ERC, PNV, EH Bildu and even JxCAT, which is not a permanent partner of the Executive in Congress, agree that the law needs to be improved so that there is no room for legal interpretations that reduce penalties.
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The parliamentary allies who supported the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez see the need to retouch the law of the only yes is yes to avoid “fissures” and that there is no reduced sentence for those convicted of sex crimes within their minimum limits. Meanwhile, Podemos has deepened its support for Equality Minister Irene Montero.
ERC, PNV, EH Bildu and even JxCATwhich is not a regular partner of the executive branch in Congress, agree that the law needs to be improved so that there is no room for legal interpretations that reduce penalties.
The PNV sees clearly that the Supreme Court unites criteria and “corrects” the “mistake of parliament not to have included a transitional provision in the legal text that leaves no room for judges”.
The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Estebanhas opted in an interview in RNE for a “retouching” of the law if necessary as the situation “deserves reflection”, while also asking for “moderation” from the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, in her statements against the judges in order “not to turn everything into some kind of ideological battle”.
From EH Bildu, his deputy Oscar Mate He has also been in favor of preventing cracks in the law that only yes is yes.
“If there are any jurists who point out that there are cracks or vanishing points in that law that don’t allow for what feminism has fought and fought for so many times and can’t be protected as it deserves, let it improve,” she said in a congressional conference press after defending that the new norm is “a law of quantitative and qualitative improvement in the dignity of women’s lives.”
For his part, Can He has proclaimed that the law will emerge strengthened from the controversy over the reduction of sentences issued by several judges, a controversy that serves to “portray” the progressive politicians who are now “squatting” against the norm, following the position of barons of the PSOE. and More Madrid favorable to make corrections to the standard.
The party, in turn, has insisted that the legal text contains no gaps, as some jurists point out and see in the criteria of the Court of La Rioja of not reducing sentences, and emphasizes that the problem is the “sexist bias” of part of the judiciary.
The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has predicted that the “reactionary storm” will pass over the law, leaving only the consolidation of rights and feminist progress. Moreover, he has judged that these days have served only for “many to portray themselves”, also “in progressivism”.
“I understand that it is now very greedy of certain progressive politicians to crack down on the ‘only yes is yes’ law (…) but I would like to ask for its curtailment,” Echenique launched without making any specific allusion.
Some have been quick to come out asking for a “transitional provision” to see if that’s the case, in the heat of the media manhunt against @Irene Montero, they went to the news and promoted their political profile. Well, it turns out that this transitional provision already exists in the Criminal Code. How do you stay? pic.twitter.com/4MCJ3JafyX
— Pablo Echenique (@Pablo Echenique) November 17, 2022
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