The intention of the majority partner of the Government – the PSOE – to propose a reform of the Law of Only Yes is Yes in order to correct the pernicious effect that it has caused with a continuous reduction of sentences and release of sexual offenders, has opened a new front of battle within the Executive. United We Can, through its spokesman in Congress, Pablo Echenique has accused the Socialists of putting the government coalition at risk but at the same time has ruled out the possibility that the purple formation takes a definitive step forward in defense of its postulates and choose to leave the Council of Ministers.
Furthermore, Echenique has attributed to his party “the achievement” of having formed the first coalition government in Spain and now being its main “protector”. In his opinion, in the debate that has arisen around the announced rectification of the norm, the key role is played by “the media, political and judicial right” that “pressures” the Government and before which the majority partner of the same ” yield”.
In this sense, he has expressed his displeasure at the “leak” of the PSOE announcing a rectification of the rule, after “discretion has been maintained” for two months by United We Can “to protect the negotiation and the government coalition” . “We”, he has stressed, “we protect the unity of the Government. There are others who do not do it and they are the ones who must give explanations because this is an offensive against the coalition government.”
The parliamentary spokesman for the purple formation has challenged the PSOE to confirm that his intention, when he affirms that he will modify the law “with or without United We Can”, is to carry out his initiative by agreeing with the PP. “They have to explain this,” he said, because from the point of view of Podemos, the popular, and also the Ministry of Justice itself, what they propose is “eliminate the consent of the center of the norm.”
Echenique has described as “rhetoric” the affirmation that the proposal of the Ministry of Justice, which proposes to distinguish between sexual assault with violence or intimidation or without it, protects the core of consent. “As much as they say it, it is not like that,” she stressed. “If it is necessary to demonstrate violence or intimidation, we return de facto to the previous situation, to the ordeal that women had to go through” when they denounced.
United We Can, as explained by the spokesman, maintains that if any correction must be introduced into the law, it must be exclusively to modify “the penological scale”. In short, to raise the minimum ranges of punishment contemplated by the Only yes is yes rule.
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