Spain's snap election is currently in deadlock, but in the region of Valencia, the Popular Party has already formed a government with far right Vox, where it wants to repeal gender-based violence laws
eronica remembers feeling enraged when she heard José María Llanos, a leader from Spain’s far right Vox party from Valencia, openlyThe 42-year-old has spent the past decade embroiled in a tense legal battle against her ex-husband, whom she divorced in 2014 after he subjected her to years of abuse and violence, she tells TIME. Even after she separated from him, she says he once punched her in public and threatened to “destroy her life,” according to court documents seen by TIME.
These courts were created after Spain passed a world-first gender-based violence law in 2004 that made the survivor’s gender an aggravating factor in assault cases. They have dealt with nearly 2 million complaints and convicted at least 700,000 people—72% of whom were men—according to a 2021But Veronica now worries about what Spain’s general election on Sunday could mean for women like her.
While Valencia offers a blueprint for what a PP-Vox government could look like across Spain, it also serves as a model for how many women are pushing back against the far right’s policies toward women.
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