The Government bleeds to death for the 'only yes is yes' law, but rules out breaking: "There are only a few months left"

• Politics The PSOE breaks with Irene Montero and presents the 'yes is yes' reform alone

• Courts 10% of prisoners for sexual assault have already benefited from the Montero Law

The tension in the coalition government for the law of only yes is yes has reached its highest level.

The PSOE has registered this Monday in Congress its proposal to reform a rule that has benefited more than 400 sexual offenders and it did it alone, since it has not been able to reach an agreement with United We Can on how to put a dam on the cascade of downward sentence revisions.

Even so, Pedro Sánchez's team still hopes to seal a pact with the purple formation during the parliamentary process and obtain the support of the investiture bloc to approve its reform urgently this month.

"We have nothing to negotiate with the PP," they add, disdaining the outstretched hand of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to support it if it does not contain "any botch."

What the Socialists are proposing is to raise the maximum sentences for sexual crimes to resume those that were applied before the entry into force of the new law in October.

In Unidas Podemos, on the other hand, they are accused of wanting to "return to

of

" ignoring the feminist wave that rose up against the first sentence of multiple violence in Pamplona before its correction in the Supreme Court.

The open wound within the coalition on this matter is deep and bleeding, one of the most serious in the three years of the legislature, but, at least for now, it will not go any further.

The two government partners rule out a rupture - "there are only a few months left" - but the sources consulted do confirm a growing tension.

Specifically, since the approval of the Budgets in Congress on November 24.

In the PSOE they do not contemplate that Podemos abandon the

- "Where are they going to go!", socialist sources ironize - and the

consider that this confrontation for the only yes is yes justifies their presence in the Executive and that there are still rules important for them on the table yet to be approved.

"It would be throwing in the towel."

No one is in favor of divorcing, but there is a common thought: "The situation is tense."

There is expectation first to see how the socialist initiative is resolved, with what support it goes ahead, if it does go ahead - "Be careful not to trust the PP", admit government sources - and on the horizon a permanent scenario of swords held high is assumed, which will continue this Thursday with the vote on the

, which confronts the two partners for the inclusion/exclusion of hunting dogs.

In the coalition it is perceived that the clashes jump from sphere, from the quantitative to the qualitative: before there was a coincidence in the essence of the proposals, but each time the opposing positions have to do with the core of the texts and not with a number of further.

The lunge, in any case, is palpable.

In the socialist sector there is a lot of discomfort with Podemos due to its position and statements in recent days, trying to present it as a party that gives in to pressure.

"We do not give in to any pressure," they cry.

And they express that just as they gave in and lost the battle of the

law , now it has been up to Podemos.

The

, however, consider that Moncloa has not yielded in this negotiation and that the PSOE takes advantage of sensitive social and ideological issues to create tension.

stability image

Despite the fact that it is the most difficult moment that the bipartisan is going through, the break is not conceivable.

It is the message that is launched with and without microphones.

Sánchez has sold these years an image of stability and certainty in front of other European governments -Italy or the United Kingdom- and opposing the coalition to the regional executives of PP and Cs, all -except Andalusia- broken before their time.

Romper would tear down that story at the gates of the Spanish presidency of the EU.

Neither of the two partners advocates today for questioning coexistence in the Council of Ministers and, from both sectors, the tagline is added that even less at the gates of an election.

"The only thing that is wanted is that we all go hand in hand," expose socialist sources.

"There is a willingness to agree if it is possible," they say from Podemos.

The water is up to their necks, but they are still breathing.

In any case, the

have entered into an aggressive strategy of differentiation to revive electorally and gain weight against the PSOE and Yolanda Díaz.

They take each issue with the intention of placing the partner as a party whose legs are shaking or the vice president as someone who would not fight those battles without them.

To this he responds that they furiously attack big businessmen and banks, accusing them of "loan sharks" or raising the tone with the PSOE to the point of linking it to the theses of Vox and the PP in the law of

or in the animal welfare.

The paradox is that, despite the verbal and environmental escalation, Podemos is clinging tooth and nail to the Council of Ministers.

The leaders emphatically rule out resigning or leaving the Government on their own footing, with the mentality that whoever breaks appears later as guilty.

Thus, the premise is to hold on and tighten the ranks to win each pulse.

This atmosphere weakens Yolanda Díaz, who has made politics "without noise" and with a low tone, her great commitment and differentiation from Podemos.

But the vice president is seeing how to avoid each bullet fired by the purple party, even more so if they are missiles, because each topic always ends with the same questions: who is Díaz with?, what is she going to do?, does she support that position?

With the only yes is yes she presented her role as a kind of mediator to promote an agreement, but just yesterday Podemos refused to acknowledge that she had played that role.

fix a bug

In the socialist wing of the coalition they recognize that there has been an error in the elaboration of this norm because now the sentences can be higher for breaking a window to break into a house or stealing a wallet than for sexually assaulting a woman.

In addition, they insist that the only viable solution is the one they propose and consider that the alternative proposed by Podemos has little technical solvency.

"The increase in sentences is a political decision and in that you have to have courage, determination and do what has to be done," said the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, yesterday in a meeting with journalists.

«We build laws, not stories.

Judges apply laws, not stories.

And what changes people's lives are the laws, not the stories, "she added in implicit criticism of the purple partners.

Podemos, for its part, is going to try to find a parliamentary front with the investiture bloc to isolate the PSOE and leave it in the hands of the PP.

They do not consider the negotiation to be over and seek a global agreement that includes more measures outside the Penal Code to implement the yes is yes law.

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