The PP is not going to forgive Irene Montero, but not so much because of the words that the Minister of Equality pronounced in Congress on Wednesday accusing the popular of promoting the culture of rape, and not because they do not think it is serious, on the contrary, They feel aggrieved, but they try not to divert the focus from what they consider to be the real problem and for which the minister must assume responsibilities, the reduction of sentences for those convicted of sexual crimes. For this reason, the PP insists and will insist on asking Sánchez to assume political responsibilities and dismiss the minister, since they know that she will not resign. His initiative will be to immediately bring a motion of disapproval against Montero, so that Congress can pronounce itself.
More than a hundred PP deputies and senators gathered this afternoon on the stairs of the Congress of Deputies with red ties on their lapels and a banner calling for what the popular have been demanding for two weeks, the modification of the law known as the Law of Yes is Yes, due to the effects it is producing in the application of the new sentences to those convicted under the previous Penal Code.
“No to the reduction of sentences for sexual crimes, rectification now!” said the banner that the PP parliamentarians kept silent for a few minutes, although on the opposite sidewalk shouts of “Montero resignation” could be heard, from some of them. the citizens who gather daily in front of Congress to protest for everything.
A cry, that of “Montero resignation”, that the PP wanted to avoid at all times, and that is why it did not take it to the banner, since it did not want to divert attention from what it considers to be the weak point of the Minister Montero and what can put her in trouble. It is not that the PP does not ask for that resignation, it was done after the rally by the spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, who together with her Senate counterpart, Javier Maroto, led the rally, but not before stressing that they have already 43 have been convicted of sexual crimes who have seen their sentences reduced, which can no longer be prevented, but “there is something that can be done,” he stressed so that it does not continue to happen.
The Popular Group focuses on the need to “rectify the law so that no sexual offender is sentenced to lesser sentences”, and because “victims need public powers to protect them”. For the PP “it is time to rectify” and the responsibility for whether or not it is done is, in Gamarra’s opinion, the President of the Government, who “must assume responsibility when consequences are produced from his actions” such as those they are watching.
Some consequences that have caused, in the opinion of the popular spokesperson, “a social alarm” for which the President of the Government should “apologize”, “reform the law and dismiss the Minister of Equality, above his Government agreements to continue in La Moncloa”. Cuca Gamarra made it clear that the so-called Yes is Yes Law “has positive things that cannot be ignored”, but it also has “negative things that must be changed”, which is why they are asking for its rectification, but not its repeal.
The PP will continue with its demands against Minister Montero, and for this reason, in addition to the disapproval that they will present in Congress, it will send a letter to the Government to protest the words of the head of Equality, for “her unworthy words”, in those who accused the PP of promoting the culture of rape.
Regarding the possibility of taking legal action against the minister, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, pointed out this morning that the party will look “if there is any legal possibility” against the Minister of Equality Irene Montero, although he already pointed out that the issues in the sphere of the Chamber have “many guarantees for a deputy or for a minister”. However, the people’s spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, made it clear that “Minister Montero knows that there is no room for a complaint,” since she is protected by law, but for that reason she will request the disapproval.
And it is that article 71 of the Constitution establishes that “the Deputies and Senators will enjoy inviolability for the opinions expressed in the exercise of their functions”, and article 10 of the Regulations of Congress collects almost verbatim what the Magna Carta establishes : “The Deputies will enjoy inviolability, even after having ceased their mandate, for the opinions expressed in the exercise of their functions.”
