Rita Bosahowill be the newgeneral director of Equal Treatment and Racial Ethnic Diversityof the Ministry of Equality after the councilor of the Gijón City CouncilAlba González resignto that position to give visibility to “women belonging to racialized groups”.
Bosaho, who was the first black person to win a seat in theCongress of Deputiesin 2015 byAlicante,has been appointed to perform the aforementioned position of theMinistry of Equalityafter González’s step back just 48 hours after taking office. However, it will continue in the team ofIrene Montero.
González explained on Twitter that she is resigning from the post so that “there is a visible presence of women belonging to racialized groups” in the ministry and has made herself available to the new CEO, whom she has wished “much encouragement, luck and good luck.” right. “
“I will be delighted to continue being part of the project of this Ministry of Equality, working for the same objectives of redistribution of wealth for which I had said yes in the first place,” said González.
Bosaho (Equatorial Guinea, 1965), new general director, has a degree in History and a master’s degree in Contemporary Europe and has been residing in Spain for more than 30 years.
Deputy for PodemosDuring the XI and XII legislatures (2016-2019), it wasknown in Alicante for her social activism on the Feminist Platformof the city or in the NGO Project Culture and Solidarity.
Bosaho has denounced on different occasions that the Afro-descendant group has suffered and still suffers from the “invisibility and denial”, as well as the “social, economic and political” inequalities that dot their daily lives.
“The white citizenry has to let go of its privileges to put the other’s shoes on,” said the new CEO, convinced that feminism and anti-racism must go hand in hand.
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