The cards are being turned face up for the next week that will be decisive for feminism. On the one hand, it happens that Congress votes on Tuesday the PSOE proposal to change the law of only yes is yes without an agreement with United We Can. On the other hand, a day later the feminist movement took to the streets to commemorate 8-M in the midst of a strong division and confronted by the policies promoted by the Ministry of Equality of Irene Montero, which will mean that there will be two demonstrations separated.
The conveners of the main march on March 8 have taken a firm position regarding the debate on the law of only yes is yes. The 8M Madrid Commission is flatly opposed to the reform promoted by the PSOE to correct the Penal Code and aligns itself with Podemos in its criticism.
“We are not going to consent to anything that is a step backwards” in the “paradigm shift” introduced by the law of the only yes is yes to put violence and intimidation aside and to place consent at the center, they say from the Commission 8M of Madrid, whose manifestation is Atocha-Cibeles-Plaza de España.
“The focus does not have to be on the survivors, but on the aggressors and on proving whether there has been consent or not,” stressed co-spokesperson Arantxa López, at the press conference to present the demonstration, in which she stressed for twice that you can’t take “not one step back” on that.
The position is a warning of the criticism that may fall on the PSOE that day in the streets, one day after the socialist deputies, with the foreseeable help of the PP, win the vote so that Congress begins to process its proposal for change urgency of the law of the only yes is yes. It is the beginning of the road, then it will have to be completed in the following weeks.
It is to this demonstration that the PSOE has been going for decades and which this year it will attend again, like “all my life”, according to sources from Ferraz. Therefore, the large socialist delegation in the march could run into cries or critical banners.
Meanwhile, Unidas Podemos has revealed that on Tuesday it will vote against the admission of the PSOE initiative for processing and has assured that it will maintain that sense of vote if the socialist proposal reaches the end of the process on the same terms.
Therefore, there will be a fracture between the two partners in the Government over one of the laws that was given the most hype when it was approved but which has turned against it like a boomerang due to the more than 760 sentence reductions for sexual offenders and pedophiles. A whole nightmare of revisions that has not yet ended and that is bleeding the image of the Executive branch on the verge of the May elections.
PSOE and Unidas Podemos go directly to the clash in that Plenary Session of Congress. The purple spokesman, Pablo Echenique, has justified the vote against the socialist proposal means “returning to the Penal Code of La Manada” and has criticized the fact that two weeks after requesting a new meeting to negotiate, the majority partner did not want to sit down to seek an agreement.
In statements to the media in Congress, Echenique has recognized that an “unedifying spectacle” can take place that day, but has framed it not in the confrontation between the partners but in the fact that the PSOE relies on the votes of the PP to achieve his purpose of correcting the law. In his opinion, the Socialists should bet on an agreement with the “feminist majority” of the Chamber instead of looking to their right.
For the second consecutive year, Women’s Day will make visible the division in feminism with two separate and politically opposed demonstrations in Madrid. Critical associations will once again disassociate themselves from the traditional march with an alternative protest that will also start from the Atocha roundabout, like the other, but which will then go up to the Plaza de la Provincia, very close to the Plaza Mayor.
In this, convened by the Feminist Movement of Madrid, the resignation of Minister Irene Montero and the “disapproval” of Pedro Sánchez for not dismissing her as head of the Ministry of Equality will be requested. In addition, both the “botches” of the law of the only yes is yes and the Trans Law will be denounced for being legislation that “erases women.”
On the other hand, the main demonstration, which has the slogan “we are the cry that is changing everything”, makes an absolute support for the Trans Law. “Wherever you see the tallest and largest trans flag, it will be the demonstration that we call,” said Julia Tabernero, from the 8M Commission. These feminists warn that they will defend “with tooth and nail” the rights “of trans childhoods and adolescents.”
The 8M Commission has claimed in the face of the “confusion” that its demonstration is the one that Madrid has historically traveled and has indicated that in its “we all fit”.
The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has recognized this Friday that the data published by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) on reductions in sentences for sexual offenders are “really very serious”, and has defended the PSOE proposal to reform the ‘law of only yes is yes’ ensuring that the Ministry’s position on this issue is “exclusively technical”.
This was expressed in statements to the media after holding the Justice Sector in Palma, asked about the figures that the Judiciary shared this Thursday. The body figures the sentence reductions at 721 and the releases due to the ‘only yes is yes’ law at 74. Llop has stated that the solution proposed by the Socialists is “technically viable” and that it is limited to guaranteeing “that the sentences more serious continue to have adequate penalties”.
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