For this reality to change in relation to gender-based violence, we need more measures, more actions, more security and more realistic and more effective care for women victims of gender-based violence. In recent hours we have learned that the government is preparing a new State Pact against sexist violence. Complementary measures that will focus on indirect, economic and digital violence. And right now the news is that the PSOE and the PP agree.
Government President Pedro Sánchez said Monday that “more and better cooperation and coordination” are needed in the fight against gender-based violence, while calling for “let’s put aside political differences” and renew the Pact against gender-based violence “as soon as possible”.
“We need more and better cooperation and coordination between state security institutions, forces and organs and judicial operators. We must fight in the area of values and conscience. But above all we must continue to face this dramatic reality and fight against resignation to the inevitable,” he declared during the event organized on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of violence against women, celebrated this Monday, November 25.
In this sense, Sánchez referred to the VioGén system, currently It affects more than 100,000 women, 1,200 adolescents and 1,700 children. He also referred to the fact that more resources are needed “to prosecute and punish aggressors”, with the creation of courts for violence against women, the reform of the central register of sex offenders or the improvement of assistance to the victims. In any case, he recognized that “there is still a long way to go” to eradicate gender-based violence, which “remains deeply rooted”.
For his part, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, He asked this Monday to “depoliticize” the fight against sexist violence, accused the government of using it as a “partisan flag” and urged the executive to renew the State Pact against Gender Violence.
During a PP event on the occasion of 25N, the international day for the eradication of gender-based violence, Feijóo affirmed that “real feminism” and highlighted his party’s commitment against gender violence, recalling the measures adopted by the governments of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, as well as during his presidency in the Xunta de Galicia.
“Using the cause of women’s equality in a partisan manner is undoubtedly starting the house wrong, start with foundations that aren’t real and therefore not being able to build a very clear, strong and unequivocal movement of all citizens and especially of all political forces,” Feijóo recriminated.
