In precept, the favored delegation is not going to have members of the nationwide management who would select to be in different demonstrations exterior MadridThe inner debate on the advisability of being current on the demonstrations in Madrid has been intense within the celebrationIn Genoa they think about that they’re “comfy” with the 8M for the primary time in its historical past towards the PSOE and Podemos that may attend the feminist demonstrations divided
The Popular Party has been cultivating its most feminist profile for weeks, pushed by the tailwind supplied by the trickle of reductions in sentences from the ‘solely sure is sure’ legislation and which bleeds the federal government of Pedro Sánchez, the opposition shared with feminism. traditional to the trans legislation and the images with prostitutes of ‘Tito Berni’ within the Mediator case.
For the primary time in historical past, the PP believes that they’re in a way more comfy place than the PSOE with respect to 8M. To the purpose that in Genoa they’re dedicated to being within the feminist demonstration in Madrid, though with a low profile. Without illustration of the nationwide management, though of deputies and senators. They is not going to attend the bulk organized by the 8M Madrid Commission aligned with Unidas Podemos and Minister Irene Montero, however they may take part within the various protest known as by the Madrid Feminist Movement with which they’ve held numerous conferences in current weeks. They may even have a presence within the 8M of the remainder of the nationwide territory. “The most traditional factor is that we’re in all of them, together with the one in Madrid,” they verify to NIUS from the Feijóo surroundings.
“It is probably the most troublesome 8M within the historical past of the PSOE. Go to the demonstration, go, what banner are you going to take? They will go to make an apology, to not ask for rights”, these identical sources ask themselves whereas they boast about how for Feijóo’s PP feminism has stopped being an issue to grow to be an electoral asset in a yr marked by the polls.
Who was going to inform the left that as unemployment and the CPI rise, the PP would like to speak about feminism and equality insurance policies?
“It is by far probably the most difficult yr for the left by way of defending ladies’s rights and, alternatively, the PP is extraordinarily comfy with this debate. Who was going to inform the left that as unemployment and the CPI rise, the PP would like to speak about feminism and equality insurance policies?
So a lot in order that yesterday his boss Alberto Núñez Feijóo introduced President Pedro Sánchez as a “macho” as a result of he doesn’t apply parity in his arduous core of Moncloa and presides over an Executive that has taken “the most important step again within the protection of girls” . This whereas he boasted of the service sheet of the Popular Party governments relating to points resembling Gender Violence or equality.
In current years, the PSOE and Podemos needed to instrumentalize the 8M towards the PP.
🔴 This yr they wish to instrumentalize it towards one another. pic.twitter.com/TIQTW0i10p
– Popular Party (@ppopular) March 6, 2023
“Feminism have to be actually demonstrated. We don’t just like the feminism of the banner, we don’t take part in feminism as a thrown weapon inside society ”, Feijóo screwed surrounded by ladies in an act in protection of equality in Cáceres collectively together with his candidate for the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola.
Intense debate and dangerous guess
The inner debate on the advisability of being current on the demonstrations in Madrid has been intense. In Genoa they know that it’s a dangerous guess as a result of they’re uncovered to criticism from some feminists who demand the resignation of Minister Irene Montero and the disapproval of President Pedro Sánchez -so far good- however in addition they cry out towards the “neoliberal insurance policies of cuts and privatization ” by Isabel Díaz Ayuso by way of well being as a result of “they harm the lives of girls”. (You can learn the manifesto of the Feminist Movement of Madrid right here).
The basic secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, who three years in the past did attend the 8M demonstration, now alleges that her agenda could be very difficult. “If I can go to 1, I’ll go,” she says, clearing the ball. Popular leaders such because the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, defend that his celebration attend the 8M demonstrations regardless of being “instrumentalized” by the left. And then there may be Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The president of the Community of Madrid has all the time been very important of the feminist motion and this time it was not going to be much less. “These demonstrations don’t signify me. More after they name with a mop and a brush ”, she declared yesterday, sporting a piece helmet and later laughing on the parity legislation that the Council of Ministers approves this Tuesday. She even joked that her authorities may very well be extra equal if her advisers modified their intercourse. “We could have Enriqueta López or Enriqueta Ossorio,” she ironized.
The hitherto difficult relationship of the PP with 8M
In 2018, Mariano Rajoy’s PP branded the 8M feminist strike as “unsupportive” and “elitist” whereas accusing them of “searching for confrontation” and even “breaking the Western society mannequin”.
In 2019 with Pablo Casado on the head of Genoa and on the eve of the April basic elections, the favored ones tried to get nearer to the feminist motion with little success and after a barrage of criticism they lastly gave up going to the demonstrations on the event of International Women’s Day. Women.
In 2020 they participated for the primary time within the 8M demonstration in Madrid. The identical one through which the deputy mayor Begoña Villacís was expelled. There have been Cuca Gamarra because the particular person in control of social insurance policies of the PP, the then spokesperson Marta González and the deputy Marimar Blanco going considerably unnoticed as a result of they weren’t well-known. Ayuso and Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo as an alternative selected to skip the sport script and attacked the feminist motion.
Ayuso accuses Podemos of creating an “8M stick for dicks”
In 2021 (as a result of pandemic) and in 2022 the favored leaders have been fouled once more. Ayuso was left over as soon as once more. “That posh 8M with out accountability will not be going to inform me do issues,” he mentioned final yr on the Madrid Assembly.
Until right this moment. Ayuso has lowered the tuning fork and yesterday he went as far as to say that he has “all the time” revered her 8M regardless that it “doesn’t signify her”, in order to not collide with Feijóo’s feminist discourse.
In Genoa they benefit from the spectacle of seeing how on this event criticism will rain down on the socialist authorities ministers, identified by Podemos within the majority demonstration in Madrid for voting with the PP and Vox for the reform of the ‘solely sure is sure’ legislation. and criticized by feminists who oppose the Trans legislation within the various focus known as by the feminist motion in Madrid.
“They tried to make March 8 towards the PP and now they’re going to make an 8M of the socialists towards Podemos and people of Podemos towards the socialists. This is how the story ends ”, Feijóo cried yesterday.