The Senate culminates the correction of the law of only yes is yes with the opposition of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and United We Can after a thousand sentence reductions for sexual offenders and a hundred releases. Violence and intimidation are recovered as a criminal subtype to establish higher penalties. This reform goes ahead with the votes of the PSOE and the PP, who have approached their unusual alliance in this matter in a different way.
The Socialists have wanted to shelve six months of controversy in which they recognize that the victims have felt “humiliation”, “regret” and pain “for the downward revisions, while the popular ones have taken advantage of the change in one of the laws star of the legislature to proclaim: “Today here begins the repeal of sanchismo”.
The Plenary of the Upper House will vote on the reform this afternoon and will once again make visible the photo from last week in Congress: PSOE and PP joining together to defeat the majority of partners who promoted the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, who will speak out against . From that image, only contemplating the fracture of the partners of the Government changes. Because as Unidas Podemos it does not have senators, it has not even been able to participate in the debate.
However, the Minister for Equality has sent from Congress the message that the change in the Law to Guarantee Sexual Freedom is indeed “a setback in the rights of women in criminal matters” which makes it even more urgent deploy standard measures such as the opening of care centers for victims by the autonomous communities.
Meanwhile, in the debate in the Senate, the PP has once again shown itself to be much more enthusiastic than the PSOE, as it already demonstrated with that standing applause in Congress. Thus, he celebrated that “finally” the day has come to correct “the most scandalous legislative error of all democracy.” An error, Patricia Rodríguez has emphasized, which leaves “shocking figures” of benefited sexual offenders and “irreparable and irreversible” consequences.
The popular senator has described that there have been six months of “pain”, “fear”, “re-victimization” and “helplessness” for the victims. A time in which Rodríguez has criticized that Podemos has been in the “insult” to the judges and in the “arrogance” and in the “refusal” when it comes to rectifying the law. “But hold on tight to the Ministry’s chair”, she has finished off, without assuming “a bit of self-criticism” and “zero political responsibility”.
Despite the agreement between the two major parties, the PP has pointed to Sánchez as the “guilty” of the “nonsense” and has criticized his “unforgivable” attitude of not appearing in Congress to vote on the reform in contrast to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who Yes, he will do it. “History will remember Sánchez as the author of the greatest setback in the fight for equality and against gender violence,” Rodríguez stated.
For its part, the PSOE has tried to reduce the disavowal made to Equality by framing the change to just a “very specific” aspect of a “great law” and has criticized that the PP wants to “take advantage of this circumstance to bring the ember to its sardine “.
Senator José María Oleaga has justified that the victims had felt “humiliated” and that for that reason alone it was necessary to “correct” it. Likewise, he has defended that the socialist text is the only “viable” proposal that has been presented. And that in him the consent “is not touched” and “continues in the heart of the law.” Two theses against what Irene Montero maintains.
Faced with criticism from ERC for agreeing with the PP, the socialist senator has defended that they have only agreed with him on issues of a “technical nature”. And he has returned the dart to the Republicans: “If, as we agree with the PP, we are now an anti-feminist party, then how are you going to agree with Vox, how do you rate yourselves?”
The passage of the change of the law of only yes is yes by the Senate leaves no news, after the PSOE has rejected all the amendments presented. Therefore, the reform remains as it came out of Congress, when it was approved to create an aggravated subtype in the Penal Code within the crime of sexual assault when there is violence and intimidation. So those penalties are higher.
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