Irene Montero’s team assures that it has sent the PSOE more than a dozen proposals to reform the Penal Code
The Ministry of Equality defends himself: Irene Montero’s team denies castling or electoral calculations in its refusal to accept the socialist proposal to reform the Penal Code. “Transferring confidence and firmness does not mean that we are stuck, we are concerned and busy looking for solutions. (…) The political and electoral calculations come from another place,” said the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez.
A few minutes after the Congress Table decides the processing times of the PSOE bill, the conversations within the Government are stuck. The Socialists have not responded to the request for an Equality meeting, which wanted them to sit down at the table again to agree on a unitary solution to take by the hand to the Cortes.
“Although they are not the more pleasant conversations, we have all the will. The important thing is that it is a good proposal that protects women. We have proposals, we are patient,” Rodríguez pointed out in an interview on RNE.
The Secretary of State has recognized that it is a “politically complicated situation”, but has flatly rejected that the position of Equality has to do with “when are the general elections” and has recounted that they have transferred to the PSOE more than a dozen of proposals to increase the penalties for sexual crimes without including violence and intimidation as subtypes.
“Let’s aggravate violence and intimidation as aggravating circumstances so that the penalties can be raised, we have an agreement on this but we preserve the consent model,” he requested.
From the ministry they have insisted that it is necessary to take advantage of until the last minute to try to reach an agreement that the investiture partners support. Rodríguez has harshly criticized the fact that the PSOE can count on the PP and even Vox to carry out its proposal.
“It is not understandable”, in his opinion, that the PSOE prefers to approve with the PP and even with Vox the reform of a law that they strongly opposed.
“We must give a united response and protect the coalition government, but also women and that this be compatible. (…) Until the last vote in Congress there are multiple possibilities of agreement. The important thing today is that we think with whom we want to carry out the reform to protect the women of this country”, he stressed.