Aguirre does not see "the nominalist issue as fundamental" in the clash between PP and Vox over sexist violence

SPAIN / By Cruz Ramiro

The former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, has defended this Saturday that Vox calls “intrafamily violence” what the PP calls gender violence.

“They call it domestic violence, we call it gender violence and there will be others who call it something else.. I don't think the nominalist issue is fundamental”, Aguirre stated after being asked about the denial of the number 2 of Vox in the Valencian Community of the existence of sexist and gender violence.

When asked about this question after attending the investiture of José Luis Martínez-Almeida as mayor of Madrid, this time with an absolute majority, Aguirre has placed the “unity of Spain” as “fundamental” and has charged against the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, for his statements about Bildu in which, he stated, “he has done more for the Spaniards and for Spain than all the jingoists with their wristbands have done”. The delegate apologized a few hours later for these words.

Asked about the pacts between PP and Vox, the president of the national PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has defended, marked some “clear guidelines” that were that those who could best know the conditions of each territory were its barons and candidates for the presidency.

In this framework, he has defended that they act “differently” depending on the region. “I would like in these elections, in which I am so happy because the PP is going to have many capitals…. That one of the cities I visit the most is Barcelona, I hope that the populist and anti-system mayor – in reference to Ada Colau – and that there will be another constitutionalist mayor, like Jaume Collboni (PSC candidate), but without Colau”, he concluded