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The Bureau of the Congress has approved with the votes of the two formations that support the Government, PSOE and United We Can, to extend in principle one more week the deadline for the presentation of amendments to the bill with which the Socialists intend to correct the so-called law of only yes is yes. This has been confirmed by the parliamentary spokesman of UP, Pablo Echenique.

The justification provided by the purple party is to have more time to try to reach a common position, something that however they did not achieve throughout the three months – since the beginning of December – during which the two partners of the coalition government negotiated to try to jointly agree on a rectification of the norm in order to stop the reductions of sentences and the releases of sex offenders. At this point, Echenique calls on the PSOE to "let go of the hand of the right".

The refusal of the Ministry of Equality to accept any readjustment for implying, in its opinion, eliminating the principle of consent from the core of the law, made the negotiations fail and forced the Socialist group, by express mandate of the President of the Government, to urgently present a proposal of law, which was accepted for processing by the Plenary of the Congress with the vote in favor of the PP and the resounding opposition of Unidas Podemos and the Partners of the investiture bloc.

The proposal thus initiated the parliamentary procedure with a view to its final adoption as a matter of urgency. However, this procedure, which in principle was intended to be accelerated, has already been postponed for three weeks. Today, the Socialist Group has supported the claim of the junior partner of the Government, Unidas Podemos, to extend again the debate and the vote in committee, a decisive step for the rectification of the law to become a reality.

From Unidas Podemos they claim to be negotiating with their parliamentary allies, ERC and EH Bildu, to present joint amendments to the bill with the aim of keeping intact the principle of consent, a principle that, according to the PSOE, is not touched with its rectification proposal.

At the moment, with the extensions of the amendment period, a method of parliamentary filibustering used when it is intended to get a proposal to end up declining, what is achieved is to delay the rectification of the star law of Equality that has already facilitated more than 700 sentence reductions and fifty releases of sex offenders.

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