Feijóo warns the PSOE and Podemos that he will not accept "lessons" in equality and that he will defend it in its decisions and policies

Reminds the Government of the "dire" consequences of the 'yes is yes' law that even the UN has spoken about without anyone having resigned

MADRID, 6 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has warned the PSOE and Podemos this Tuesday that he will not accept "lessons" in terms of equality after the trajectory of his formation that, according to what he has said, has been "a participant in all the great legislative and international progress on equality". After emphasizing that the Government promoted the so-called 'only yes is yes' law, which has had "dire consequences" for women, he stressed that the PP will support equality between men and women in all its decisions and policies.

"I tell you that we are not going to accept lessons from anyone on equality and we are not going to take a step back to defend the effective equality of women and men," Feijóo proclaimed at the meeting of the Regional Board of Directors of the Andalusian PP held in Seville, where the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, also spoke.

Feijóo has spoken like this after the criticism from PSOE and Podemos of his proposal to reduce ministries, recalling that the Ministry of Equality in the past "was a department within another ministry." Given these words, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has said that the leader of the PP wants to "discipline" feminism by proposing to eliminate his Ministry, while the spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, has indicated that "whoever does not defend the cause of equality will answer to the citizens".

In her speech, Feijóo alluded to the fact that the UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Al Salem, concluded that the 'yes is yes' law should have been consulted more to avoid its negative consequences. As she has added, the PP has already "warned" of the "dire consequences" of this rule and "ordered it to stop."

However, the leader of the Popular Party has assured that "the arrogance of the Government led to more than a thousand reductions in the sentences of rapists and pedophiles and to more than a hundred releases" of sexual offenders.

"And instead of apologizing, instead of resigning, instead of leaving or instead of dismissing them by the President of the Government, they intend to give us lessons in equality policies. And we are not going to allow lessons in equality policies, in defense policy of women or in defense policy for minors", he warned.

In this sense, he has said that Spain "does not need" that the Minister of Equality and her Secretary of State dedicate themselves to "taking tourist selfies in New York" and "implanting their sectarian arrogance", approving laws "against equality real and effective of women".

In his opinion, what Spain needs are "authentic equality policies, with sufficient resources, with inclusive measures that integrate everyone in this fight and not create factions of good and bad." It is, he has continued, to fight "resolutely against the scourge of sexist violence."

"And the Popular Party has been a participant in all the great legislative and international advances in terms of equality. In Spain, we have been fighting for these approaches for 40 years and we are not going to accept lessons from anyone in terms of equality," he added.

Having said this, the head of the opposition has criticized that Pedro Sánchez's strategy involves "insulting" the PP "every day" and "telling lies" as, in his opinion, "they have been doing for five years". In his understanding, it is because they are "desperate".