On October 7, the Law for the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom came into force, better known as the law of only yes is yes.

One of the emblematic norms of the Government and especially of Equality, which, however, has caused the reduction of sentences for more than 200 sexual offenders, has generated "social alarm" as the Executive itself acknowledges, and pressure towards Unidas Podemos and Irene Montero, from the PSOE and the left formations to retouch it and try to stop the erosion that the Government is producing.

Finally and after months of resisting, refusing to touch a comma, Equality agrees to retouch the norm.

The permanent and constant trickle of reduced sentences for sexual offenders is a Malaysian drop in the image of the Government.

In La Moncloa they admit that it is a problem that hurts them and that it affects the Executive.

Socialist territorial leaders, PSOE ministers, leaders of other left-wing formations... the pressure towards Unidas Podemos and Irene Montero has been growing as more cases of reductions became known.

A consensus and a common position have been built demanding that the Executive do something.

Within the PSOE it is a matter that has caused great caution, bothering the inaction and the fact that United We Can be allowed to impose its position, due to the cost it could have in the next municipal and regional elections.

In the socialist sector there was discomfort with the position of Unidas Podemos and there was an urge to undertake changes or improvements to try to correct the course, to convey the message that they did not remain impassive in the face of the "social alarm".

Sources from Podemos have reported this Saturday that the Government has not stopped looking for formulas so that the law is applied correctly, "sharing the social concern for the decisions of those judges who are deciding to reduce sentences. We continue working on it", they have indicated.

However, in the purple there is some discomfort due to the pressure of the socialists: "Today there is no agreement on a valid solution. The PSOE is under pressure to return to the previous model and that consent ceases to be the center of the penal code ", they object.

Likewise, the closure of Equality to not opening up to a modification caused discomfort.

The concern forced a first movement from La Moncloa, from the socialist sector, creating a working group between Justice and Equality to address possible "technical changes" in the Law, which, however, did not have the desired progress.

And it is that after the assumption and acceptance that the law is going to be changed to avoid wear and tear, what the Executive will now work on is how to do it, because as they admit from the Government "the transitory law has already been consolidated", of so that the possibility of the inmates benefiting from the lighter sentences that have been imposed is established.

"What we are analyzing and working on is to develop the measures provided by law for the greater protection of victims, which is what this law has always sought," said Pilar Llop, Minister of Equality just a few days ago.

Now we are analyzing the response that the courts are giving because the transitory law is already consolidated and there could not be a subsequent rule that could modify this transitory situation."

Pedro Sánchez himself, in an informal conversation with journalists on December 6, opened up to make some technical adjustments, given the trickle of sales and the negative impact that this circumstance has for the Government.

However, the closure of Equality and the acceptance of not taking the pulse of an unsustainable situation forced the socialist sector of the Executive to turn its speech in recent weeks, to close ranks with the regulations, and to convey a public message that the law it was not going to be touched, that it had to be explained and that, in any case, they were waiting for the Supreme Court to establish jurisprudence.

"The law of only yes is yes is solid. Logically we share the concern that Spanish society has for these judicial decisions with reductions in sentences, which do not correspond to the will and the spirit of the legislator. We are busy doing everything that is in our hands and it is necessary to guarantee a correct application of the law", defended this same Friday the minister Irene Montero, after the meeting of the crisis committee to deal with the latest sexist murders.

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