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There are no more doubts.

The open crisis within the coalition for the reform of the so-called 'only yes is yes' law is the most serious that the Government is facing.

The swords, far from being sheathed, are at the top and the purposes of understanding that the PSOE and United We Can try to convey collide with the public staging of unleashed confrontation.

The socialist sector accuses the purple of "confusing public opinion";

and they respond that the socialists with their unilateral proposal eliminate consent as the center of the Law of Guarantees of Sexual Freedom.

The crisis has suffered a new escalation this Tuesday after the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, assured that it is "very easy to prove that there is violence or intimidation" in a sexual assault because "

The PSOE defends that its proposal to reform the 'only yes is yes' law, which Podemos rejects, implies a "technical readjustment" of the norm because, as explained by Minister Llop, "there has been a mismatch in the penalties that It has been evidenced in the reviews and you have to think about the victims because it is a very serious situation since there have been many reductions in sentences and even releases of sexual offenders and a response was necessary".

The head of Justice, in an interview on the Ser channel, has accused Podemos - taking care, yes, not to name them explicitly - of "confusing public opinion" by stating that it is going back to the previous model, the one that was in force when the sexual assault of 'the herd' happened and that consent is no longer at the center.

"The consent remains absolutely intact," Llop has defended.

"It is not going back to previous models because we maintain the unification - there is no longer aggression and abuse, everything is classified as aggression - and the formula of consent."

However, to defend the position of the PSOE, the minister has exposed a reflection that has unleashed the anger, discomfort and criticism of Podemos, showing that the crisis, far from being channeled, is getting worse, despite the fact that both defend that "there is room for of understanding".

"Now if it is shown that there is violence or intimidation, it is very easy to prove it, because with a wound you can already prove that there has been violence, that is no longer necessary for the victim to prove that there has been consent."

The reflection has fueled the attack and censorship of Podemos to the PSOE, where ministers and officials have come out in a rush to defend their position and charge against that of the socialists.

"If proving violence in a sexual assault is so simple, why in 2021 of 4,000 sentences only 500 women were able to prove it? Again the focus on women, how much we resist, if we close our legs. It is the model of the herd, not that of consent", has exposed the minister Ione Belarra.

"And what happens if there is no injury? Is it assumed that consent has been given? It will have to be shown that it has not. In other words, this reform returns to the previous model", the Secretary of State for the 2023 Agenda, Lilith Verstrynge, has ugly to Llop .

"We do not want a penal model in which to demonstrate an aggression our injuries matter more than our will. That is the problem of violence as a sufficient element to prove a sexual assault, influencing an inertia that if it did not see injuries, it saw consent" , has deepened Ángela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for Equality.

The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has not spoken, but she has supported the messages of her colleagues on social networks.

Llop, who has not hidden his discomfort with the position and public messages that Podemos conveys in this matter, has sent a message to his partners in the face of the criticism they raise for reforming the penalties including violence and intimidation as a subtype.

"There is one thing that worries me. It is not acceptable that in our country, which is a pioneer in the fight against gender violence, with this law there has been a reduction in sentences and that it is cheaper to sexually assault a woman with violence than stealing".

To support this argument, he has detailed that robbery with violence or intimidation is punishable by 2 to 5 years in prison and sexual assault with violence, with a penalty of 1 to 4 years.

Another argument that causes the clash with Podemos.

"You said sexual assault with violence (groping and beating, specifically) more punishable than a robbery with violence. I understand that hearing that causes alarm, but fortunately it is not like that; it is a mistake, it is not correct. He would not have missed it to the Government, nor to the other State bodies", Victoria Rosell, a Government delegate against Gender Violence, responded on her social networks.

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