PSOE’s top of the list for Valladolid to Congress and Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has issued a call to the feminist movement to protect “what has taken so much to achieve” in the face of the PP’s proposal to abolish this department if it reaches government. Based on that idea, she has questioned the leader of the ‘popular’ party about whether they intend to open one “to advise those abusive mayors that they keep on their lists and who are very important people” for the party.
From Tudela de Duero (Valladolid), Redondo has defended that supporting the “Ministry is defending equality.” As she explained, “And equality is cross-cutting, but it needs a Ministry that is behind policies against gender-based violence, behind policies that narrow the wage gaps or the pensions gap or the employment gap. And we need a Ministry that defends women.”
At this point, she has censured that the “alternative” offered by PP and Vox is based on “hate, anti-Sanchism.” “That is their program, anti-Sanchism,” she said. Immediately afterward, she has insisted on her criticism: “Are they going to open a ministry to advise those abusive mayors that they keep on their lists and who are very important people for the Partido Popular, as Ayuso said yesterday? Well, if that is the alternative, then I appeal to women. We are going to defend what has taken so much.”
The minister has asked “not to take a step back,” something she believes “symbolize[s] the extreme right and the far right.” She has also again rejected the reproaches over the failure of the telematics bracelets and over the investigations opened in Europe in recent days.
On this issue, she has reiterated that the investigation focuses on a contract from the previous team and that “not a single woman” with this device has been murdered. “Pay close attention, don’t scare those victims because those victims need the devices to live safely,” she stressed, while calling the denial of misogynistic violence “State terrorism against women.”
Criticism of housing policy in Castilla y León
In terms of housing, Redondo has taken aim at the management of the Junta de Castilla y León, emphasizing that the region is the third autonomous community where housing has become more expensive the most, while salaries remain “lower.”
In his judgment, "The quality of life in Castile and León is worse than in the average of Spain. We are citizens who live worse than the average of Spain because of this inactivity of a Junta that has been governing for 40 years and 40 years with that management deficit."
For this reason, he has urged citizens to "compare" and "choose to vote" for what really "suits them and benefits them." In his opinion, what "benefits" is "good management, concern for people's rights, not for the business of a few. This Community has to defend a reasonable vote, not one of hate, a vote in favor of rights, which is the vote for the Partido Socialista Obrero Español," he concluded.