He responds to the PSOE that he knows his proposals and rejected them because they raised penalties and criticizes the alliance with the PP
MADRID, 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has proclaimed after the clash over the reform of the Law only ‘yes is yes’ that the coalition government “is not at risk but the rights of women”, after the PSOE joins with the PP to start the path back to the “Penal Code of ‘the herd'”.
In addition, he has replied to the criticism of the Socialists, who recriminate the lack of alternatives to change the norm, that the head of Justice herself, Pilar Llop, has publicly said that they rejected the proposals for Equality under the paradoxical argument that it increased penalties.
In the corridors of Congress, the head of Equality has stressed that the PSOE is aware of his proposals and that what is “relevant”, within this controversy, is that his partner has not wanted to “sit with his partner” and with the majority of the investiture bloc to try an agreement, opting to “shake hands” with the PP to take forward the consideration of its proposal to reformulate the Law ‘only if it is yes’.
In fact, Montero has reported that the PSOE rejected the alternatives raised by his department that increased penalties. And they did it at the request of the PSOE, despite the fact that their criteria was that it was not the most effective response in the fight against sexual violence.
Therefore, he has proclaimed that this alliance of the PSOE with the PP to return to the framework that led to the first sentence in the case of ‘La Manada’ is “bad news”, that is, the Penal Code based on “violence and intimidation”. .
A drift that, for Montero, means “missing” the conquest that women achieved in the streets, which was precisely to place consent at the “center” of the legislation, something that is the patrimony not of the Government but of all the women who they “conquered” in the streets.
“This is what must be defended. The coalition government is not at risk, but the women’s,” he concluded during his appearance in the Lower House.
