Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The Minister of Social Rights, Noemí Santana, has indicated this Tuesday that of what is known as the law of the only yes is yes, there are issues that can be improved, but, she added, consent must be the central axis, and therefore this concept does not have to be changed.
In response to a question from the deputy of the Mixed group Vidina Espino about the application of what is known as the law of only yes is yes, the counselor has indicated that, in 2021, of the 4,000 women who tried to prove that they were raped and that they had been victims of aggressions and sexist violence “only” 500 received recognition.
Noemí Santana has reiterated that there are things that can be improved in the law and that is why the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has at no time refused to modify it so that there are not those who misapply it, “to do politics with robes”. .
The counselor has recalled that the application of the law is not the responsibility of her department, and has insisted that it is an “incredible” advance for Spain in terms of protection for victims, something that, she added, has been recognized by institutions such as the ONU.
A law in which the demands of the feminist movements are widely collected, Noemí Santana has stressed.
The deputy of the Mixed group Vidina Espino has said that “everyone” can be wrong but not insist on the error, and for this reason she has asked that the law be rectified and that responsibilities be assumed, in such a way that she has requested the resignation of the delegate of the Government against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell.
Vidina Espino has opined that Victoria Rosell should resign for making statements that should appear in the “anthology of nonsense”, such as that violence has never been fixed with more violence, because in this way, the deputy has added, she implies that it is violence that a rapist goes to jail. EFE