Madrid, (EFE) investiture bloc parties.
The PSOE has not admitted any of the 41 amendments presented in the Senate Justice Commission that this Tuesday gave the green light to the presentation report on the reform of the law of comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom and, although these will be debated in plenary session, it is not foreseeable that they will prosper, with which the reform will be definitively approved.
During its passage through Congress, the PSOE, with the support of the PP, introduced a modification to create an aggravated subtype within the crime of sexual assault so that the penalties are higher if there is violence and intimidation.
Rupture of government partners
A reform that has revealed the rupture of the government partners who, for the first time, voted separately for the correction of a rule promoted by the Executive itself.
From the PSOE they defend that the law maintains consent at the center and that the modification is limited to correcting the aspects of the norm that do not work and that have led to at least 943 reductions in sentences for sexual offenders and 103 releases.
The members of the investiture bloc, including Unidas Podemos, denounce, however, that this correction represents a setback and a return to the previous Penal Code in which the victim will have to prove the violence suffered.
They have also criticized that the PSOE carry out this reform with the support of the PP, which, they have warned, “has always opposed advances in women’s rights.”
The PP, for its part, celebrates this correction of the norm – the spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, spoke of “repeal” – and demands political responsibilities for what they describe as the “greatest political scandal of the legislature.”