Compromís calls for equality working group with Sagunto's festival clubs
Compromís per Sagunt has asked the city council to set up a permanent working group on equality with Sagunto's festival club federations, in the middle of this year's patron-saint festivities.
Compromís per Sagunt has asked Sagunto City Council to create a permanent working group on equality, with the participation of the city's festival club federations. The Valencian nationalist party has sent the request to mayor Darío Moreno and to the councillors responsible for the relevant areas, aiming to open a stable channel of dialogue between the council and Sagunto's festival clubs on gender equality.
The request comes in the middle of Sagunto's patron-saint festivities, the festive setting in which the city's various clubs -known locally as peñas- are active. These clubs organise much of Sagunto's festive calendar, and Compromís is now calling for a formal, permanent space for dialogue with them, rather than one-off meetings called each summer.
In its statement, the party highlights the role it says it played in setting up a 'punto violeta' (purple point) at Sagunto's festivities in previous years. According to the definition given by Wikipedia, this is a support point offering assistance, information and help to victims of any kind of sexist aggression during festive events. The idea became widespread in Spain from 2015, when Pamplona City Council installed the first institutional purple point during the Sanfermines festival, in response to sexual assaults reported at those festivities, according to the same source; Compromís now presents Sagunto's own experience as a precedent for its work on equality within the festive calendar.
With this working group, Compromís wants measures such as the purple point -which the party says it helped launch in previous years- to stop depending on one-off initiatives and instead become stable policy, agreed jointly between the city council and the festival club federations ahead of future editions of Sagunto's patron-saint festivities. The party insists that equality should be a permanent part of how the festivities are organised, rather than only appearing as a one-off response when controversy arises. According to elperiodic.com, with additional information from Wikipedia.