Sources from Moncloa have confirmed this Saturday that the Government, as La Vanguardia had already announced, is working on the best formula to “perfect” the law of only yes is yes, given the perverse consequences of the application of this rule by of some judges that is causing a constant trickle of reductions in sentences for sexual offenders since its entry into force.
The President of the Government himself, Pedro Sánchez, already assumed last December the need to explore the legal and technical mechanisms that could counteract this unwanted judicial application of a law, promoted by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, as a star government project of Podemos, who in the PSOE have also warned that they may have a high electoral bill, given the imminent appointments with the polls.
In Moncloa, however, they have emphasized, first of all, that “the law of yes is yes is a good law, a conquest of the feminist movement, created to better protect victims and criminalize sexist attitudes that were not previously They were considered that way.”
However, they have recognized that “we have verified some unwanted effects and we are aware of and share the social concern regarding this issue.” Sánchez himself makes the flag of his feminist policies, as demonstrated by the forceful reaction that he promoted to stop the anti-abortion protocol that Vox tried to impose on the regional executive of Castilla y León, the only one in Spain where the ultra-right is part of a government chaired by the People’s Party.
But in the Government they have also admitted that pressing the right key to try to correct these unwanted effects of the Sexual Freedom law is not an easy task. “Addressing this situation responsibly requires careful attention, because it is complex from a technical point of view”, they have recognized in Moncloa.
“Precisely for this reason, very serious and rigorous work is being carried out, since the first judicial resolutions were known, to guarantee that it does not happen again, resolving the problems detected in the future,” Sánchez’s cabinet has reported. Where they insist on reducing the open tensions in this regard between the PSOE and United We Can within the Executive.
“The two parties of the coalition government, in full harmony, are aware of this situation and we want to contribute together to resolve it by working hand in hand with the Minister for Equality at all times”, they highlighted in Moncloa.
