Madrid (EFE) debate in the plenary session of the Lower House, which is expected to take place on March 7.
“We are going to continue asking the PSOE to sit down, we have not gotten up from the table, and that we can reach an agreement as soon as possible,” she told the media when asked about this matter upon her arrival at the international feminist meeting organized by the Ministry of Equality with the slogan ‘Feminism for a better world’.
The minister has stressed that there must be “a united response as a Government” as well as “a response from the feminist majority in Congress” to the reform of the law of the only yes is yes that, in addition, “preserves consent in the center” of the rule.
“That is what we are working for. My will is to have an agreement before there is a debate in plenary session (of Congress) that allows the right and extreme right-wing deniers of violence against women, and also of sexual violence, to add their votes to return to the Penal Code of violence or intimidation”, he added.
The first debate in plenary on the reform of the law of only yes is yes presented unilaterally by the PSOE will take place on March 7, due to its consideration.
The Minister for Equality considers that the need to provide an answer to the victims and to the “whole of society” in the face of the “judicial decisions to reduce sentences” for sexual offenders after the entry into force of the law is “obvious”, but He has insisted that consent must be “protected” “in the center of the Penal Code and sexual culture” of Spain.
And he has defended the “right” of the victims to “organize”, in reference to the creation of the first association of those harmed by the application of the law of only yes is yes.
On the other hand, when asked about her position on the war in Ukraine, Montero said that it is “the moment to defend peace” and “to work to make it possible.”
“That means putting all our efforts into diplomacy and the possibility of a ceasefire taking place as soon as possible to avoid a military escalation and allow us to start peace negotiations,” he said.