The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has denied this Friday that the coalition with Unidas Podemos is in danger due to the disagreements in the reform of the law of only yes is yes and has assured that he has confidence in “all his ministers”, after the clash open between the head of Equality, Irene Montero, and the head of Justice, Pilar Llop, on this issue.
By expressly asking him if he continues to support Irene Montero, the head of the Executive has guaranteed that he continues to trust all the members of his Cabinet, “of course also – he has specified – in the Minister of Equality”.
“I already tell you no. It is not contemplated”, the President of the Government has categorically indicated when asked at a press conference from Brussels after the European summit about the possible rupture of the Executive.
Sánchez has emphasized that in everything related to the Law for the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, the most important thing is not the political debate, but not to forget the victims and convey solidarity to them with words and deeds. “Nobody wanted this situation, these unwanted effects of this important law. I regret this situation,” he added.
In his opinion, what must be done now is to preserve the progress that the law implies regarding the issue of consent and protection of victims, and to review a “technical issue” that allows the reduction of sentences that has created the “alarm” to be resolved. social”. He believes that it is an obligation and that is what, as he has assured, the proposal made by the Ministry of Justice makes and has been embodied in a bill of the socialist group in Congress.
Given the possibility that he has considered mediating between two ministries, Justice and Equality, which have not been able to reach an agreement on the reform of the law, he has referred to that negotiation that should now be in Parliament and after which he believes that “all groups” have to solve the alarm generated.
“If there is something that unites the parliamentary groups, it is not reducing the penalties and adapting them to situations such as those that unfortunately happen,” Sánchez insisted, without assessing that the reform could end up being approved with the Popular Party, a scenario that The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, assessed this Thursday.
On the contrary, he has stressed that the coalition government continues and this Thursday has continued to advance on its roadmap with the approval in Congress of the animal welfare law, which he has said places Spain at the European forefront and that ” does not exclude any animal in a matter of mistreatment and abandonment”.
“After almost two hundred laws and three general State budgets in a context as adverse and as complex as the one we are experiencing, first with the pandemic and later with the war, the progressive coalition government can be recognized as having provided stability for respond to many causes and effects of these crises,” he added.
He has also highlighted that it is to the credit of the Executive to promote an agenda of social and economic transformations marked out in the investiture speech and in the coalition agreement.
