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Pedro Sánchez has admitted before his parliamentary group meeting in Congress that the Only Yes is Yes Law has generated a "problem" with the continuous reductions in sentences for those convicted of sexual assault and has advocated "dialogue" to resolve it.

"It is a good law", said the president, "but after a few months of its entry into force it has had some unwanted effects. And I fall short, because nobody had the objective of lowering the sentence of any aggressor. It was neither the goal or purpose. Now the question is what is done and the answer is to use dialogue to solve the problem."

Consequently, Sánchez has assured that the PSOE "will do what has to be done, the right thing, which is", he stressed, "defend the progress that the law implies but correct the problem so that it does not produce any reduction of sentence".

The President of the Government and Secretary General of the Socialists has not made any express mention of the division that this issue has caused within the Government, openly confronting the Ministries of Equality and Justice, nor has he referred to the solution proposed by his group in Congress through a bill.

He has chosen to place himself above all of this, limiting himself to advocating dialogue to correct the consequences of a rule to which he gave his approval and which has generated obvious social alarm.

Sánchez preferred to recall the "historical commitment of the PSOE to the feminist movement" and, in this sense, has ensured that all the advances that have been made in defense of equality between men and women have been signed by his party and, therefore, On the contrary, they have counted on the rejection of the opposition.

"The feminist agenda", she has insisted, "pervades, by decision of this Government, the entire political transformation agenda."

The rest of his speech has focused on highlighting the virtues of his management and his influence in Europe and disqualifying the PP, a party, he said, that "has no ideas, no project, only insults"

The president expressed himself in this way on the same day that the spokesmen for the parliamentary groups that usually support the Executive have shown themselves to be very reluctant to anticipate their support for the Socialists' bill to try to correct the law of only if it is Yeah.

None of them have taken their support for granted, quite the contrary, many have warned of the risk of neglecting the principle of consent as a key in cases of sexual assault and have also been reluctant to increase penalties - punitive populism , they call it- because they consider that with more punishment, sexist violence is not stopped or crime is stopped.

This is how they have expressed themselves from ERC to Bildu, through Más País and Compromís.

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