The Secretary of Equality asks for “all the mandatory apologies” after joking concerning the reductions in sentences


Ángela Rodríguez has instructed journalists that she feels “harassed” after her ironic feedback. She assures that the statements had been made in a context “for sarcasm” and that her irony was directed on the excessive proper, not on the victims

In an interview with TVG, after taking part in a day of affective-sexual variety on the Galician Security Academy in A Estrada (Pontevedra), Rodríguez as soon as once more emphasised that the combat in opposition to sexist violence is his precedence.

“How am I going to assume that one can frivolize” with the victims of sexist violence?, she has noticed that public tv, after remembering that she herself was one, and differentiating between a severe discussion board and a podcast the place “there was an area for sarcasm” by being conceived as a form of reduction from the “assaults we undergo” from the acute proper.

Hence this “sure irony”, the secretary has emphasised to counter the criticism acquired for just a few phrases through which she reproaches that the “excessive proper” is throwing “rapists on the road” of their face.

“From the creators of ‘People are going to go to the registry to vary their intercourse each morning’ comes… ‘Rapists on the streets!’ (…) Thousands, waves”, is a part of what Rodríguez commented on that recording and laughing.

If separating the talk on victims and the dialog concerning the arguments of the acute proper has been “misguided”, he has requested for “pardon”.

In any case, he has attributed the “noise” of as of late to a “manipulation”, additionally “media”, and has declared that he’s clear that all the things associated to the victims of sexist violence shouldn’t be a trigger “of laughter neither is it a trigger for enjoyable “, being a matter incompatible with any “sort of mockery”.

“My dedication is definitely verifiable,” he insisted.

And, relating to the criticisms pronounced by some socialist ministers, he has replied that he would agree with them if what he addressed in that particular context was the issue of the victims, one thing that, he has reiterated, shouldn’t be the case.

Before talking on TVG, Rodríguez didn’t permit the press gathered in A Estrada to have the choice of asking him questions on it.

“I really feel harassed”, that’s what she has indicated to the journalists current there after colliding with one of many columns of the middle the place she is taking part within the aforementioned discussion board this morning.