Protesters take part in a demonstration during a nationwide feminist strike on International Women's Day in Madrid, Spain, March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Medina
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Wearing purple and raising their fists, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets of Spanish cities on International Women's Day on Friday calling for greater gender equality.
The issue has become deeply divisive ahead of a national election on April 28. A new far-right party, Vox, which has called for a 2004 law on domestic violence against women to be scrapped, stands to win dozens of seats, according to opinion polls.
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