The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, showed himself “very concerned” by the message that the PSOE transmits to society in its management of the Francisco Salazar case, according to which feminism is a “removable pin” which is placed during the “vote” but which is “kept in a drawer when it is time to remove a colleague” from the party reported for sexual harassment.
“That when it is good, when it gives points, when it gives votes, the Socialist Party is part of feminism, but when it is difficult, when it is time to apply the protocol to remove a colleague,” he noted. “It’s better to put feminism in a drawer.”
He does the same when it comes to “defending the minister from a legal offensive like that suffered by the Solo Si Es Si law”, added Belarra, because there, the Socialist Party “thinks that the president’s friends, aged 40 and 50, feel too uncomfortable.
He therefore expressed that he could not share this “way of acting” of the PSOE in the Francisco Salazar case, because feminism must be applied “when it is easy to do and when it is difficult”, and in this sense, they assured that they would promote, both within institutions and internally, “feminist public policies that truly protect women from all sexual violence which, unfortunately, is everywhere”.
Belarra made these statements on the occasion of her participation in Puebla de la Calzada, Badajoz, in a concert of the group Sanguijuelas del Guadiana, accompanied by the candidate of United by Extremadura to the presidency of the Council, Irene de Miguel, during the next regional elections on December 21.
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