The vice president of Murcia José Ángel Antelo affirms that the regional budgets do not have a single LGTBI item
«Next year there will be no LGTBI games and that is evidence«. This is how the vice president of Murcia boasted this Tuesday, Jose Angel Antelo, from the imprint of Vox in next year's budgets.
In the beginning, the Ministry of Social Policy, Families and Equality It had funding for this group of 4.500 euros—so small that it was criticized by the opposition—however, it was eliminated at the request of the minority partner of the Murcian Executive. The party has insisted that they have tried to eliminate all "superfluous expenses» of those budgets, whose approval they value as one of the great priorities of these first hundred days in the regional Government.
Setback in Murcia
The associations LGTBI They are not surprised by the disappearance of the movement's acronyms in the regional budgets. But they consider it a setback. They will monitor whether equality policies are promoted through other programs of the Department of Social Policy.
El collective galactyco remember that it has never received direct subsidies from the administration but that does not prevent it from having observed the small budget to implement the Law of Equality which the assembly itself approved in 2016. Its communication member, Jose Maria Garcia, believes that now it will be worse as Vox has joined the regional government.
The Ministry of Social Policy points out that as such the acronym LGTBI does not appear because the actions aimed at this group are framed within the scope of equality and non-discrimination. If the term « is useddiversity«. From galactyco José María García believes that the language is not innocuous and points out that «what is not named does not exist«.
