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The crisis unleashed in the Government on account of the processing of the law of sexual freedom - which shields sexual consent, known as only yes is - has found a lifeline in the relationship between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias. While the confrontation between United Podemos and Vice President Carmen Calvo and the Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, is clear, the sources consulted indicate that the relationship between the leaders of the PSOE and Podemos, far from resentment, enjoys today good health.

Moreover, the conviction in the purple formation is that the boycott attempt denounced by Calvo and Campo has been woven apart from the president of the Government. Without your approval at least. The focus is on the first vice president.

A perception that also appears from the team of Pedro Sánchez, which completely dislodges the president of the crisis between the PSOE and United We can on account of the law of sexual crimes.

In La Moncloa, although they support Calvo, they believe that he has not succeeded in the strategy. "It is a mistake to engage with Podemos." "And it is another fundamental error that Iglesias goes out to tell the media" that those who corrected the draft are "repressed macho", say sources close to the chief executive.

"It has been a media ingenuity of United We, the vice president has not been right there." This Wednesday, Iglesias, after an act in the Complutense in which he suffered an escrache, lowered the tension, speaking of "feminist government from the first to the last member".

Four reasons to distrust Calvo

Despite the attempt that the waters return to their channel, in United We distrust Calvo. First, because they point her out as one of the main responsible parties for the failed government negotiation of 2019 and remember that she leaked a document of Podemos manipulated.

Second, because they believe that they have not digested the loss of the Equality competences to the detriment of Irene Montero. Third, because it controls the Council of Ministers, because it is in charge of the commission of secretaries of state and undersecretaries, which decides what goes and what does not go to the Council.

Government sources point out that Calvo would have made a final maneuver to block the law promoted by Montero on Monday morning, just 24 hours before it was seen in the Council of Ministers. And fourth, because in these two months of Government in some moments it has been shown that Sanchez has prioritized the positions defended by Iglesias.

The last few weeks have uncovered meetings and clashes between government partners. Some were latent, others have been supervening. Immigration, equality, education ... Cracks that open. In any case, in United We consider that these are isolated movements of ministers, not an orchestrated action from the socialist sector.

They believe that Calvo, Campo or Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for example, seek their own profile, safeguard their areas. But they appeal to the signed government pact and the fact that the relationship between Sánchez and Iglesias, as well as their teams, is fluid, constant, committed and effective to verify that the coalition walks.

Sánchez, regardless of the controversy

Sanchez, in continuous contact with Pablo Iglesias these days, minimizes the scope of the crisis and stays out of the controversy, with a Solomonic silence. "The Cabinet has not positioned itself against the decision of Carmen Calvo," sources familiar with the negotiations point out. "Everyone knows that we have nothing to do," says another senior Moncloa.

The sources consulted indicate that there are already socialist leaders who have alerted Sánchez about Calvo and the tensions it can generate.

On the socialist side, the mistake was, according to the government leaders consulted, to make public the discrepancies on the bill of the law of sexual freedom: "We have four years left and we must not enter into dialectical offenders; we must communicate calmly and go at a slower pace. "

In La Moncloa they take away the confrontation iron: "They are habitual dynamics; there is always ideological tension between the ministers of the coalition governments, and tangential friction between the ministerial powers."

Therefore, in the eyes of Sanchez's team, this crisis really shows that "the coalition is doing very well, despite the expectations of difficulty there was."

We can: "We are a united Government"

A vision that they share from United We can, where they do not deny discrepancies, but they give up this crisis. "We are a united government. The divisions that may have been resolved behind closed doors," Iglesias said.

The last blow to this controversy was insufflated hours before by Pablo Echenique, parliamentary spokesman for United We can, when answering thus questioned on the intervention of Justice in the law of sexual freedom.

"It has to do with a macho poso that still exists in our country, which seems that when prestigious women write a law it is necessary to come a machote to say: 'Do not worry that I explain to you how things are done,'" he said .

"There are no sexist ministers, here there is a feminist government from first to last," said Adriana Lastra , parliamentary spokesperson for the PSOE. From United We can consider that "the judicial system has a patriarchal bias," said Sofia Castañón , deputy spokesperson, referring to the United Nations Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

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