Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, claims the Gender Violence Law has done away with the concept of the presumption of innocence and unfairly targets men. And since 2003, 972 women have been killed as a result of gender violence, when femicides first started being officially recorded in the country. Related: Spain’s majority-female cabinet embodies women’s global rise to powerĪccording to government figures, 44 women have been murdered so far this year in Spain by their partners or in other cases of gender violence. More concretely, the government vowed to implement a piece of legislation titled, the State Agreement, a comprehensive framework that builds on the 2004 Gender Violence Law.

When Spain’s socialist government - made up of a majority of women, for the first time in the country’s history - took office last June, it declared that theirs was “a feminist cabinet.' They restored the previously disbanded Gender Ministry and made “gender equality” its no.

“At this time when chauvinists can feel under attack, they’re betting on a fight against those rights.” “It’s a reaction (and by that I mean a reactionary one) to the advances feminism has made in our society,” human rights lawyer Carla Vall i Duran said via email. Related: Prostitution takes center stage as Spanish feminists rally to eliminate violence against women While many ascribe Vox’s rise to unionists’ anger over Catalonia’s push for independence and a perceived surge in immigration, some suggest a reinvigorated feminist movement in Spain may also have played an important part. Until now, Spain had been one of the only European countries to withstand fascist incursions. One Twitter user sounded the alarm with the following tweet: “Andalusian women: welcome to The Handmaid’s Tale. The party also calls for the dissolution of federally funded feminist organizations the creation of a Family Ministry in lieu of the current Gender Ministry and removing sex change and abortion procedures from public health services.

Along with an extreme, anti-immigration agenda and pro-Spain stance (anti-Catalan independence), Vox strode in on an “anti-radical-feminist” platform - “radical feminism” being an attempt by women to subjugate men, according to party leaders.Ĭhief among Vox’s anti-feminist measures, as provided in a 100-point program, is the repeal of a 2004 Gender Violence Law designed to better protect women from domestic violence and better prosecute offenders. 2, a far-right party burst into Spanish politics for the first time since the country’s return to democracy in 1978, gaining 12 seats in Andalusia, Spain’s most populous region.

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