Page will not distribute the fund against gender violence between the PP and Vox municipalities that ignore equality policies

The formation of municipal governments has brought about a clash between the PP-Vox and PSOE coalitions on behalf of the councils and equality policies. The positions of Santiago Abascal's party are seen by the socialists as a flank through which to try to erode the popular. And the first decisions begin to be made to establish a position before the citizens. Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, has warned that he will not give funds from the State Pact against Gender Violence to those consistories that ignore or do not comply with the regulations in force to fight against sexist violence.

“If here there are municipalities that are not willing to abide by the laws that are legitimately and democratically promulgated against sexist violence, what they cannot aspire to is having the funds available to maintain services in this regard.. The one goes with the other, or the law is assumed, or it is not assumed. It is not worth remaining ambiguous”, has been the warning of the regional president, during the inauguration in Toledo of the XXXV Security and Defense Seminar.

According to the resolution of March 16, 2023, of the Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence, which sets the distribution criteria and the resulting distribution for the year 2023 of the budget credits destined for development by the autonomous communities and cities of Ceuta and Melilla of the State Pact against Gender Violence, Castilla-La Mancha, for this year, corresponds a total amount of 8.7 million euros.

“We are and we have to be committed to two elementary things in this country. One, to strict compliance with the laws, especially those laws that you do not like and even that you have not approved, that is what the strength of a Rule of Law consists of.. Not in doing what you want, but in complying with what the majority decides,” Page reflected.

The regional president has wondered “who is committed to maintaining or who wants to remove the laws that exist in Spain that have had an enormous consensus because they have been voted with large majorities. Who wants to change the Law against sexist violence. Rhetoric is fine, it can serve to fish for votes, but what matters is who agrees to maintain it and who agrees to repeal it”, in a message that, without saying so, was addressed, above all, to the PP.