The spokesperson for the Executive Commission of the PSOE-A, María Márquez, assured that “there is no democracy without feminism”, while emphasizing that “in the face of gender violence, there is no no room for half measures”, this is why “we must be radical “against machismo and against policies that prevent society from moving forward”.
This was stated by Márquez, who participated this afternoon in the demonstration against gender violence in Seville. In this sense, he emphasized that “gender violence is a scourge that shames us all”, since he stressed that “socialists are radicals against machismo and policies that prevent society from progressing and improving.” ‘improve’, ‘Let there be feminism, equality’. , freedom and progress.”
“There is no place here for the radical politics of Vox, which cannot get up from its seat in the Parliament of Andalusia when there is a minute of silence for a woman murdered by sexist violence, and neither are half measures. of the Moreno PP government, with a reduction of ten million euros for policies to combat gender-based violence”, he criticized, according to the party in a press release.
In this sense, Márquez emphasized that “we still have a telephone number for domestic violence in Andalusia” and emphasized that “what the feminist movement has done is to fight against the fact that gender-based violence is something private and that it is part of the private sphere. “This is precisely what Ana Orantes did when she declared on Andalusian public television that she was a woman victim of gender violence and that she did not want to continue suffering from it at home.” , she stressed.
In the same vein, she recalled that Orantes “told it to all of Andalusia, on public television, so that many women like her could see themselves identified and leave the private sphere of their homes to tell it, denounce it and run away.” “Unfortunately, in the case of Ana Orantes, right after telling it, her husband tied her to a chair and burned her in the patio of her house,” she lamented.
The socialist spokesperson recalled that ten Andalusian women were murdered, a number, she said, “that we find heartbreaking and painful” and for which there are “more than enough reasons for us to be all here today to fight with all our strength against violence.” . “sexist”.
