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| Councilwoman Ainhoa ??Sánchez, who has been able to attend sessions normally during confinement, considers that this situation attempts against equality, conciliation and participation | The Municipal Socialist Group does not leave their amazement at the 'macho and retrograde' attitude of the direction of the Plenum of the Murcia City Council that is preventing the participation in the sessions of the councilor Ainhoa ??Sánchez, on maternity leave, electronically when, In addition, it is a procedure that is tested and for which there is no impediment because it has been used during the months of confinement.In the last session, when the two plenary sessions coincided, the extraordinary and the ordinary, which lasted until 3.30 p.m., Sánchez had to attend with his baby, just one month old.

At that time, he denounced that, despite being approved the motion that required the implementation of the telematic vote, that day he had to go to the Plenary Hall, "something absolutely paradoxical and absurd because during the months of confinement all councilors participated in plenary sessions telematics without any problem, "explains the mayor, who adds that" instead of learning from the positive that this pandemic has brought, such as making use of technology to continue working from our homes, we take steps back again ".After the June plenary sessions, the councilor went to the plenary secretary to request her telematic participation again, despite the motion being approved, "and the answer is most stale because she comes to tell me that since I'm not sick I am not prevented from coming to the City Hall, without taking into account that I have a baby who is completely dependent.

I think that anyone who has children, male or female, knows perfectly well that in the first months babies do not have sleep or food habits and you have to be serving them on demand and now.

"For Ainhoa ??Sánchez, the mayor Ballesta, as president of the Plenary, must make a forceful decision, which will be a precedent that will benefit all councilmen and councilors of the Murcia City Council.

"It cannot be that with the times, when we have the necessary technology, we are functioning as if we lived in the last century."What's more, the socialist councilor affirms that "instead of continuing to take steps to set a good example for society by putting in place the means to develop an authentic reconciliation of work and family life, we are sheltered in ancient customs and traditions, as if time would not have passed and, what is worse, without favoring the conditions so that there is a true equality between men and women ".Ainhoa ??Sánchez concludes that "perhaps the sincere intention of the Plenary leadership is to torpedo participation, which would not surprise us either, so I hope that the mayor, as president of the Plenary, will impose his authority."

Source: PSOE Murcia