MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE has decided to ask for one more week, presumably the last extension, to present the partial amendments to the Bill for the real and effective equality of trans people, despite pressure from its partners in United We Can, who have been demanding to unlock the process.
The deadline for submitting amendments ends this Wednesday, but the Congress Bureau meets in the morning to decide whether to extend it. As socialist sources assure Europa Press, the PSOE is already immersed in the drafting of its modification proposals, but has preferred to give itself one more week and will request one last extension. As the PP and Vox also request an extension of the term, everything indicates that it will be approved.
This same Tuesday, the spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, had publicly summoned his partners not to further extend the deadlines to unlock the Equality project and be able to begin the discussion of the articles.
At a press conference in the Lower House, Echenique said that every day that passes without advancing this law, the trans community suffers “tremendous” discrimination and that by extending the amendment process again, these people “will suffer” for longer. He claims to respect the internal debate that the PSOE may have, but believes that this should not affect the progress in the deployment of said law.
For now, the socialists have advanced that they will not touch gender self-determination in the Trans Law, although they did recognize that they wanted to reinforce the legal certainty of the text by predicting that Vox will take it to the Constitutional. They also expressed doubts about the comparison of some types of violence to gender violence that occurs against women within a relationship with a partner or ex-partner (known as intra-gender violence).
The blocking of the processing has already caused the loss of militancy of the socialist Carla Antonelli, who complained about the attitude of her party. In addition, trans groups have mobilized to pressure the PSOE and have even announced rallies at their headquarters.
