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Audit Faults Galician Government for Cuts to Gender Violence Prevention

The July 31 report reveals that only 55% of EU funds were spent, with local councils receiving only 3.75% following steep cuts to prevention budgets.

Manifestación feminista en Vigo.
El conselleiro mayor, Juan Carlos Aladro, entrega los informes al presidente del Parlamento.
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Overview

  • The Consello de Contas report criticizes a fall in prevention funding from €8 million in 2009 to just over €2 million in 2022.
  • It finds that Galicia executed only 55% of its allocated European funds for gender violence programs in 2023.
  • The Xunta de Galicia argues there is no direct cause-effect relationship between prevention spending levels and the number of femicides.
  • The PSdeG condemns Roberto Barba’s comments attributing violence triggers to women ending relationships as intolerable victim-blaming.
  • The Consellería de Política Social stresses that reporting incidents is the primary safeguard for victims and reaffirms prevention as an absolute priority.