There are thousands of people who They demonstrate in Madrid this 25-NInternational Day for Elimination of Violence against Women. The first march through the city center, called by the Madrid Forum and the Women’s Council, started first, at 12 noon. In it was the new Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, accompanied by other members of the party, such as the president of Congress, Francina Armengol; the ministers Pilar Alegría and Reyes Maroto; the minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska; the Secretary of Equality, Andrea Fernandez; or the president of the Congressional Equality Commission, Carmen Calvo. It was this, and not the one called by the 8M Commission, that was chosen to march for the socialists.
“It doesn’t matter where we demonstrate,” the Minister of Equality stressed before the media, ensuring that “all people are essential” in this fight and appealing “to unity.” “I I compare it to a big orchestra: there are different tones, different instruments, different sensitivities… but the important thing is that this feminist melody, and against all types of violence towards women, is heard loud and clear as the soundtrack of a democratic society.”
It’s over. This 25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, is not and cannot be just another day, although every day we tirelessly appeal to eradicate this violence.
There have been 1,237 femicides in Spain since 2003. They are killing us for being… pic.twitter.com/b3hUe0FTxO
— Francina Armengol (@F_Armengol) November 25, 2023
“We are a deeply feminist country and society, with a feminist government. We must fight against those who want to return us to the cave or justify violence against women. Not one step back from that,” continued Redondo, who received applause and She has also been rebuked, from a distance, by some woman. “Montero was right!” one of her yelled at him as she walked behind the ‘Free and Equal Women’ banner.
2,000 people
Under the motto Against violence against women, citizen unity and institutional response, the march started at 12 in the morning from Gran Vía and ended around two in the afternoon in Plaza de España. There was the header, andThe UGT and CCOO block, and the marchers carrying banners calling for the abolition of prostitution or shouting that pornography must be “abolished.” considering that “it is a school of inequality, sexism and violence” that cannot fix education.
This is how Ángeles Álvarez, former PSOE deputy and one of the organizers, describes it, who sees it as normal that the socialists have marched with them. “They have come every year. We are neither happy nor not happy,” she stated.
In between they have walked 93 women dressed in white tunics and masks, the same number of “women murdered so far this year.” Each of them carried a sign with the name, age and origin of those women. One of those participants, Ana Juez, explained to El Periódico de España, from the Ibérica Prensa Group, that they come from various points in Madrid. They have organized themselves through WhatsApp groups because they wanted all these victims “to be present” so that “this situation does not become normalized.”
Along the way there have been batucada and people coming together to demonstrate against violence. In total there were about 2,000, according to the Government Delegation, among which were Carmen Puig. “I have been coming to every demonstration in defense of women for years,” she said, expressing concern about the rise in murder rates.
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Elvira, Pepi and María Jesús have also been there, three women who Every day on the 25th of the month they gather in Plaza del Sol to ask for an end to violence against women.. They’ve been coming to this one for years. They point out that one of the issues that worries them most is that each time the age of the aggressors is lower, or the denialism of the sexist violence. They regret that, to end all this, there is no single march.
Manifest
At around 1:30 p.m. the head of the demonstration reached Plaza de España, the end of the march, where the organization read the manifesto that emphasizes, for example, that “More than 30% of the protection measures requested in the courts for women and their daughters and sons are denied“; that “25% of those murdered in 2023 had reported it, one or more times, even with measures in force in several cases”; or that “40% of the women murdered by their partners or ex-partners in 2023 had not been born in Spain, when the female migrant population is 10%.” “The uptick in femicides is worrying,” they said. The socialist ministers and representatives did not hear it: all of them abandoned the march halfway through.