Palma: PP attacks ‘sí es sí’ law ahead of Spain vote

Palma, Mallorca: the People’s Party (PP) is putting women’s protection at the centre of its campaign for Spain’s 29 November general election. At a pre-election event on Wednesday, 11 November, senior PP politician Cuca Gamarra said women would no longer be harmed by government laws if Alberto Núñez Feijóo became prime minister.

Gamarra singled out the law known as sí es sí — “yes means yes”. In her view, it had allowed rapists and men who abused women to return to the streets. She also accused the government of using women to win votes. Those were Gamarra’s political claims, not findings established at the event.

Marga Prohens, the Balearic president and the PP’s leader in the islands, also attended. Gamarra said a Feijóo government would follow Prohens’s example by passing laws to help families balance work and private life and share responsibilities.

Prohens pointed to her government’s regional work-life balance law and free education for children aged 0 to 3. She said those measures had countered what she called fear-driven claims about her party. Gamarra said voters would judge the political responsibility for the sí es sí law on 29 November.

Topics: Social affairs · Politics · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com