The socialist spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, defends that the text of her partners “does not avoid unwanted effects” and is “very similar” to the Equality approach
The PSOE will maintain its proposal to modify the ‘only yes is yes’ law and will not accept the changes proposed by the parliamentary groups of ERC and EH Bildu which, in coordination with Podemos, have presented amendments to the socialist text very much in line with the positions defended by the Ministry of Equality. The minister herself, Irene Montero, recognized this morning that they have acted in a coordinated manner to try to get the PSOE to border its text and accept its proposals.
But the socialists have already publicly expressed their rejection. The spokesperson for the PSOE leadership, Pilar Alegría, has assured at a press conference that the ERC and EH Bildu amendments “they do not correct” the reductions in sentences in the future that have occurred in application of the yes is yes law and that led the PSOE to present a reform, against the criteria of Podemos and Equality, to stop the political erosion that this reduction in sentences was causing them, a few months after regional and municipal elections.
“Does not prevent unwanted effects”, Alegría has said, something that the Socialists do believe that their bill does. The also Minister of Education has even denied that the position of Podemos, ERC or Bildu, which they themselves define as a feminist majority, is defending women. “Do not confuse closure with feminism”has warned.
The PSOE has ensured that the ERC and EH Bildu amendments are “very similar” to the texts that Podemos has been presenting in these months of negotiation within the Government and has defended that their wording supposes the existence of an “error”, in reference to the almost thousand reductions in sentences and even releases.