Irene Montero defends that parity is having feminists in the institutions

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The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has warned that in order to achieve parity in the administrations it is necessary for “feminists to fill the institutions”, a note that comes after the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a Representation law parity in decision-making bodies.

One of the two 8M demonstrations in Madrid charges against the “anti-feminist” policies of the Government

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“If we do not have feminist women in the institutions, it happens that we can believe that it is a feminist advance that Ayuso is president of the Community of Madrid”, Montero stressed this Saturday in an act on the occasion of International Women’s Day organized by Podemos for four days of 8M, in which she has been accompanied by the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra.

Montero has indicated that the priority of Podemos “is not that a few women manage to burst the glass ceilings”, but rather that “even the most crushed woman” do so, for which, in her opinion, public conciliation policies are necessary or the end of the wage gap, among other social advances.

The reform of the ‘only yes is yes’ law

The Minister for Equality has also had words for the socialist proposal to reform the ‘only yes is yes’ law that will be debated in Congress next Tuesday and has been convinced that there is still room for agreement with the PSOE.

“We have to reach an agreement so that on March 7 the return to the Penal Code of the Pack is not voted in Congress,” defended Montero, who has asked not to give PP and Vox “the opportunity to add their votes to the PSOE to go back on the rights we have won in this legislature.

Irene Montero has shown herself willing to “respond” to the reductions in sentences and releases that some judges are ruling after the extension of the ‘only yes is yes’ law, although she has warned that “this response has to be feminist” .

The “feminist advances” of the Government

For her part, the Minister for Social Rights, Ione Belarra, stressed that “the Government has to stop following the bells that the right-wing puts on it”, and has celebrated the “feminist advances” of the Government achieved, in her words, by the push of Podemos.

“Many thought that after Pablo Iglesias Podemos would disappear, and yet this feminist and choral team has shown that things that they said were impossible can be done,” she claimed.

Both ministers have encouraged women to “overflow the streets” next 8M to demonstrate “that we are more and that we are not going to take a step back”, in the words of Montero, who has warned that “no right is guaranteed” even if it is published in the Official State Gazette.

In this sense, the Minister of Equality has criticized that Ayuso has opened the door to repeal the LGTBI and trans law of the Community of Madrid, and has warned that this will not be the last challenge for feminism during the election year.

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