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Isabel Franco has been received by the mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, and accompanied throughout his visit by the vice mayor, Francisco Morales.

After the minute of silence convened by the Federation of Women's Organizations, Franco has declared that "gender violence is emotional terrorism."

The mayor and vice mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos and Francisco Morales respectively, have received this morning the vice president of the regional government and counselor for Women, Equality, LGTBI and Family, Isabel Franco, who has made an institutional visit to the municipality to know the work that is carried out locally against gender violence, from the public sphere and from the associative movement.

Isabel Franco has been received by the mayor and deputy mayor in the protocol mayor's office where they have held a meeting with Isabel Casalduero.

Mateos highlighted the "collaboration, coordination and institutional loyalty" of the city council with the government of Murcia and thanked the "fluency" with the vice president in matters that depend on her powers as a counselor.

After this meeting, the vice president has joined the rest of the members of the municipal corporation at the moment of silence for the victims of gender violence that the Federation of Women's Organizations of Lorca convened in the Plaza every first Wednesday of the month from Spain.

Franco's visit to Lorca is the first since he entered the position, with the only exception that led him to tour the hamlet of Campillo after the floods last September, as she recalled.

During his stay in Lorca, he has also participated in the assembly of the Federation of Women's Organizations, with members of women's associations throughout the municipality, in which Vice Mayor Francisco Morales and the Councilor for Equality Antonia Pérez also participated.

Later, accompanied by Francisco Morales, Antonia Pérez and María Dolores Chumillas, Councilor for Social Services, Franco visited the facilities of the Department of Equality, which has known the functioning of the Center for Victims of Violence (CAVI).

Isabel Franco has described this Thursday the macho violence as "emotional terrorism, which opens the way to blows of pain" and has shown the commitment of the Murcian executive to combat it.

In statements offered during her visit to the CAVI, the counselor has announced that the number of women served by the CAVI of Lorca amounts to 1,753, representing an increase of 10 percent.

While highlighting that "this increase does not have to be due to the fact that there are a greater number of cases of gender-based violence, but rather that it is increasingly denounced and is a more visible problem."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca