President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner expressed their solidarity with the Minister of Equality of Spain, Irene Montero, who was the victim of verbal attacks during a debate on budgets for her portfolio in the Congress of that country.
“Political and sexist violence against women is intolerable, and we must strongly repudiate it every time it happens. All our solidarity with Minister Montero, the victim of cruel attacks today,” the head of state wrote on his Twitter account.
Political and sexist violence against women is intolerable, and we must strongly repudiate it every time it happens. All our solidarity with the minister @irenemonterovictim today of cruel attacks. pic.twitter.com/2GhEnSGfPm
– Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) November 23, 2022
The vice president, meanwhile, replied to a message that Montero herself had delivered in Congress and that she uploaded to her networks, entitled “Enough of political violence.”
Along the same lines, the Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzina, stated that “in a democracy, disagreements are resolved with debate, ideas and arguments. Political violence is never the way.”
“My solidarity with Montero. We know that the arrogance that we are prosecuted is the irreverence that we need to win more rights,” he added from his Twitter account.
In his message in the Spanish parliament, Montero had requested that “the political violence that is being exercised at this moment in the seat of popular sovereignty be incorporated into the session journal so that it is not erased, so that no one comes after me , so that everyone can remember political violence and those who carry it out”.
“And also, so that it can be known that feminists and democrats are more and we are going to stop this band of fascists with more rights,” Montero completed.
enough of political violence pic.twitter.com/5SM51tkqNh
— Irene Montero (@IreneMontero) November 23, 2022
The deputy Carla Toscano, from Vox, had affirmed that Montero’s only merit is “having studied Pablo Iglesias in depth” -his partner and founder of Podemos-, which led to the repudiation of the United Podemos legislators to the cry of ” shame, shame”, “it’s not no” and “not everything is worth it”, according to the DPA news agency.
On the bench of other groups such as PSOE, ERC or Ciudadanos, expressions of gravity and mute astonishment were seen, while Toscano’s colleagues stood up applauding with laughter.
The President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, expressed for his part on Twitter that “we are together against sexist violence. Denying it is a way of exercising it. Raising it on the rostrum of Congress is crossing an intolerable line. We will continue forward with conviction and determination. Everything my support, Irene Montero”.
We are together against sexist violence. Denying it is a way of exercising it. To put her on the rostrum of Congress is to cross an intolerable line.
We will move forward with conviction and determination.
All my support, @IreneMontero.
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) November 23, 2022
