Podemos would agree to raise the minimum sentences but rejects the PSOE proposal because the 'yes is yes' law "is loaded"

• Government The PSOE ignores Montero and will present a bill to "correct" the "yes is yes" "immediately"

• Equality Irene Montero marks La Moncloa's red line: "We will do everything necessary to guarantee that consent remains at the center of the Penal Code"

The exhaustion of the PSOE and the explicit order of Pedro Sánchez to appease the "social concern" for the unwanted effects of the law of

have forced the

to negotiate changes and, even, to accept for the first time and after months of denial the possibility of raising the minimum sentences.

In other words, addressing the cause behind the more than 300 sentence reductions for sexual offenders since it came into force.

This increase in minimum sentences is one of the counteroffers launched by the Ministry led by Irene Montero to the PSOE in order to deactivate the proposal made by the

to "correct" the law, which Podemos flatly rejects and which insults vehemently for "returning to a scheme" that "destroys" the "heart" of the law of the

because, it is emphasized, it recovers intimidation and violence as axes and displaces consent as a response to judge sexual assaults.

For this reason, the reaction of the Ministry of Equality to the announced PSOE bill was emphatic.

"We are not going to accept any proposal that puts that consent model at stake, which is a conquest of the feminist movement," said the Secretary of State for Equality,

.

In other words, if the PSOE wants to propose as an initiative in

a text identical to the one drafted by the Ministry of Justice, the position of United We Can be to oppose it fiercely.

That politically would imply a confrontation between partners even more serious than that of the trans law or other issues.

Well, the law of the

is the standard norm of Podemos in this Government.

And it would push the PSOE to support itself, possibly, on the PP.

However, in Equality they are confident that there is room for agreement and that their will to save the negotiation without reaching a more serious scenario.

secret negotiation

The story of this disagreement broke out definitively last December, when Moncloa ordered to stop the bleeding of image that the Executive was suffering with the continuous trickle of reductions in sentences without offering public opinion the story that it was doing something to remedy it.

It was specifically on the 8th, in full bridge of the Constitution, when Justice showed Equality its proposal to change the law and forced a negotiation that has remained secret until now.

When it has been seen that the two partners are stuck in their positions on the depth of the changes.

To begin with, Equality does not want to change the text of the norm and clings to the fact that there is a problem of an "incorrect interpretation" of the law by a "minority" of judges, who is not applying the norm as it should.

However, and although Equality has a decalogue of proposals to help this "implementation", Montero has already assumed that the law of

going to have to be changed and that it will affect the

.

For this reason, the Justice proposal, which they insist on rejecting as it is, was answered in December by Irene Montero with up to three different offers to modify the Penal Code "that can help avoid less interpretation in the future" by the judges.

Because whatever is done, the condemned have the right to take advantage of the most beneficial law, regardless of its time in force.

For this reason, Equality recognizes that its proposals, including that of Justice, "will not resolve today's situation" but they could "alleviate the situation of social concern" that exists today.

The most important offer of the three was to raise the minimum sentences.

Of the other two, one was to locate the transitory right in the preliminary title of the law "so that it is not questioned" and the other did not want to specify the delegate against gender violence,

.

None of these three offers was accepted and Justice remains immovable in changing part of the criminal scheme, retaking violence and intimidation as factors to determine the highest and lowest sentences.

"We cannot allow that model," said Rodríguez, who assured that the "regression of women" is at stake.

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