Montero's 'number 2', subscriber to the scandals that Sánchez 'cannot' dismiss

• 'Run the mile' The 'Hall of shame' by Ángela Rodríguez 'Pam'

• Coalition The PSOE censors the 'number 2' of Equality, demands that she rectify for joking with gender violence and she justifies herself: "It is a hoax"

There was a mixture of disbelief and anger.

But the discomfort was and is patent.

And this time, given the seriousness and alarm at the rise in sexist murders that have been taking place in recent weeks, it was decided to respond, despite placing one more notch in the clashes between PSOE and United We Can.

But the Socialists wanted to demonstrate distance and censorship, if not disavowal, towards the words, in a joking tone, that the Secretary of State for Equality,

, pronounced about the cascade of reductions in sentences for sexual offenders after the law of

.

"Unfortunate", "very serious", "unjustifiable".

This is how they were described by the PSOE and socialist ministers.

A rectification is required that the

of Equality ignores.

Moreover, it hides behind the argument of the "hoax" and "manipulation".

The Socialists, yes, avoid asking for his dismissal or resignation.

The distribution of power of the coalition ties the hands of the PSOE: in the United Podemos quota the purple ones decide and, in this case, the last word belongs to Yolanda Díaz, who in her difficult understanding and coexistence with Podemos is not for the work to force drastic decisions that further shake their relationship and the health of the coalition itself.

In La Moncloa, and especially within the PSOE, the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders is a matter of concern.

And the words of the number two of Equality do nothing but deepen again the fracture that the law of

causes in the Executive.

Socialist ministers, in addition to territorial leaders, opted to modify the norm in the face of unintended consequences.

Equality stood up and opposed touching a comma.

Pedro Sánchez himself opened the door to change it, assuming the "social alarm" of the situation that had occurred.

But the Government, at least to this day, has given up on that possibility and is not contemplating changes, trusting everything to the Supreme Court establishing doctrine towards its interests.

"Do pedagogy"

In the socialist sector they believe that the law "has been poorly explained" from the beginning.

The focus was placed on the punitive aspect when the norm offers a much broader and more comprehensive protection to women.

For this reason, and as a result of the crisis caused by the reduction in sentences, from La Moncloa they rolled up their sleeves to “do pedagogy”.

Forced by the President of the Government, ranks were closed with Equality and an attempt was made to expose the benefits and advances of the legal text.

But the crack now opens again after the words of the number two of Irene Montero.

«From the creators of 'people are going to go to the registry to change their sex every morning' comes... 'The rapists on the street!'

(...) Thousands, waves", was one of the comments that Rodríguez made, between laughs, during his participation in a round table organized this week by Podemos under the slogan

.

Socialist ministers like

,

or

made her words ugly.

They disapproved of her tone.

"It is a subject that should not be trivialized."

"They are not a few words or a lucky tone," summarized government sources.

Words are unjustifiable, even more so at this time.

must rectify

«Words are unjustifiable.

They are not up to the responsibility that a position of such importance entails, especially at this time.

It must be rectified, ”launched

, PSOE Secretary of Equality.

But the reproach remains there.

The PSOE, despite the discomfort, is careful to cross the border to demand responsibilities, dismissal or resignation.

It would be opening the box of thunder at the starting signal for the pre-campaign in this election year.

Unravel a crisis of unforeseen consequences with your partner.

The PSOE rules in its ministries and United We Can in theirs.

That, in principle, ties La Moncloa.

"Fake News and Manipulations"

And this despite the fact that if Rodríguez's words produced anger and astonishment, his reaction did even more, which, far from qualifying or rectifying what was expressed, attributed it to "hoaxes, false news and manipulations, which ridicule and misrepresent the policies of Equality ».

A parapet that Minister Irene Montero supported.

From the PSOE they showed their astonishment when verifying that his statements can be seen and heard and that his intervention forces them to "apologize" and "retract" at least.

It was not understood or understood that he was joking with a matter such as convictions for gender violence and even less that he used the umbrella of "manipulation", being verifiable what he said and how he said it.

It is not the first controversy involving Rodríguez (Pontevedra, 1989), from the Galician branch of Podemos.

Before the first requests for a downward review of sentences for sexual crimes in application of the new norm, on October 19 he wrote on his

: «Let us remember that in this type of news that we are seeing lawyers who try to the sentences are lowered are the lawyers of the alleged rapists.

They are macho propaganda, a desperate attempt by the defense.

A month later, when they began to take effect, he criticized those who had "the face to say" that it was "a problem of the Ministry of Equality" instead of, in his opinion, "a problem of interpretation of

."

"The first thing that the General Council of the Judiciary has done is to say that perhaps the

is wrong and not train its judges in gender matters," he denounced in an appearance in Congress.

"Form yourselves, judges, form yourselves!", came to proclaim the Secretary of State for Equality, who has a degree in Philosophy.

also came out of his department,

which raised a lot of dust.

In one of them, to demand a summer "without stereotypes or aesthetic violence" against bodies, two British models denounced that photos of them had been used without their consent and that one of them had even had her prosthetic leg erased in the plagiarism.

In the other, men were encouraged to live a new type of masculinity more committed to feminism and co-responsibility at home and which was launched under the slogan

in reference to the macho expression coined by

to refer to these people.

Montero 's

was appointed Secretary of State for Equality -with a salary of 119,566 euros- in September 2021, replacing

after announcing her withdrawal from politics.

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