Andalusia’s Minister of Social Services, Families and Equality, Loles López, described Equality Minister Ana Redondo’s approach as “disappointing” after a Crisis Committee meeting in Seville to review the latest gender-based killings in July and August. López said Redondo had offered no solutions and had “come to stigmatize the Andalusian people.”
López said Andalusia has historically recorded the highest number of victims among Spain’s autonomous communities, including in 2018, 2015 and 2011, because it has the largest population. Presenting the figures without statistical rigor or sensitivity, “as if this were a football league ranking,” was, she said, sad and concerning. She added that even one victim should be enough to warrant unity and the efforts of society and public administrations.
López said Redondo had made no proposals in response to continuing failures of anti-abuse monitoring bracelets, which she said had come to light following a complaint by the Málaga Audiencia. A minute of silence was held before the committee meeting.
López accused the minister of repeating the response from the previous year, when the failures became known through media reports: first, she said, the truth was concealed, then denied, and later an apology was offered for the noise caused, rather than for victims’ lack of protection. López said that those who do not acknowledge mistakes cannot fix them, citing the bracelets, staffing shortages in the security forces and risk assessments as examples.
In Andalusia, four of the women killed in 2026 were in the VioGén System, Spain’s integrated monitoring system for gender-violence cases. Three had been assessed as being at low risk and one at high risk. López said she would continue to recognize the professionalism and work of people in Andalusia fighting gender-based violence and supporting victims, contrasting that with what she called the minister’s coldness toward the figures.