One day after the vote that will fracture the coalition government, Pedro Sánchez has tried to shake off the harsh criticism he is receiving from United We Can for the reform against his will of the law of only yes is yes and agreed with the PP: “The best way to defend this law, which is a feminist advance, is precisely to make this technical modification of the Penal Code”, assured the President of the Government.
Minutes later, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, responded to the Chief Executive: “We are in time before tomorrow to send a strong message to the Spanish people and, especially, to the Spanish women that feminist rights are not negotiated with the PP “.
Sánchez has made the claim of the legal change promoted by the PSOE and agreed with the PP during the control session with the Government, taking advantage of a question formulated in this regard by the popular spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, who has reproached him for his tardiness and for having acted solely on the due to “electoral fear” and “opportunism” in the face of the wear and tear that the reduction in sentences for sexual offenders was causing. That are around a thousand.
The correction of the law of only yes is yes has caused a frontal clash within the Government between the PSOE and United We Can, with Irene Montero leading the offensive against the change of its star law. The socialist position also received a strong response from the investiture majority, which has taken the majority side of the purples, with parties such as ERC, EH Bildu or Más País aligning themselves against the reform of the Penal Code. In the end, the PSOE has had to reach an agreement with the PP, from which it has accepted some amendments, in a very unusual agreement in this legislature between the two big parties.
This pact with the popular has given more ammunition to United We Can, which has labeled the legal change as “the first anti-feminist reform that is being carried out in Spain.” For this reason, the PSOE is asked for “courage” and to “rectify” it so as not to culminate it this Thursday in the vote in Congress.
In a question from the people’s deputy Marta González, the Minister for Equality has defended some of the measures of the norm and has warned the PSOE that the PP is an “anti-feminist” party. Words that she has finished off with her request to the Socialists to change the fate of tomorrow’s vote, which will offer the photo of two partners facing each other.
Aware of all these criticisms and of the offensive launched by Podemos to defend his law, Sánchez has boasted of being “a feminist government that makes feminist policies and is proud to make feminist policies.” In addition, she has highlighted that with her “hits and misses” she has always sought to put women in the “center”. And she has cited the State Pact against Gender Violence or the provision of economic resources to develop it.
Faced with the defense made by Sánchez, the PP has refuted that his “only priority” is to save himself and that is why it has taken so long to act, because it has only done so when it has seen that it was going to “pass the electoral bill” . Gamarra has minimized that he asks for a “timid apology” since this is a “proof of opportunism” thinking about the May 28 elections.
The PP spokeswoman has contrasted her reaction time before the hundreds of condemned reductions. “It takes 194 days”, she has stressed, to correct a law when to eliminate sedition she needed “39” and to reduce the penalties for embezzlement they were “11”. Gamarra has made it ugly that she governs the “dictator of the powerful” who have the votes, while “she ignores the victims of the aggressors until now” because “they are not powerful.”
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