Madrid (EFE) They will not accept a return to the previous law, as they believe their partners are proposing.
This has been warned at a press conference in Congress by the spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, before the umpteenth clash between the purples and the PSOE, this time on account of the downward revision of some sentences to sexual aggressors that the PSOE he wants to amend, with or without them, to avoid taking a toll on him in this election year.
According to Echenique, for Podemos the coalition Executive is not at risk, but the responsibility for the future of that unit has put the ball in the court of the Socialists and, for this reason, they agree to introduce some changes, although they do not share the idea of do so because, among other things, it will not have retroactive effects on your application.
Podemos is speaking with other regular partners of the Government to see what they think of the proposal that the PSOE has raised, insisting that “it is a lie” that Irene Montero’s law lowers penalties because what it does is raise them, parliamentary sources have indicated .
They will not support the Justice proposal
And what has made it clear is that they are not going to support the proposal of the Ministry of Justice, if that is the one that is finally reflected in the proposal of the law announced by the PSOE, because it plans to eliminate “consent”, the core of the law , and that means going back to the previous legislation that allowed sentences like that of the Pack, Echenique has assured.
As he has said, Equality has been negotiating with the PSOE since the bridge of the Constitution and has put on the table three different proposals for the modification of the penological scale, but it has been the socialists, he has pointed out, who have taken off the hook with this proposal of unilaterally and by surprise.
Echenique has flatly rejected the Justice approach which, from her point of view, represents a return to the previous model in which a difference was made between abuse and aggression. “What Justice does is change the name of the abuse, which calls it aggression without violence and intimidation, while it calls the aggression aggression with violence and intimidation.”
The material effect – they highlight from Podemos – is that the victim will have to prove that there has been violence and intimidation, which leads to a “probative ordeal” for these women.
And he has assured that, although the PSOE says that consent is protected with the Justice proposal, this statement is for the “rhetorical” purple formation. “No matter how much someone says that consent is protected, if that is not included in the text that is presented, consent is not being protected.”