The Vox Health Councilor, José Gosálbez, a member of the PP Government in the Valencia City Council led by Mayor María José Catalá, has included a sum of 6,000 euros in favor of the Valencian Association for the Defense of Life in the chapter of nominative subsidies from the municipal budgets for the year 2025 that will be approved this Tuesday in plenary session. Gosálbez already organized an anti-abortion talk for students last March.
The socialist councilor, Elisa Valía, recalled that in her day, Catalá repeatedly assured that she, as mayor, was never going to allow the extreme right to undermine the rights and freedoms of women: “She herself is the sister of a woman and the mother of a daughter, but the 2025 budgets represent explicit support from the mayor of Valencia to an entity that is dedicated to intimidating women, that is dedicated to harassing women who decide freely on his body,” Valía stated.
The PSPV councilor has demanded that Catalá eliminate the nominative subsidy to this entity because “it cannot sell the dignity of the city and because València does not deserve that the extreme right be the one that dictates the policies that affect women.”
As this newspaper reported, last March Gosálbez organized the ‘Meeting in Defense of Life in the City of Valencia’ before a group of schoolchildren, which was held at the Jubiocio municipal center, in the Benicalap neighborhood of the city.
The initiative sparked a significant controversy that worsened after it was learned that among the 200 attendees at the event there were 53 fourth-year ESO students and one high school student from the Inmaculada Corazón de María charter school for whom the City Council chartered a bus. The center confirmed to elDiario.es the presence of the students in the talk although they declined to make further comments. Precisely, one of the axes of the Government pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community was, supposedly, “getting the ideology out of the classrooms.”
As for the panel of speakers of the day, it was made up of the national deputy of Vox convicted of abuse and professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia Carlos Flores Juberías; the director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Belén Merck Navarro; and the professor of Bioethics and deputy to the Vice-Rector’s Office for Research at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Emilio García Sánchez.
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