Madrid, 10 (EFE).- Unidas Podemos trusts that the PSOE will “reflect” and support the amendments that it has registered this Monday in Congress to reform the law of only yes is yes, proposals in line with those that have also been presented by ERC and Bildu and that, assures the purple formation, they avoid going back and “degrading the consent system”.
While the socialist bill introduces an aggravated type for the crime of sexual assault when it occurs with violence or intimidation, Unidas Podemos proposes that violence or intimidation be aggravating circumstances and define sexual assault solely on the basis of the lack of of consent.
Justice warned that the system proposed by Equality and Podemos could lead to disproportionate penalties and chose to present its reform proposal alone, but Unidas Podemos insists that the PSOE initiative means returning to the previous scheme.
Do not return to the previous system
“It is much better to modulate the application of the law with aggravating factors than going back to the previous system, which brought a lot of pain, a lot of suffering and very little justice to women,” the government delegate against violence assured journalists in Congress. gender violence, Victoria Rosell.
In his opinion, what the PP spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, said in the socialist reform was an amendment to the entire law of the only yes is yes and that now the groups of the “progressive and feminist” majority in Congress agree with the Equality position should make the PSOE reflect.
“It is no coincidence that most feminists agree that the solution is not this subtype, but this aggravating factor”; “It is not necessary that setback that the PP seeks to improve the application of the law in the courts and give more legal certainty to women.”
We can trust an agreement with the PSOE
As he explained, there were negotiations with the PSOE until December 8, but “Justice got up from the table.”
Rosell believes that these are “technical differences” that “are not of great significance, but that they do have a great impact on the system”, and he is confident that, although it was not possible in past negotiations, now an agreement can be reached. agreement.
“We have tried the agreement until the end, we are always willing to sit down,” he said.
The law of only yes is yes led to the downward revision of hundreds of convictions of sexual offenders by lowering some minimum sentences and including as an aggravating circumstance that the assault was preceded or accompanied by “extremely serious violence
or of acts of a particularly degrading or vexatious character”.
The proposal of Unida Podemos reformulates this aggravating circumstance and increases the penalties when to commit the aggression “violence or intimidation has been used, or it is accompanied by acts of a particularly degrading or vexatious nature”, without prejudice to the fact that the acts of violence may be additionally punished.
The PSOE defends its reform of the only yes is yes and rejects the amendments of Podemos
However, the PSOE spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría, has defended the bill designed by her party to reform the law of only yes is yes to avoid future reductions in sentences for sexual offenders and has ensured that the amendments presented by United We Can, ERC and Bildu “do not solve the problem”.
“It is important not to confuse closure with feminism,” he said at a press conference at the party headquarters after Podemos and the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, have called on the socialists to support the amendments of the “feminist” groups and progressives.”
Alegría has affirmed that they respect all the amendments that have been presented and, after pointing out that those registered by Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu are “practically identical”, he wanted to make it clear that “they do not solve the undesired effects” that have been verified by applying a law designed to comprehensively protect victims.