The national debate sneaks back into the Valencian agenda. It seems that the parties on the left are taking advantage of any disagreement in the central government to replicate these differences and mark distances in a pre-election race that looks very long. This week the lack of agreement between the members of the central Executive regarding the Law of ‘only yes is yes’, has served, once again, for the left to throw things at their heads.
The position of the PP that this Saturday has called rallies to protest the effects of the Law is understood, but unless the partners take advantage of it to further stress the situation. Yesterday the trustee of the PP in Les Corts, María José Catalá, attacked Puig with this question: “If there is a silence that hurts, it is the one that maintains with the law of yes is yes, for months when they have not demanded that they modify the law. The worst thing is that it remains silent about the pain felt by the victims of sexual assaults because of the Law; it has no response to the 55 people who are threatened in the Valencian Community for the reduced sentence of their rapists and abusers ” .
After the control session with the president of the Generalitat, the second vice-president of the Consell, Héctor Illueca, who has taken a liking to using the corridors of the Hemicycle to generate debates, came out in defense of the norm and indirectly criticized the councilor for Justice, Gabriela Bravo, who the day before had pointed out that they have reacted “late” with the reform of the law and that “we must not look the other way and we must apologize.” “A law that has been sold to give a more forceful response, with more support for the victims, has generated a lot of disappointment,” pointed out one of the women with the most weight in the Consell.
Illueca asked political representatives for “prudence” in their statements on this rule, as well as to avoid “statements that create insecurity for women.” “The new law guarantees that if there is no consent, it is rape,” she added.
More forceful against the socialist leader was the Podem candidate for Alicante, María Teresa Pérez. On social networks, the also co-spokesperson for Podemos was not shy: “The PSPV is always stopping feminist advances. They tried it with the Trans Law and now they want to return to the Penal Code of La Manada, placing violence at the center, that the victims show injuries to prove that they were assaulted.”
Also the position of Compromís and its candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Joan Baldoví, to open up to “touch up” the law and try to reach an agreement to avoid the consequences of the regulations has served the purple ones to accuse them of little feminists in the networks.
And it is that a point has been reached where it seems that, as the calendar progresses and the electoral campaign approaches, any question is a good excuse for the parties of the Valencian left to show their discrepancies in public.