More Madrid has presented in the Senate a total of 5,500 signatures in rejection of the anti-abortion summitwith the aim of trying to stop the event scheduled for December 2 in the Upper House. “Every time they put on women’s rights in the crosshairs of the extreme right, citizens respond and will continue to respond,” claimed Manuela Bergerot, spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Assembly.
The event is organized by Values Policy Networka far-right group chaired by José Antonio Kast, leader of the Chilean extreme right, known for his affinity with the Pinochet regime and his anti-abortion stance.
“We have collected 5,500 signatures to show the citizen rejection to a summit that only contributes to discredit the Senate as an institution. The Madrid of the feminist strikes and the massive demonstrations of March 8 cannot become the mecca of the reactionaries of two continents,” Bergerot claimed.
From Public has also been launched signature campaign to stop this act.
The ultra organization was authorized on July 17 to hold its VI Transatlantic Summit in a Senate room, in which parliamentarians from American, European and African countries that are against abortion “from the moment of conception.”
The PSOE did not oppose the transfer that day at the Table, not realizing what the PNfV network was defending, since the transfer of rooms to various associations is common, but it later voted against the minutes of that session in the next one, held on September 3, and presented a appeal for protection that was rejected by the four PP senators in the Table, compared to the three votes of the socialist senators.
Carla Antonelli, senator from Más Madrid, has announced that the party has presented “resources” so that this event “does not take place” and that they will not stop “until they reverse this shameful summit.” “The international and reactionary right, with the support of the Spanish right, wants the Senate to become a space for debate against a right like abortion. It is intolerable and the proof is the speed with which, in just a few days, these thousands of signatures have already been collected,” he noted.
Furthermore, according to Más Madrid, this organization also maintains that the homosexuality It is a “mental disorder” that can be treated with “therapy” and defends that marriage is exclusively an “institution between a man and a woman.”
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