PSOE will amend its Code of Ethics to expel those who use prostitution

The PSOE Secretary General and President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has told his party's Equality Secretaries that the PSOE Code of Ethics will be amended to expel all those who use prostitution.

The party has reported in a statement that following Sanchez's closed meeting with Equality officials, a paragraph will be added to article 4.5 of the PSOE Code of Ethics. According to this, "the request, admission or obtaining of a sexual act from a person in exchange for remuneration is totally incompatible with the militancy of the PSOE, and the federal organs shall process such cases as very serious misdemeanours, in accordance with the Federal Statutes, and shall also impose the maximum penalty, i.e. expulsion from the party".

The text adds that prostitution is an "expression of violence against women" and incompatible with the principles of human rights and democratic ethics, "involving the treatment of women as objects or goods and not as subjects of rights".

"We consider ourselves abolitionists of prostitution because we advocate a model of society that fights for the disappearance of the causes that compel women to prostitute themselves because it is incompatible with the model of society that we propose, with equality and respect for the dignity of individuals and with the defence of women's human rights," the new wording of the Code of Ethics stresses.