Socialists accuse the ‘popular’ of “taking profit” from the change, who disfigure the “delay” and “electoral motivations”
MADRID, 20 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE has accused the PP this Thursday of “getting revenue” from the reform of the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ by “walking a motion” on this issue through town halls and regional parliaments and launching “morbid campaigns” on social networks and “polarizing” media with the “sole intention of generating fear and social conflict.”
This has been denounced by the Equality Secretary of the Socialists, Andrea Fernández, during the debate on the reform of the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ in Congress. An initiative that the PSOE has negotiated with the ‘popular’ and that they will support.
However, in his speech, Fernández, has defended the PSOE as the “only party” that, in an “exercise of responsibility” has sat down “to discreetly and rigorously develop a viable proposal” to solve the “problem” posed by the rule. She has also congratulated herself for having worked “for the majority”, for achieving “broad and solid consensus” and for bringing other formations closer to the “positions of feminism”.
“We will talk to whoever is necessary”, Fernández pointed out, in relation to the criticism of his agreement with the PP, although he later reproached the ‘popular’ for their “morbid campaigns” or that in Castilla y León, the autonomous community in which govern, the crisis centers for victims of sexual assault included in the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ have not been launched, as others are doing.
The PP has also been critical of the main party in government. The PP parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, has assured that what happened with this regulation is “the worst example of politics” because the PSOE has made it “motivated by the electoral effect”, because it is the result of “the monsters generated by the arrogance and legislative populism” or because “judges and macho hoaxes have been insulted by calling them fachas” to the warnings made by the opposition.
In addition, Gamarra has also denounced the Government’s delay in reforming or the fact that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, “the culprit” of this situation, has not attended the debate. Only four ministers have been present during it: the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, the head of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, and that of Equality, Irene Montero.
The latter addressed the chamber from the rostrum at the end of the debate to point out that this was “the most difficult day” she has experienced in Parliament as a minister and to reproach the PSOE for not accepting since December any of the reform proposals that He raised his department and that, as he explained, they were adapting to his demands.
As he explained, the PSOE was always concerned about the lowering of sentences and Equality presented several options to raise them “with the aim of giving a unitary response”, without the Socialists accepting any. He has criticized, in the same way, that the PSOE “has only made one proposal” in five months and that this was to “return to the previous penalty scheme” that “bases the credibility of the victim on the injuries” and that, in his opinion , delves into the “impunity” existing among the aggressors.
After his speech, Montero received standing applause from his entire parliamentary group, including that of the second vice president; as well as that of the ERC representatives and the Bildu Equality spokesperson, who applauded sitting on her seat. These formations have also been very critical of the socialists.
The representative of Unidas Podemos, Lucía Muñoz, described today as “sad” due to the “regression” that it represents “for women’s rights” and the approval of a text written by an author who “qualified consent as a theater” and supported by a party that in its defense speaks of “partial repeal” of the law and “returning to the scheme of the previous Penal Code”.
For the ERC representative in this debate, Pilar Vallugera, the alliance of PSOE and PP on this issue “is not proof of good government” nor is it “loyalty” to its partners and believes that the Socialists “are aware” of what This is going to mean in political terms. In this sense, he has regretted that the PSOE is not aware that the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ was made to “explain to women that the State was changing its way of understanding women’s sexual freedom and was putting itself on their side. part”.
The Bildu Equality spokesperson, Bel Pozueta, has assured that “it is difficult to understand” how the PSOE can agree on feminist advances for women’s rights with the PP, a formation that, as she has indicated, has not supported “not one single” norm in this sense in its history. In her opinion, the socialists “have been wrong” to “throw overboard” the “advance” that, in her opinion, the Law of yes is yes “putting consent at the center.”
The representative of BNG, Néstor Rego, has expressed himself along these lines, describing the PP as “retrograde” formation. In his opinion, the PSOE does this for “pure electoral calculation”, while his CUP counterpart, Mireia Vehí, has regretted that the debate on sexual assaults is focusing on a debate on penalties and has warned that an increase in these ” sexist violence will not end”.
On the opposite side is the PNV, which supports the reform. His spokesman in the debate, Mikel Legarda, the modification does not imply a heavier burden of proof and maintains the measures in terms of prevention, reparation and protection of the victims. The spokesperson for Equality of Citizens, Sara Giménez, for her part, has described the reform as “necessary” due to the “unwanted effects” it has generated and has denied that the proposed change is a return to the previous Penal Code, as a complaint We can, since, as he has indicated, “the classification is not the same” as when the abuse existed.
From the Canarian Coalition, its representative Ana Oramas, has reproached the PSOE for the delay in the modification, but it has been harsher with Montero, whom it has reproached for his statements about the judiciary and the sentences. “They have hurt women, correct them and ask for forgiveness,” she declared. The representative of Navarra Suma, Carlos García Adanero, for his part, has called for the resignation of the minister.
Meanwhile, Vox has accused Podemos of implementing ideological laws that show its “hatred of men” and its objective that it be seen as a “violent” being that “you have to be afraid of.” But, as explained by his spokesperson for Equality, Carla Toscano, this norm also shows Montero’s “contempt” towards women, treating them as an “inferior” being with “privileges or quotas” that, as he has pointed out, women “do not need They don’t want to.”
In his intervention, in which he recalled that Vox does not vote on this initiative, he criticized the PP as “accomplices” of this situation and of letting themselves be carried away by the “ideology that marks Sanchez” on this issue. “Stand aside and let Vox defend the battle and the values ??they have abandoned,” the MP urged them.
On the other hand, the Junts spokesperson for Equality, Pilar Calvo, has criticized the attitude of the PSOE in not accepting its amendments related to access to pornography for minors. The Catalan formation asked to criminally punish the platforms that did not have age verification for their use. Calvo has warned that this content “is behind the increase in sexual assaults among minors.”
Neither this nor any other of the amendments that the formations have kept alive for this debate have been accepted, so the text remains as it was approved in the Justice Commission on Tuesday.
