Alvaro Carvajal Madrid

Madrid

Updated Wednesday, March 6, 2024-11:25

For now,

Spain will not follow the example of

France

in its historic decision to protect the right to abortion in the constitution.

The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has ruled out promoting an identical initiative from the Government because she considers that at this moment "the necessary political conditions do not exist" to approve it, since there is no "very broad consensus" that the Magna Carta requires for a reform of this magnitude.

Without mentioning it expressly, Redondo refers to the

PP

and the objections it has historically placed on this matter.

From the unconstitutionality appeal that he presented against Zapatero's deadline law, a rule that was finally endorsed by the Constitutional Court in February 2023, to the opposition that he maintained in the reform of the abortion law, which was approved by the Cortes on last year.

Without the

popular ones

, today the two-thirds of Congress that is needed to carry out a constitutional change could not be achieved.

Regardless of what

Vox

did , which has a position that is categorically anti-abortion.

Asked about this issue during the presentation of the Ministry of Equality's institutional campaign for 8-M, Redondo praised the step taken by France but stressed that "the important thing" is to "focus efforts" so that the right to abortion can be be exercised by women "with freedom" throughout the territory.

The Minister of Equality has indicated that the procedure for reforming the Constitution is "very demanding" in terms of the steps to be taken and the "consensus and majorities" that are required.

He has reviewed that it implies a first approval by Congress with a "very important majority", the dissolution of the Cortes for new elections, then a new approval "by two thirds" and, finally, a referendum for it to be ratified by the set of Spaniards.

It is an "intense" process, he stressed, that "requires enormous consensus."

Something that he considers that today "is not happening" in Spanish society.

"At this moment the conditions do not exist to initiate the aggravated procedure [of constitutional reform]," he said.

For this reason, it has advocated for developing the new abortion law and demanding, as guaranteed by said norm, that the autonomous communities facilitate the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in public healthcare and close to the woman's home, with medical personnel available in each healthcare center. of the public network.