Ángela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for Equality, participated this Thursday in a colloquium on gender equality policies in A Coruña MIGUEL MIRAMONTES
The number two of Equality stressed that “most courts are applying the rule well, an effort must be made to tell the reality well”
09 feb 2023 . Updated at 8:14 p.m.
The Secretary of State for Equality, angela rodriguezhas defended this Thursday that the negotiation between the two groups that form the coalition government on the Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom Its red line is to preserve “the model of consent”. Before the colloquium Gender equality policies in the Government of change: challenges, priorities and resistanceat the University of A Coruña, Ángela Rodríguez has assured that her group, United We Can, has not stopped “working and negotiating in recent months and weeks” in the changes of the so-called law of «only yes is yes». “We have presented the Socialist Party up to six different criminal proposals“, he explained, although he assumes and shares “the diagnosis with the President of the Government and with the rest of the socialist part of the Government that None of these penal proposals will serve to resolve this worrying situation of reduced sentences.”
As he has said, his formation has tried to “offer solutions that, in the first place, preserve the consent model and secondly, also develop and implement all the measures of the sexual freedom law”, which he believes “can be more useful and more necessary to protect women”. “We show our absolute willingness to try to settle this situation as soon as possible and do it with the institutional unity that the fight against sexist violence requires,” she added.
PSOE and Podemos skin each other
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However, has accused the PSOE of getting up from the table in the last negotiation, although now in his group they are “extremely willing” to speak again. «It is true that the solutions have to go through preserving a reform of the Penal Code that does not return women to that Penal Code of the Pack that has given so much suffering to many victims. Most of the sexual assaults that are committed are assaults in which it is impossible to prove violence,” she added. That is why she advocates for rules “that preserve the model of consent and that help make this reform of the Penal Code useful to protect women.”
Ask the Xunta to open crisis centers in the community
As for the resignation requests from the PP of the Minister of Equality and of herself, such as the one that was approved in the Galician Parliament at the request of the popular ones, Ángela Rodríguez has assured that the popular formation “could have better tasks to do than ask for my resignation and that of Irene Montero” . “Of course it makes us think that the work of feminists in institutions has never been so necessary, not only in the Ministry of Equality.” “If the Popular Party had the protection of women’s rights as a political priority, it would be taking measures such as, for example, open crisis centers in Galiciathat there should be four and there is not one because the Xunta has not done its job ».
Ángela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for Equality, this Thursday in A Coruña MIGUEL MIRAMONTES
Applauds the fact that most courts apply the rule “well”
Meanwhile, asked about the decision of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to ask the courts to report on the resolutions handed down in relation to the application of this law, the Secretary of State for Equality has stated that there are judicial decisions that are “in the right direction” and has applauded the measure for ” have official data. “Most of the courts are applying the norm well, an effort must be made to tell the reality well.” “Today the Supreme Court has said that in the child sexual abuse cases aggravated type there is no reduction in sentenceI don’t know how it’s not opening covers,” he lamented.
The PSOE opens to negotiate with the PP the reform of the law of “only yes is yes”
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The coalition government is going through his biggest crisis of the legislature on account of the law of “only yes is yes”. And the possibility of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos reaching a consensus seems complicated, because there is no dialogue between the two partners since the socialists presented their proposal to reform the law. The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, revealed this Thursday that there is no open negotiation with the PSOE, while the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, assured that he will speak with all the groups, including the PP, to try to carry out his proposal. Therefore, the socialist sector of the Government no longer rules out that the reform that, according to Bolaños, tries to correct an “imperfect” law, goes ahead thanks to the votes of the PP.
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