"If half of our population are women, logically half of the economic and political power corresponds to women", defended Pedro Sánchez, in the rallies that he held yesterday at noon in Jerez de la Frontera and in the afternoon in Badajoz, After the Council of Ministers approved and sent to Congress yesterday the new parity law that will impose the obligation that women occupy at least 40% of the composition of the Government, the boards of directors of the Ibex or the constitutional bodies, such as the Constitutional Court (TC) or the General Council of the Judiciary.
The First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño –who refuses to pose for the gallery in events without the presence of women–, presented this bill approved by the Council of Ministers as a new step for women to "break the glass ceiling" and reduce the “gender gap”.
And already in the final stretch of the 28-M campaign, Sánchez is expressly asking for the vote of women for the PSOE, as he also demands the vote of young people and also of the elderly and retirees, with the lever of the measures which is being approved by the Council of Ministers.
Up to 1.7 million 18-year-olds will be able to vote for the first time on Sunday, with the encouragement of the initiatives approved to promote the public rental housing stock and also subsidize the entry of the apartment they own, to facilitate their emancipation, the promotion of professional training or that they travel this summer through Europe and Spain with great discounts on trains or buses.
And up to 9.5 million people, over 65 years of age, will be able to benefit from a reduced price ticket of two euros to go to the cinema every Tuesday, according to another of the initiatives already approved by the Council of Ministers, together with the pension reform or its annual updating according to the CPI by law.
But women are more than half of the population in Spain: up to 24.3 million, compared to 23.3 million men, according to the INE. And they can decant elections. The President of the Government is putting the focus of this last week of the electoral campaign on them, specifically since the act that he starred in Valladolid last Sunday.
Despite the undesired effects of the law that only yes is yes, which lowered the sentences of more than a thousand sexual offenders and caused enormous social alarm, and the complaints from the classic feminist collectives for the approval of the trans law, or Because the compromised norm to abolish prostitution has not been promoted, Sánchez makes the flag of his feminist agenda.
The leader of the PSOE thus vindicates the labor reform and the creation of employment in Spain: "We have 9.6 million women, the never seen in the historical series, contributing to Social Security, and the lowest female unemployment rate in the last 15 years”, he highlighted yesterday in Badajoz. And he cried out against the fact that women "suffer salary and labor discrimination, in addition to sexist terrorism", for which he highlighted the approval, among others, of the law of equal salary between men and women or the new "conquest" with the norm about parity.
Sánchez assured that he did not know if the PP will also appeal this new law before the TC, but if so, he predicted the same failure as his appeal against Zapatero's abortion law, recently validated 13 years later.
The last meeting of the Council of Ministers before the appointment next Sunday with the municipal and regional polls also approved two other announcements by Sánchez in the campaign: the investment of 580 million euros to reinforce primary care and 38.5 million to attend Mental health.
Two measures that, according to the Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones, highlighted the Government's commitment to another emblem of its social democratic project: “Free, universal public health”.
