"It is not another 8-M," they say in the PP. International Women's Day, which will be celebrated next Wednesday, is seen on Génova street as an opportunity to occupy a place in the feminist space, whose flag the PSOE and especially United We Can wanted to fly exclusively. That flag, in the opinion of the popular leadership, is now an element of wear and tear for these parties, while it gives the PP an opportunity to demonstrate that it is in a position to compete and claim the "effective and non-fictitious equality" that it has always defended. , but that the "feminist left" prevented her from showing.
The difference, according to PP sources, is that while other years the feminist left has tried to expel the PP and Cs from the demonstrations and the celebration of Women's Day, this year, in addition to the division within the left, Due to the different points of view on the trans law or the law of only yes is yes, Unidas Podemos and the PSOE, in the opinion of the popular, can only go to the demonstrations “to ask for forgiveness”.
The popular ones consider that Unidas Podemos cannot be a guarantor of the feminist struggle when the reduction of sentences due to the law has benefited 600 sexual offenders, of which 60 have taken to the streets. They maintain that not only the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, must apologize for the fiasco of this law, but also the PSOE for the Mediator case, uncovered these weeks and which affects one of its deputies, Juan Bernardo, until a week ago. Sources.
In the PP they also consider that this 8-M will be completely different. The day before, the consideration of the reform of the law of the only yes is yes to increase the prison sentences for sexual offenders is debated in Congress and, for the moment, there is no agreement between the two coalition partners . This debate will take place, on the other hand, when the investigation commission on Tito Berni raised by the PP is on the table, "which supposes that in Congress they have been with a catalog of prostitutes, choosing", with which Podemos will have It is very difficult not to support this commission, at a time, they conclude, "when there is no room for equidistance due to an ideological or sectarian issue."
What they are convinced of in the PP is that after this "nothing will be the same" in the feminist space, and that the female vote will not only go in one direction. United We Can, they say in the PP, can no longer want to expel us from that claim, as they have tried tirelessly. The last time, they remember, putting the PP against the wall by accelerating the ruling on abortion in the Constitutional Court, "that went wrong" because Alberto Núñez Feijóo liquidated the debate assuming the current law of deadlines, although he shows his doubts that the minors can abort without parental knowledge.
With this approach, the PP will celebrate 8-M as it does every year. Borja Sémper already mentioned at the beginning of the week that his affiliates will demonstrate with "freedom" and "naturalness". In fact, the popular ones will go to the demonstrations organized for that day, but they already warn that "they will not go behind a banner" nor do they have the objective of looking for a photo "with an accumulation of popular charges in the concentration."
For this reason, Sémper claimed a few days ago that the "anger" of feminism with the Pedro Sánchez government does not translate into insults or "aggression" against the members of the PSOE who attend the demonstrations, "unlike what happened in the past with other formations”. At the moment, he has learned that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will be in Extremadura on Monday celebrating Women's Day with an act with party candidates. The PP has not clarified which demonstration its leaders will attend, although it is foreseeable that they will join the one that is contrary to the trans law.
In addition, Feijóo's party is preparing an agenda of meetings before and after March 8 to discuss the proposals with which it intends to broaden women's rights. They want to do it discreetly, according to popular sources, with the idea of "being able to join the feminist banner", but without "hogging attention".
