The municipal government of Valladolid, formed by the coalition between the Popular Party and Vox, has excluded victims of gender-based violence as beneficiaries of social rental housing. The measure, which was announced in May and also increased the minimum years of registration, seeks to extend the criterion reserved for victims of sexist violence to all those who have suffered violence in the family sphere.
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The Socialist Party of Castilla-La Mancha has denounced the decision of the Valladolid city council for affecting the scoring criteria, since the concept of domestic violence does not include women abused who do not live with their aggressor, and therefore the measure excludes victims of sexist violence. The socialist spokesperson, Pedro Herrero, has harshly criticized the local government’s justification, which assures that victims of gender-based violence are included in the concept of domestic violence “because domestic violence is a much broader concept.”
The PSOE assures that victims who have suffered sexist violence outside a family relationship remain unprotected
In this regard, the socialist assures that the law agreed 22 years ago states that gender-based violence is the violence exercised “by a man against a woman regardless of her marital status, kinship or cohabitation, and when that violence constitutes a manifestation of discrimination, inequality or power relations.”
However, domestic violence, he continued, “emphasizes the family or cohabitation relationship.” “In short, a woman victim of gender-based violence does not have to be a victim of domestic violence,” they have warned, so they affirm that the modification of the protocol “leaves women victims of this social scourge unprotected.”
In this regard, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has expressed her “deep concern” about the dismantling of equality policies in autonomous communities and city councils governed by PP and Vox, and has called the change “absolutely intolerable.”
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Redondo took the opportunity to criticize the management of the Community of Madrid, where, according to the minister, “it does not need Vox to dismantle equality policies.” In the words of the socialist, the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso is not processing many of the requests for economic aid intended for women victims of gender-based violence.
“I want to remind that these are resources that the Government of Spain directly delivers to the Autonomous Community so that absolutely essential economic resources for the daily life of many women who fight to move forward reach the victims,” she indicated.
“We are very concerned about this inconsistency of the Popular Party. It seems to us an insult to the victims and a lack of loyalty to the State pact from the Government and the Ministry, which we certainly will not allow,” she concluded.
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