The PSOE of Lanzarote has responded to what they consider "unfortunate statements" by the senator of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, in a media outlet last Monday, June 13. The socialists maintain that he pointed out that "the president of the Cabildo is absent from her obligations, that she has worked very little and that she is not the one who really presides over and commands the institution."
“In essence and in form, and lacking better arguments, Fernando Clavijo has brought out the macho he has inside to criticize the president of the Cabildo resorting to lies and trying to offend her, belittling her for the mere fact of being a woman,” said the spokesperson for the Insular Executive Commission of the PSOE of Lanzarote, Jenifer Galán Duarte.
“A condescending attitude from a clearly patriarchal role”
“It seems that misogyny is an evil that affects some male leaders of the Canarian Coalition such as Fernando Clavijo and his friend Pedro San Ginés, who find it difficult to accept the growing leading role of women and against whom they display aversion or lack of confidence in them, both within their own party and outside of it,” says Jenifer Galán.
Faced with these reprehensible attitudes, the spokesperson for the PSOE of Lanzarote reminds Fernando Clavijo, “in case he hasn't found out, that the world has just emerged from a pandemic.” "People stopped traveling and the island stopped, and, despite this, now all the economic and social indicators express that we are on the verge of full recovery thanks, among other things, to the dedication, leadership and vision of the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo,” added Galán.
Finally, Jenifer Galán recalls that the PSOE is a party "that defends equality and rejects discrimination based on sex or any other reason." "We find Fernando Clavijo's belittling comments unacceptable, which reveal a condescending attitude from a clearly patriarchal role: he simply does not accept that a woman, also a socialist, holds the democratic power of the main institution of Lanzarote,” concludes Galán.
