The general secretary of the purples blames the socialists for breaking the talks “unilaterally”
The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has asked the PSOE this Friday to return to “sit at the table” to negotiate for the reform of the ‘only yes is yes’ law. One day after both parties declared the talks broken, due to the evident lack of agreement, the also general secretary of Podemos blames the socialists for having broken the bridges.
“It has become perfectly clear that it has been the Socialist Party that has risen from the negotiating table” to reform the “only yes is yes” law, presenting this bill “unilaterally”, he stated this Friday, before his speech to open the ‘Barnahus in Spain’ conference.
Regarding whether they have formally requested that meeting, Minister Belarra has responded: «I think they know us well and know that our hand is outstretched. Here I publicly give it to you too. They know that we have never left the negotiating table. The one who has to return to the table is the Socialist Party », she has insisted.
In this way, the head of the Social Rights portfolio has commented that “taking into account that this proposed Law, the Popular Party itself recognizes that it is practically identical to its own”, the Socialists understand that it is necessary to “reconstruct that feminist majority in Congress” and return to the negotiating table.
However, both formations keep their positions apart on the issue of consent in Ferraz’s reform proposal. The Socialists acknowledge that, in this climate, they prefer to keep the negotiations with Podemos on the reform of the star standard of the Ministry of Equality “frozen”, which has entered a deadlock. The tone they maintain will remain the same. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, acknowledged this Thursday that the rule is “imperfect”, while the head of Equality, Irene Montero, continues to defend her star law and maintains the focus on “a minority of judges who misapply it”. .
Now PSOE and Podemos are focusing on investiture partners to try to gather support. While in Ferraz the votes of the PNV were signed up this Thursday and they no longer categorically reject the votes of the PP, the purples hope to attract Esquerra and EH Bildu.
reform proposal
The PSOE registered a petition this Friday so that its proposal to reform the law of ‘only yes is yes’ be processed urgently. This formula allows the usual processing of the norm to be shortened by half once the debate to take it into consideration has passed and the fact that the Socialists request it speaks clearly of their intention to approve the initiative in the shortest possible time to close both the crisis caused by the hundreds of conviction reviews for sexual assault as the confrontation between the partners of the coalition. But even so, in the parliamentary group they insist that it is difficult to talk about specific deadlines. Fundamentally, because they want to try to accumulate as much support as possible.
The PSOE negotiators see it as very difficult for Podemos to turn in its opposition to the text prepared by the Ministry of Justice, which had been negotiating an agreement privately with the Equality Ministry since the beginning of last December without success. And, although they are willing to carry out the norm with the PP if necessary, they would also like to attract the investiture bloc groups. At the moment, the only one that has guaranteed its support for the aforementioned debate on taking it into consideration, the first of the filters that the law must pass, is the PNV.
If the text were taken to the first possible plenary session, that filter would be placed in the week of March 7, the eve of Women’s Day. Before, on Tuesday the 14th, the Board must qualify it. Exceptionally, it could be included in the agenda of the Board of Spokespersons that will order the next plenary session that same day, but to do so requires unanimity of the governing body of Congress, something highly improbable. It will be, then, the Board of the 21st that can already include it in the following plenary session, which will be already in the first week of next month, since the last week of February has no activity. However, socialist sources refuse to advance dates and do not rule out going even to the second week of March.
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