“The easy thing would have been to offload responsibility for the penal framework onto the PSOE”

2023-09-16 20:38:10

The acting Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has once again vindicated the law “only yes is yes” and has defended that it should not be profiled in the face of the “sexist” reaction after its application. He considers that the easy thing would have been to offload responsibility for the preparation of the criminal framework onto the PSOE, given that all revisions to the Penal Code come from the Ministry of Justice, but that is not the case in Podemos because they are convinced that the “law is not the problem”.

This was expressed during the event ‘”With you, We Can” organized by the purple formation to mark its new roadmap, which brought together numerous people at the Fernando de Rojas Theater of the Círculo de Bellas Artes and where the general secretary of Podemos Ione Belarra has demanded that Irene Montero become Minister of Equality again. “It would have been easier when the sexist reaction and the offensive of the most reactionary sectors of the State against the law ‘only yes means yes’ began to say… Look, Yes, the law has an error, a blunder that, as everyone knows, the Ministry of Justice, which is from the PSOE, has committed, because in this country all the reforms of the Penal Code are defined by the Ministry of Justice,” he noted.

Faced with what he considered the attempt to overthrow the most important advances of the legislature as his “star” law, Montero pointed out that the only thing that the country’s women would not have forgiven them for “is putting themselves in profile” when the “sexist offensive” arrives. “I don’t think the problem is with the law.” The acting Minister of Equality has taken advantage of the controversy over the kiss that the former president of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales gave to the player Jenni Hermoso to defend that her controversial rule is good.

He stressed that there has been a social debate about “consent” that has “settled with the champions” of the Spanish soccer team saying that “it is over.” And that debate, Montero insisted, is a debate in the judicial field and “That is why the majority of courts apply the ‘only yes means yes’ law well and there are some that have wanted not to apply it well.” However, the legislation of this norm was so pernicious that it had to be modified without being able to prevent more than 1,100 sentence reductions from being carried out for sexual offenders and pedophiles.

Montero defended that Spain is a “feminist country that wants lives free of violence” and that is why feminism through institutional and government action “cannot be a footnote” or an “accessory that is removed during the campaign and put on for form the government.

In line with her colleague, the general secretary of the party, Ione Belarra has stressed that carrying out feminist transformations is essential and that this has been clearly seen with the Rubiales case and also with the reduction of the sentence for one of the convicts of the case of ‘La Manada’. -It is worth remembering that the defective rule they created tried to avoid what they called returning to the “La Manada Penal Code” -in reference to that of 1995-; However, the Law of “only yes means yes” has caused one of the convicts from La Manada to have his sentence reduced in recent days.