Some two hundred people participated this morning in the march organized by the Sorority Feminist Self-Defense Association, seconded and supported by the political groups Ganar Archena and PSOE Archena.
The delegation has departed from the Municipal Sports Center, to arrive through the Avenida del Segura River, Carril and Calle de San Juan, to the Plaza de España, where a manifesto has been read by young people of the Association, in defense of gender equality, against the mistreatment of women and criticizing the unwelcome celebration of the act «The King of your House», considering that to this day the man already has many more privileges than the woman and does not need a day meaning to celebrate it.
On October 13 Ganar Archena made public his denounce of the act «The day of man, the king of your house», supported by the City of Archena, an act that we qualified as «macho» and «own of other times.» Since then, the social and media uproar that has been given to this event has been a lot, in spite of which the Mayor of Archena, Patricia Fernández, has maintained the support of the City Council of Archena, making use of the absolute majority that the Popular Party . Support of the consistory that has been maintained even when they have transcended some audios in which one of the organizers alluded to that day as «the day of the Iberian male», even opposing it to «the day of the woman or the day of the gay», as he himself affirms in said audios.
From Ganar Archena we understand that a social response was essential to show the discontent for the institutional support of exaltation of machismo from the institutions. It seems inconceivable to us that while there are hundreds of examples of institutions in favor of the feminist movements, our local government stands against the feminist movements with this act of exaltation of machismo.
For the socialists, in the words of its Secretary General and Spokesman, Gonzalo Caracena «This type of acts should not fit in today’s society, much less try to cover through public institutions any type of machismo with euphemisms to silence mouths» What he has added adds that «The Socialists have participated in this march because real equality does not consist of kings or princesses, but rather participation. And on issues of equality we can not take a step back. Only forward. »
A wine tasting to celebrate the King of your house
At the same time, the party ‘El rey de tu casa’ (The king of your house) began in the Villarrías garden of the town, where wines and tapas were distributed to the attendees, who enjoyed live music. Act that also attended some two hundred people and in which according to demonstrations of the organizers and councilors of the City Council has been an act for the whole family, in which there has been nothing of machismo, or incidents and that for reasons of political interest, It took out of its context days gone by, dealing a heavy blow to the prestige of our people before the national public opinion, and the media, something that the Archeneros do not deserve.