The Justice Commission of Congress has taken the penultimate step for the reform of the yes is yes law and it has become a festival of attacks and reproaches to the PSOE from all fronts but mainly by its junior partner in the Government and the allies who facilitated the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu have attacked the Socialists, accusing them of being willing to “reduce the rights of women” with the aggravating circumstance, in addition, of doing it “hand in hand with an anti-system party” such as, in their opinion, the pp.
Despite the harsh criticism from these groups, the bill signed by the PSOE will go ahead on Thursday in the plenary session of Congress with the support of the popular ones who have managed to introduce two substantial amendments and various technical corrections to it. It will also have the support of Ciudadanos and the PNV. The opinion that will finally be transferred to the Chamber as a whole has had 25 votes in favor and six against from Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu. Vox has chosen not to vote to avoid aligning itself with these three formations.
The spokesperson for United We Can, Martina Velarde, has accused the Socialists of “taking a step back and betting on a counter-reform that harms women.” “We feminists know that if you agree with the PP you will not act in favor of women”, she has stressed. In his opinion, it is not true that the Socialists have only agreed on technical issues with the PP and to demonstrate this he has given the case of the footballer Dani Alves as an example: “His defense”, Velarde stated, “says exactly the same thing as the Minister of Justice, Pilar LLop: since she has no marks on her vagina, it is understood that the sex was consensual”.
The deputy from United We Can has urged the PSOE to “reflect” and has emphasized that between now and Thursday they still have time to rectify what the purples consider a serious mistake and “a cut in women’s rights.”
Bildu has also asked the Socialists to reverse their proposed law and has reproached them for aligning themselves with a party, the PP, which “has only known how to spread fear.” Bel Pozueta, on behalf of the Abertzale formation, regretted that the PSOE has not accepted any of the amendments presented by his group together with ERC and has opted to “roll the roller together with the PP” ruining what should be a “compact progressive bloc”.
Pilar Vallugera, on behalf of ERC, has described the attitude of the PSOE as “shameful”. Also she has spoken of “roller”. In her opinion, the Criminal Code “is not an aseptic law” because it represents the dominant “ideology” and, in this case, the Republicans understand that the right wing has been chosen. For Vallugera it has been “an error not to have endured the pull of the right-wing media and the reduction of sentences” to, in the end, end up altering the core of the law, which is none other than the principle of “consent”.
Faced with these arguments, the PSOE has emphasized, now yes, that the reform of the law of yes is yes “is necessary to deal with sentence reductions.” His deputy Laura Berja, however, has defended the bulk of the rule sponsored by the Ministry of Equality and has insisted that with the correction now being promoted, what will be achieved is “to shield the law and its paradigm shift” and to ensure that it “stops if there are reasons to attack it”.
For the PSOE, said the deputy, “the victims come first” and “the humiliating thing would have been to do nothing.” To this, and in response to criticism from United We Can, Berja has reminded the purple that “if today we have a Ministry of Equality it has been thanks to Pedro Sánchez.”
The popular ones who, in this case, have agreed with the PSOE, among other reasons because the bill that the Socialists present is practically identical to the one they proposed last December, have not wasted the opportunity to emphasize the “nonsense” that the Government has facilitated for six months and that has resulted in a thousand sentence reductions and a hundred releases of sexual offenders. For their spokesperson, María Jesús Moro, the Socialists “have only fallen from the horse in view of the polls.”
Moro has stood up to the criticism of the left-wing bloc, ensuring that the PP “does not defend any setback”, unlike UP, ERC or Bildu who “try to erase women” with their regulations, in obvious reference to the Trans Law. And he has affirmed: “We women do not want to be ‘pregnant people’ or ‘menstruating people'”.
The PP maintains that the law could be “further improved” and, in fact, has promised to review the Criminal Code if they manage to win in the next elections, including, as Junts y Ciudadanos have proposed, a complete regulation of pornography in relation to with minors.
Vox, for its part, has crossed out the correction of the yes-is-yes law as mere “make-up”. For them, the norm is disastrous from beginning to end because it “divides men and women”, “incorporates gender ideology in all areas”, “attempts against equality” and “breaks the presumption of innocence of men”. This formation is committed to “undoing the consent model” and advocates imposing reviewable permanent prison for the authors of joint violations.
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