Pedro Blanco claims the Government’s commitment to recognize economic violence as male violence in the new State Pact

The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, stressed today that the recognition of economic violence as yet another form of male violence constitutes “a great success of the Government of Spain and an essential step to guarantee the integral protection of women victims of gender violence.” This was stated during the inauguration of the technical day held in the Government Delegation in the framework of the Open Administration Week, focused on the analysis of this form of violence, which was taught by the delegate of the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT), Miguel Cárcaba Menéndez, and by the chief inspector of the AEAT in A Coruña, Irene Lage.

Thus, Pedro Blanco stressed that the new State Pact against Gender Violence, in which the Ministry of Equality works, will explicitly include economic violence as a recognized typology of gender violence for the first time. “Not all violence leaves visible marks, but that does not make them less destructive,” she said, assuring that “denying a woman access to her resources or controlling her income is also violence and therefore we have to act.”

In this regard, the government delegate reported that the Government of Spain, through the Ministry of Equality, is taking decisive steps to ensure that no woman is left unprotected against forms of economic control that perpetuate inequality and dependence. In this regard, some of the measures provided for in the new State Pact were advanced and that, in addition to the legal characterization of economic violence as a recognized form of gender violence, includes the strengthening of judicial surveillance on the payment of pensions and economic duties, the creation of agile mechanisms for the seizure of goods and incomes to ensure compliance with economic duties or specialized training in economic violence for professionals in the judicial, police, social and fiscal fields.

Pedro Blanco appealed to “not to lower our arms” before the speeches that seem to look with nostalgia to the times in which the economic control of men over women was part of the social norm and affirmed that “this Government will not take a single step backwards in the integral support of women victims of gender violence, in any of its typologies.”

Finally, he acknowledged the coordinated work of the institutions involved in this fight, especially thanking the Tax Agency of Galicia, in particular its delegate, Miguel Cárcaba Menéndez, and the inspector in A Coruña, Irene Lage López, for their committed and effective work.