Podemos has taken advantage of the act with all of them. For all held this Saturday at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid to support Irene Montero after the hyperbolic personal attack deployed against her by Vox in Congress.
Shouting "All with Irene!" and "Enough of patriarchal justice!", the purple formation has populated the stage with personalities from the world of politics, law and journalism, among others, to shelter the Minister of Equality after involuntarily setting herself up in the piece to Beat the "political hunt" started by the ultra-right after the reduction in sentences for convicts caused by the entry into force of the controversial Organic Law 10/22 on the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom.
Montero has once again defended what is known as the law of only yes is yes because it protects all women who suffer sexual violence and has demanded feminist unity in the face of "political violence" that "will not stop", because "it is not a fight" but rather the "strategy" of the "political, judicial and media" right to stop the advances of the coalition government.
The aforementioned support has also been joined by former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former PSOE deputy in Madrid Carla Antonelli, as well as IU officials and former vice president Pablo Iglesias, present in the audience.
The act took place one day after the 25N and the demonstration called by the Feminist Movement of Madrid with the presence of PSOE ministers where shouts were heard calling for her resignation, the minister has appealed to the need for all feminists, despite to the diversity and even discrepancy that the movement presents, be "together and united" to "defend the advancement of rights."
"Political violence is a strategy for us to doubt ourselves, one another (...) so as not to generate networks of trust, of alliances. That is why it is important that compañeras use their power to raise their voices and defend the conquests of feminism", Montero appealed during his speech.
Montero has stressed that this campaign of "political violence" seeks to "destroy" her and other leaders, such as the former PSOE ministers Bibiana Aído and Leire Pajín, because it is not limited to "insults" but rather a plan by their adversaries to stop the group of feminism, discipline its leaders, and in which "media progressives" have also fallen.
The proof of this, Montero has recounted, is the "reaction of the extreme right" and of the PP, which said about the Vox incident: "who sows wind reaps storms." And it is that he has stressed that "she is not the first nor will she be the last" that this campaign suffers, to commemorate the reprisals during the Franco regime against left-wing women. "The adversaries are not going to stop", he has reaffirmed himself.
The Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has also taken the floor to warn that PP and Vox "hate more" the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, than they "hated Pablo Iglesias".
Interrupted on several occasions by applause and shouts of Yes we can and If they touch one of us, they touch us all, Montero has given way to a surprise intervention through a video in which the former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has left He clearly acknowledges the minister for the laws promoted, in the face of those who "insult", boast of their "machismo" and represent a "dark and gloomy past".
"We can boast of promoting the culture of rights, equality and the culture that advances society," stressed the former leader of the PSOE.
Carla Antonelli Antonelli, who recently left the ranks of the PSOE amidst criticism of the party's attitude towards the Trans Law, also addressed a few words to the audience to show her solidarity for the "attacks" and "violence" against "everything that comes out of the Ministry of Equality", even from those sectors of the left that do not assume that there is a coalition government. "I will always be grateful to you for your support for the Trans Law (...) All the hatred has fallen on your back," she exclaimed.
In this appointment to cover the head of Equality, Montero has received the support of his party with a multitude of cadres from Podemos but also from formations such as En Comú Podem (through his deputy Ismael Cortés) and the leader of IU and general secretary of the PCE , Enrique Santiago, in addition to the former deputy of the formation Willy Meyer. The lawyer and ex-charge of IU Cristina Almeida has also attended.
The influx to the event, convened in just 48 hours, has exceeded the forecasts of the organization. According to party sources, 400 people have filled the capacity of the room where the event was taking place, another 200 have been followed by monitors in an adjoining hall and 700 have remained outside, waiting to gain access to the venue, which has motivated that some purple leaders came out to thank them for their commitment to the Minister of Equality.
