved this Tuesday in plenary session. Gosálbez already organized an anti-abortion conference for students last March.
Socialist councilor Elisa Valía recalled that in her time, Catalá had repeatedly assured that as mayor she would never allow the far right to undermine women’s rights and freedoms: “She is- even the sister of a woman and the mother of a girl, but the 2025 budgets represent explicit support from the mayor of Valencia to an entity dedicated to the intimidation of women, to the harassment of women who freely decide on her body”, Valia said.
The PSPV councilor demanded that Catalá remove the nominal subsidy to this entity because “it cannot sell the dignity of the city and because Valencia does not deserve that the far right is the one dictating policies that affect women “.
As this newspaper reports, last March Gosálbez organized the “Meeting in defense of life in the city of Valencia” in front of a group of schoolchildren, which was held at the municipal center of Jubiocio, in the Benicalap district of the city.
The initiative sparked significant controversy that deepened after it was learned that among the 200 participants in the event were 53 fourth-year students from ESO and a high school student from the Inmaculada Corazón charter school de María for which the Town Hall has chartered a bus. The center confirmed to elDiario.es the students’ presence at the conference, although they declined to make further comments. Precisely, one of the axes of the government pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community was supposed to “take ideology out of the classrooms”.
As for the panel of speakers of the day, it was made up of the national deputy of Vox convicted of abuse and professor of constitutional law at the University of Valencia Carlos Flores Juberías; the director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Belén Merck Navarro; and the professor of bioethics and deputy vice-rector for research of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Emilio García Sánchez.
