"Resounding and forceful", this is how UPY has shown itself upon learning that the candidate integrated, with number 6, in the YAS candidacy, headed by Jonatan Lemes, is a person who was convicted three years ago as "responsible author of a crime of mistreatment due to gender violence"; conviction that was also ratified by the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Lugo last October 2020.
"This type of circumstance or casuistry should not occur, and parties must have a filter that prevents people convicted of gender violence from running in an election," he admits. "Their behavior is not exemplary at all, and it must be taken into account that gender violence is a cyclical process that threatens the integrity, dignity and freedom of women, regardless of the area in which it occurs," he adds.
Therefore, once this matter has come to public light, "the new YAS party, and its leader Jonatan Lemes, as well as its mentor and promoter, Gladys Acuña, and other related candidates, such as Oswaldo Betancort and CC, are expected to condemn and disapprove of this member of the list, especially when it includes women whose academic training as lawyers and social workers enables them to understand this social problem, and they know in advance that gender violence is one of the three crimes with the highest rate of recurrence in the same type of crime," he makes clear.
"It constitutes an attack on democratic health and the necessary social peace"
"It constitutes an attack on democratic health and the necessary social peace, that people who have been sentenced for this type of violence, whose learned relationship strategy, and which reveals the brutal inequality between men and women, run on an electoral list, and aspire to govern Yaiza, therefore, we believe that citizens have the right to hear (sooner rather than later) an apology from Yaiza Siempre and its list leader," he concludes.
