The former Minister of Equality Irene Montero affirms that the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, demanded her resignation in the midst of the crisis due to the law ‘only yes means yes’ and he even emphasizes that he even asked “yelling” when his resignation was going to take place. He also assumes that the decision to propose Díaz as a future electoral candidate after the departure of former Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias from the Government was the «biggest political mistake» committed by his training in these years.
This is what the current Podemos MEP explains in her book ‘Something we will have done’, published by the publishing house ‘Navona’, in which she reviews the main moments of her political career up to the present. For example, Montero reproaches that Moncloa, before the lack of agreement with Podemos at the beginning of last year for the reform of the criminal framework of the Law ‘only yes is yes’ due to the judicial resolutions that reduced sentences for sexual offenders, whose calculation was «drop it» instead of having a coordinated response to the «judicial offensive» and agreeing on an article that, according to what he claims, would leave consent at the center.
However, and according to his version, the way in which several of those who were his friends acted then was “very distressing and despicable.” colleagues then in Unidas Podemosasserting that Díaz requested his resignation in several meetings that he called “specifically for this.”
«Isa Serra (current MEP of Podemos), in one of those meetings, was asked shouting on several occasions that When was Irene Montero going to resign?», asserts the former minister, adding that, a few days later, she was told that the vice president «could see it well» that she would dismiss the former Secretary of State for Equality Ángela Rodríguez ‘Pam’ and the former Government delegate against gender violence, Vicky Rosell. «Both (‘Pam’ and Rosell) came to my office to make their responsibilities available. I still cry with rage when I remember it. “Yolanda was acting to force my resignation or that of a relevant person on my team,” Montero criticizes.
«Yolanda decided that she had to side with the PSOE and take the opportunity to try to mortally wound Podemos»
«Drop Equality»
Then, he maintains that the decision to promote the reform proposed by the Ministry of Justice and “let Equality fall” was made by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, but who “multiplied the aggressiveness of the blows» was «Yolanda and who together with her decided that they had to side with the PSOE and take advantage to try mortally wound Podemos».
She also assures that the “undoubtedly most painful moment” for her during those days with her former colleagues was experienced with the current deputy of Sumar and leader of IU, Enrique Santiagoto whom he attributes that he “saw well” the PSOE’s proposal to return to the penal scheme prior to the Law ‘only yes means yes’.
On February 1, 2023, the former minister recalls, she had a tense conversation with Santiago, whom she suspects is negotiating “on her own behalf or in that of Díaz with the PSOE, outside of Equality” and that when she raised her suspicions, he She replied that she was “castillated.” However, he says that he received a series of WhatsApp messages from Santiago himself that he had sent “by mistake to the wrong Montero» (the Minister of Finance María Jesús Montero), giving her an account of the conversation with her. “It’s the last time I spoke with Enrique,” he emphasizes.
Montero emphasizes that the entire PSOE endorsed the ‘counter-reform’ of returning to the criminal framework prior to the Law ‘only yes is yes’ and that this is how they derived “all the pressure” to try to “break it” and make it come out “the hardest hit.” possible”. And he alleges that Díaz and others understood that “the reactionary judicial offensive was a golden opportunity for them.”
Clash with the PSOE
On the other hand, he alleges that the night before the PSOE presented the reform of the law agreed with the PP in Congress, he received a call from the now first vice president. Maria Jesus Montero to explain to him that there was no more time to negotiate and that he sign with them the initiative to return to the previous Penal Code, something that in his opinion was “surrender to the sexist judicial offensive” and “wash his face” from his agreement with the ‘ popular’.
«Sign the reform, minister. Your political career doesn’t have to end here,” said María Jesús Montero about the ‘counter-reform’.
Specifically, she explains that she told her the following: “sign the reform, minister. Your political career doesn’t have to end here». To which she responded no because she was convinced that it was a setback for feminist rights. “The most serious thing is that I don’t think it was a threat, even though it seems like one (…) I was summarizing with great sincerity how the PSOE works,” he says.
This attitude also evoked Díaz when he stated that he called the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, to ask her if Montero wanted “perhaps an embassy, for example in Chile” because it was a good political solution. “They were (…) reproducing certain rules of power that surely have also been used against them and that they have accepted,” he reproaches.
Irene Montero’s conclusion after the controversy over the ‘only yes is yes’ Law and the clash with the PSOE over the reform of the law is that Sánchez decided «silence feminism» and «punished» the «institutional feminism» that they had deployed from Equality.
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