Overview
- Vox and ANAVID held the “Ideología de género y denuncias falsas España/Argentina” conference on September 4 in the Sala Ernest Lluch after the Mesa’s authorization, with PP and PSOE in favor, Sumar opposed, and ERC, EH Bildu and BNG seeking its suspension.
- Speakers argued the 2004 gender-violence law violates basic rights, alleged widespread false reports and linked irregular immigration to sexual crimes, while an ex–Supreme Court judge mocked trans people.
- The Equality Ministry highlighted official figures showing false complaints represent about 0.0084% of gender-violence cases and that most recorded sexual aggressors are Spanish nationals.
- Prosecutor General Álvaro García Ortiz said nearly three million complaints since 2004 make it difficult to deny structural gender violence, citing 2024 data of 50 partner feminicides and 199,094 complaints.
- Criticism now centers on the Mesa’s decision to host the event and on the use of parliamentary facilities to platform xenophobic and transphobic messages contradicted by state statistics.