Congress passes law to abolish prostitution

Euskaraz irakurri: Prostituzioa abolitzeko lehen urratsa eman du Espainiako Kongresuak

The PSOE has managed to make progress with its bill to amend the Criminal Code to: forbid pimping in all its forms with the votes for the PP and Podemos, but it failed to convince the common people, who voted against, nor its partners in Congress. PNV, EH Bildu and PDeCAT have decided to abstain, while ERC, Junts and CUP have voted against. Citizens also voted ‘no’ and Vox chose to abstain.

During the debate, the deputy secretary general of the Socialists said, Adriana Lastra, has stated that the PSOE initiative aims that “after decades women are the sole owners of their own lives” and that exploitation of women has no place in society. “In a democracy, women are not bought or sold,” she stated.

Lastra has assured that his formation is willing to “collaborate with groups that share the goal of ending pimps” in the country and has criticized those formations that deem the socialists “naive” or “puritan”. have labeled. “We know what we’re dealing with,” Lastra stated, before noting that sexual exploitation “is a multi-billion dollar business in the country.”

This speech was also defended by the spokesperson for Equality of the PP, Martha Gonzalezwho are “tired” of hearing arguments from other parties, such as that prostitution is “a sterile debate”, that it “must be realistic” because “prostitution has been around since the dawn of history” or “because it is impossible to eradicate it” and its existence is inevitable”, that it is “a lesser evil that must be tolerated so that men can have their sexual needs” or that “there are also women who consume and men who practice it” , among others.

Who also supported the processing of this text is Can, whose spokesman in the debate, Deputy Sofía Castañón, has focused on technical issues of the standard. As for the meaning of his voice, he explained that the purple is convinced of the need for an agreement on sexual exploitation.

However, the PSOE’s executive partner was the only party of the confederate group in Congress to give its favorable vote to the socialists. the representatives of In Comu Podemwith the exception of Deputy Ismael Cortés, has decided to vote no to the processing of this initiative, recognizing that the solution to this phenomenon is not a “punitivist” perspective.

This is one of the arguments most frequently used by other formations that have also not supported the PSOE in this proposal.

The PSOE proposal does not convince ERC, EH Bildu and PNV

So says the spokesperson for CKD Pilar Vallugera on equality has assured that the initiative has “prohibitions and punishment like that of all life” and has criticized the main ruling party for not taking advantage of the current majority to reform the immigration law and prevent women from entering an illegal situation. are forced to be exploited and that they are also currently subject to the gag law.

Also EH Picturehas pointed out through his spokesperson on the matter, Bel Pozueta, that his formation does not share “to tackle such a complex issue solely from the punitive perspective” and explained that the penal code is not “to impose morality around sexuality of a society”.

For the spokesperson for Equality GDPJoseba Agirretxea, this “is not a matter of good and bad guys” or of people “with better or worse morals” and has regretted that the socialists are presenting this bill in this way.

In this sense, he reminded him that they are in the executive branch and that “they have in their hands the Ministry of Justice and the Interior” with whom, in his opinion, they could have made an arrangement with “guarantees, reports and notes and not rushing and running.”