The Minister for Equality assures that “feminism is the main democratic impulse”
The Minister of Equality, Irene Monterohas lamented that women “always” have been denied the exercise of power “for the fact of being women”, but has extolled that the feminist movement “is being the main democratic impulse in the entire world”.
This has been stated at the International Feminist Meeting, ‘We call it feminism. Feminism for a better world’, that has been held in Madrid, and that has concluded this Sunday with the closure of the minister, together with Irina Karamanos and the writer Rita Segato.
“To women something we are constantly reminded that we do not have enough power to do what we want, not even to make decisions about our own body,” he said.
In this sense, she has celebrated that the current international feminist movement “has a clear will to power”, understood as the collective capacity to make decisions in all institutional spaces and also those spaces furthest away from the institutions, he has detailed.
“The important thing is not that there are more women in the institutions. What is relevant is that there are feminists in them, who understand that the role we have is part of a popular process that has to do with transforming life,” she highlighted.
Likewise, Irene Montero, asked about the far right reactions to feminist policies, has argued that they are more and that criticism from the opposition supposes “reactions to victories”.
“We are more and we are winning because if not, there would be no reaction. However, that reaction means that they kill us cruelly and that they exercise political violence against us that destroys lives. I think we must not forget that they are reactions and that we are taking decisive steps, conquering rights and putting deep transformations at the center of the social debate”, he specified.