Iglesias comes out in support of Montero: "not wanting to see" rape culture in PP campaigns is "being very miserable"

MADRID, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Former Vice President Pablo Iglesias has criticized today that "not wanting to see" in institutional campaigns deployed by the PP "the culture of rape is not having eyes in your face or being very miserable."

This has been indicated on social networks in relation to the controversy surrounding the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who this morning accused the PP of "promoting the culture of rape that calls into question the credibility of the victims". giving as an example the campaigns against gender violence that the 'popular' governments have launched in autonomous communities such as Galicia or the Community of Madrid.

"It shouldn't happen but it does happen... So don't go running at night, don't wear a top, don't drink, don't go home alone because they can rape you. Not wanting to see in these institutional campaigns of the PP the culture of rape is not having eyes in your face or being very miserable", Iglesias has launched on social networks.

The Minister for Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has joined Montero and has accused the PP of "promoting the culture of rape" with campaigns such as that of the Xunta de Galicia that "blames the victim of sexual assault ".

For his part, the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, has also denounced the culture of rape with a message in which he quotes an article published on the UN Women website entitled: 'Sixteen ways to confront the culture of rape'.

Then, various positions and deputies of Podemos in Congress have reproached the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, for calling the head of Equality to order and having decided to withdraw that reference from the plenary minutes, justifying that it is a term coined with the UN and that they appreciate in institutional campaigns launched in Madrid and Galicia.

These statements by the minister have provoked protests from the parliamentary group that have stopped the session for almost two minutes in which they have asked Montero to retract these words.

And before this episode, Batet has reproached Montero that the expressions used in his speech are not "adequate in parliamentary terms addressed to a parliamentary group", in a situation, that of the presidency of the lower house reprimanding a representative of the Government , which is exceptional.

On the controversy, the spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has indicated in statements to Cuatro, collected by Europa Press, that the "culture of rape" is a UN definition that refers to sociological behaviors that " revictimizes the victims" of sexual assaults and that these campaigns of the PP is a "manual" behavior with the meaning of this term.

Therefore, he has supported Montero since by "Aristotelian logic" if the PP carries out such campaigns, it is "true" that they promote these attitudes and has described as "unheard of" that Batet "does not know this concept" and has withdrawn it from the newspaper of sessions of Congress.

It is not the first time that the confederal space criticizes Batet, with whom the relationship has eroded considerably after the withdrawal of the seat of former deputy Alberto Rodríguez. And it is that yesterday he denounced a "vacuum of authority" and "power", in the face of Vox's behavior against progressive formations.

In turn, the purple deputy Isabel Franco has branded as "unacceptable" that the president of the chamber withdraw the words of the Minister of Equality, because it refers to a concept of the UN (culture of rape) and that they detect in " campaigns of the PP in Galicia and Madrid".

"With this, he collaborates with the extreme right in political violence and the culture of rape," he launched through social networks.

His fellow bench member Pedro Honrubia has also criticized Batet's attitude, who "doesn't even flinch" when PP deputies call Montero "useless" in the rostrum, but calls the minister to order for saying that the PP campaigns, which they put the "focus on the victims" of sexual assaults, it is "rape culture". "Shame", he has blurted out.

"Rape culture is a term used by the UN and those words of the minister cannot be withdrawn from the Journal of Congress Sessions. It is no longer that they consent to some parliamentary groups that insult with impunity. It is that we are going backwards in consensus," has criticized the deputy spokesperson for United We Can, Sofía Castañón.