The PSOE has once again recovered the bill it presented in the last legislature and which is behind the schism experienced then between the socialist feminists and those of Podemos (along with the ‘trans’ law), by betting on the abolition of prostitution , yes, completely leaving the women who carry out this activity on the sidelines. This same afternoon he presented the bill that punishes pimping in any of its forms, including family members, and those who rent or provide a place to practice prostitution. It also goes against clients, whom it penalizes with financial fines, as long as the woman is not a minor. In that case, the punishment will be jail.
“We registered the bill to eliminate all forms of pimping. It was already presented in the last legislature, but it failed. It is a very important text. According to interior data, more than 40,000 women are in a situation of prostitution, something incompatible with the State of right like ours. Prostitution is a form of violence against women that the State Pact encourages us to eliminate,” said the spokesperson for Equality of the socialist parliamentary group, Andrea Fernández.
The socialist proposal, which already obtained the support of the PP in the previous legislature, is justified because “pimping, in all its forms, still does not have sufficient criminal reproach in our legal system, unlike what happens in other countries of our environment, which have already proceeded to regulate their persecution. Article 187 of the Penal Code, in its current wording, does not punish any form of obtaining profit from the prostitution of others, but requires that this obtaining of profit has been carried out through the ‘exploitation’ of the prostituted person. This definition has led to a total non-application of this precept and, in practice, to total impunity for pimping,” the text states.
According to it, by requiring that the promotion of prostitution be carried out for profit, “behaviors of mere receipt of money from the prostituted person (for example, family members) and other conduct that may be considered neutral or “harmless.”
In addition, those who, for profit and on a regular basis, use a property, premises or establishment, whether or not open to the public, or any other space, to promote, favor or facilitate the prostitution of another person, even with their consent, will be punished with a prison sentence of two to four years and a fine of eighteen to twenty-four months.
As for clients, agreeing to perform acts of a sexual nature in exchange for money or another type of economic benefit will be punished with a fine of twelve to twenty-four months. If “the person who performs the act of a sexual nature is a minor or a person in a vulnerable situation”, a prison sentence of 1 to 3 years and a fine of twenty-four to forty-eight months will be imposed.
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, was in charge of announcing last week that the PSOE was going to recover this proposal to eliminate prostitution. Redondo has clearly declared himself an abolitionist on repeated occasions.
What will Sumar do? Sumar’s spokesman in the Congress of Deputies, Íñigo Errejón, postponed until the moment of knowing the text of the new abolitionist law of the PSOE the decision on the position of his group, but he did advance “a clear ground”: not to support ” “no measure that could worsen, make precarious or violate the conditions of women.” At the time of these statements, he had not read the bill.
In a press conference after the Meeting of Spokespersons of Congress, Errejón confirmed that the total abolition of prostitution, forced or voluntary, that the PSOE intends was not included in the government agreement, and said that when Sumar learns about the initiative, he will evaluate it. , but he announced that “in no case” will he support “any setback.”