The PSOE has proposed this Friday that a minute of silence continue to be observed for the victims of gender violence at the beginning of the plenary sessions, as Loli Corujo already carried out during her mandate. The spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, has proposed that the plenary sessions begin with the reading of the number of women murdered, victims of gender violence, and that a minute of silence be observed as a "show of condolence and respect" towards the victims and "of rejection" towards their murderers.
Ariagona González has lamented that in the plenary sessions of Oswaldo Betancort's presidency, "this practice, consolidated during Loli Corujo's presidency, has been abandoned".
"Public institutions must play a fundamental role in the eradication of criminal machismo through active policies of protection for women but also in the symbolic space, combating the denial complicit in that violence", explained González after recalling that gender violence has caused in Spain "the death of 1,212 women from January 1, 2003 to the present day".
"Gender violence has caused in Spain the death of 1,212 women from January 1, 2003 to the present day"
"It is a shocking count that takes on an even greater dimension if one considers that, in most cases, death is the last and irreversible episode of years of violence", González pointed out, expressing her "deep concern" that the firm steps that Spain has taken against criminal machismo "are being compromised by the denial attitude of the far right, which has also managed to impose its agenda in the institutions in which Vox's votes have been decisive for the PP".
"I trust that the pact with Vox that Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular have reached in Teguise will not condition the support of these forces for this proposal", concluded the councilor.