The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended the “only yes is yes” law promoted by the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, which has caused some courts to lower sentences for some sexual offenders and has advocated that the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts unify doctrine and create jurisprudence before making any decision in this regard, appealing to their “sensitivity”.
He said this at a press conference at the end of the G-20 summit in Bali (Indonesia) when asked by journalists about the new classification of sexual crimes introduced by the organic law for the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom, known as law of “only yes is yes”.
“The will of the executive power and the legislative power was to reinforce the security of women by extending all sexual crimes as sexual assault and therefore that there would be more aggravated penalties,” the president acknowledged before the reductions in sentences for aggressors known yesterday, some facts that the government delegate against gender violence, Victoria Rosell, attributed to a “reactionary and surprising” reading of the norm by the judges.
“We are going to see what the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts say and that they unify doctrine and then we will have to see what steps to take”, indicated the President of the Government after the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, pleaded yesterday to study “with detention” both the sentences and the law itself.
Asked explicitly about Rosell’s words, Sánchez has shown himself convinced of the “sensitivity” of the judges and has reiterated that “the courts must be allowed to work and especially those that unify the doctrine” and has defended the norm as “a great conquest of the feminist movement in this country” at the same time that he has shown himself convinced that the text “will inspire many laws in the world”.
