Only members of the government team participated on the balcony of Toledo City Hall in the white ribbon award ceremony on the occasion of the International Day of Violence Against Women. The Social Affairs Advisor calls for unity and calls on all political forces, as well as all entities and associations working against violence suffered by women, to unite “on such an important day to eradicate this scourge from our society.”
The Advisor for Social Affairs, Inclusion, Family and Elders, Marisol Illescas, This Monday he invited all citizens of Toledo to participate in the institutional event to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women which is celebrated this afternoon at 6:00 p.m. at Corral de Don Diego. – Salon Rico, “a tribute to the victims, to the women murdered last year”.
Once in the Don Diego Corral – Rico Roomthe march will start towards the Town Hall and a torch will also be installed on the balcony of the Town Hall which symbolizes “tribute to all the victims”.
This is what he emphasized Illescas after having placed the white ribbon on the balcony of the City Hall of Toledo, symbol of 25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, where he stressed the importance of commemorating this day “to make visible a scourge that affects women and against which we must all fight together”, and where he also recalled and deplored the last woman murdered yesterday, probably because of gender-based violence.
For this reason, the councilor once again called for the unity of all and called on all political forces, as well as all entities and associations that work against the violence suffered by women, “we must all be united in such an important day to eradicate this scourge from our society. »
The PSOE version
For its part, the Municipal Socialist Group met this Monday on the Town Hall Square, coinciding with the International day against gender violence, to condemn the 40 sexist assassinations that have occurred in Spain throughout this year. “A social scourge for which the entire society must continue to fight and take to the streets to raise their voices and say that this must stop.”
This is how the socialist vice-spokesman spoke, Ana Abellán, who deplored two other assassinations that occurred in recent hours, the death of a woman in Seville who was allegedly murdered by her companion and the death this Monday of a 15-year-old minor in Orihuela, injured by a knife in the neck allegedly by his ex-partner, another minor under 17 years old. “A violence that does not stop, that does not stop” and that, if these two cases are confirmed, there would be 42 women who would have been murdered in 2024 because of sexist violence.
The vice-spokeswoman spoke to the media in the Town Hall Square with the rest of the socialist councilors, where she explained that her political party did not participate in the installation of the white ribbon on the balcony because ” they will never be next to “a government team which makes women invisible and which votes against in plenary session of the Municipal Council the realization of an institutional declaration on November 25”.
Thus, he insisted that the Municipal Socialist Group “He is not going to be complicit in the political postures of PP and Vox who also voted against a motion to work on equality policies and today they are here to take a photo and say they believe in equality.”
For Abellán, “it is clear that the mayor accepted as his own the denialist postulates of Vox, of those who deny gender violence and of those who blame the victims, the mistreated and murdered women, and he made them his own. “.
In statements to the media, Ana Abellán also criticized “the mayor’s latest measure against women’s rights”, such as the unilateral elimination and 48 hours before its holding of the 25N march, without consulting the entities that make up the Local Council . Women of Toledo and despite the fact that the demonstration of The 8M platform continues this afternoon on the same route that Mayor Carlos Velázquez and his social affairs advisor, Marisol Illescas, assure that it is not viable.
“This year, the mayor took a new step in this boycott of women’s rights by canceling the November 25 march that had been held in Toledo for many years. And he did it, unilaterally, without counting on anyone and without official communication. The announcement was made via a WhatsApp message two days before its celebration.
The PSOE considers that this is “one more turn of the screw by the mayor to make women, sexist violence and equality in our city invisible” and that Carlos Velazquez and Marisol Illescas They ignored the entities and groups that make up the Local Women’s Council and who have been working for more than 30 years to eradicate this social scourge.
Finally, the vice-spokesperson referred to those who speak of division in the face of gender-based violence. “If anyone divides the city around this issue, it is the mayor himself” because, knowing that a demonstration against gender violence has been called by the 8M Platform, he counter-programs this march by calling at the same time for an act of condemnation.
