Rocío Monasterio is a member of the populist Vox party in Spain and the president of the Madrid branch of the party. The following video features some of her remarks during a debate with members of the other parties, which was held during the run-up to the recent elections (in which Vox did very well).
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | To Vox. —Vox is the only party that asks for life imprisonment for rapists | |
| 00:05 | and for murderers and violent offenders, and I would like it if today, here, | |
| 00:09 | all the representatives of the other parties would join the proposal by Vox, | |
| 00:13 | because we don’t want to see recidivist rapists again in our streets, | |
| 00:18 | because mothers don’t want to think that when our daughters come out of | |
| 00:21 | the metro they will meet once again with one of these ruthless men, | |
| 00:25 | such as the killer of [Lauro] Luelmo. And for this we ask for life imprisonment, | |
| 00:29 | and hope, and we would like the others join in because we are for solutions, | |
| 00:33 | and it doesn’t seem to be a solution, a sexual assault law in which we are compounding the error, | |
| 00:38 | and seeing that there have been 51 women murdered this year, it is confirmation | |
| 00:42 | that the numbers should not increase. If it were only one, we should reflect on how | |
| 00:47 | we could improve this law. And it would be a responsibility, | |
| 00:51 | and a sovereign responsibility on the part of the parties present here who don’t want to talk about | |
| 00:55 | reforming the law, to improve it to guarantee protection to women, and, besides, | |
| 01:00 | they don’t believe in women because what happened when the delegation from Iran arrived | |
| 01:04 | in Spain, and said to all the political parties that the women | |
| 01:08 | cannot approach us and shake our hand and if they want to look us in the eye [they cannot], | |
| 01:12 | only Vox opposed. And all the rest were ready to comply, | |
| 01:16 | of course until Vox made its announcement that the others backed down | |
| 01:20 | They were all ready to order their female deputies… to order their female deputies | |
| 01:25 | not to shake their hands and not look the Iranians in the eye . | |
| 01:29 | This is feminism, and this is the defense of equality by politicians in Spain [unintelligible]. |