2023-04-26 19:34:50
The reform of the Penal Code that includes the Law of Sexual Freedom (known as “yes is yes”) has received the last approval of the Senate and will enter into force immediately, 24 hours after it is published in the Official State Gazette . The norm, promoted by the PSOE and backed by the PP, has managed to garner a large majority, with the support of 231 senators and the rejection of only 19. The legislative reform comes after more than a thousand sexual offenders have obtained criminal benefits and a hundred have been released from prison with the law promoted by Irene Montero.
Specifically, the PSOE bill introduces seven amendments to the Penal Code, although the most relevant changes are found in articles 178, 179 and 180, which modify the penalties. In this sense, in 178, a new section is added to increase the penalties for sexual assaults without penetration when there is violence and intimidation to between one and five years in prison (without violence or intimidation, the penalties remain between one and four years). In article 179, a new section is also added to increase the penalties for sexual assaults with penetration and violence and intimidation to between six and twelve years in prison (without violence and intimidation, they remain between four and twelve years).
Finally, in article 180, related to aggravating factors (such as the joint action of two or more people), section one is modified to also raise the penalties and adapt them to the changes in 178 and 179. In this sense, if there is sexual assault without penetration and without violence or intimidation, the prison sentences will range from two to eight years; without penetration and with violence and intimidation, the prison sentences will range from five to ten years; with penetration, but without violence and intimidation, they will go from seven to fifteen years; and, with penetration and violence and intimidation, they will go from twelve to fifteen years.
The debate in the Senate, in any case, has been tense, although somewhat less than in the parliamentary sessions of Congress. Finally, the agreement between the PP and PSOE has been maintained, with the introduction of five popular amendments that have already been voted on in the process phase in the lower house.
The senator of the PP, Patricia Rodríguez, has charged against the Government and has accused Podemos of being “arrogant” and “refusing” to correct the unwanted effects of the “yes is yes” because it has not assumed “not even a political responsibility “and he has reproached the PSOE for having given” lurches” and only having taken the step to modify the law when the “Tezanos surveys have said that they punished” the party “if it did nothing”. “Mr. Sánchez has not been able to step on the street for a long time,” she stated, referring to the unpopularity that the President of the Government is reaping due to errors such as this “yes is yes.” Likewise, the senator has attributed the legislative reform to the PP because it has put pressure on the PSOE and because the Socialists have presented a bill that is practically identical to one that the Popular Party raised two months earlier. “Here begins the repeal of sanchismo”, she has settled.
The PSOE senator, José María Oleaga, has minimized the “yes is yes” reform, which he has considered a “great law”, because, in his opinion, what is being done is a “very specific” modification. “The agreement with the PP is of a technical nature,” he pointed out. However, in a message to Podemos, he has considered that there has been an “obvious social alarm” because there have been women who have seen how their attackers have managed to reduce their sentences and have felt “humiliation, pain and regret”.
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