The reduction of sentences for sexual offenders of minors by the Law of Guarantee of Sexual Freedom or law of only yes is yes The fault between Yolanda Díaz and Podemos is growing, without noise but with a seriousness that worries La Moncloa. The Minister for Equality and Secretary for Government Action of Podemos, Irene Montero, has received the overwhelming support of the leadership of the main party in the political universe of United Podemos while the second vice president remains silent in public for the third consecutive day since the outbreak of the crisis. “I am not going to comment,” Montero limited himself to saying on Wednesday night on Cadena SER due to the lack of explicit support from the Minister of Labor.
The pressure from the judiciary and the opposition demanding the resignation or dismissal of Montero after accusing judges and prosecutors of being “sexist” and without the necessary training to apply the new law coincide with the fight between Podemos and Díaz for future electoral lists. in the general elections at the end of 2023 under the threat of disassociating itself from Sumar, the transversal project and above the acronyms and parties with which the vice president aspires to unite the progressive electorate to the left of the PSOE in the next general elections. Díaz has privately conveyed that she “has to be prudent” and that the judicial course of the norm must be “analyzed” to draw the most appropriate conclusions to meet its objective: to guarantee the rights and freedoms of all women.
A very discreet and under-the-radar profile that contrasts with the intensity with which the leadership of Podemos has closed ranks with the head of one of its flagship ministries. “Not only are there sexist judges illegally lowering the sentences of rapists to mount —together with the reactionary media powers— a nauseating campaign against feminist advances. It’s that there are voices progressives following their game because it is also against Podemos”, stated the spokesman in Congress, Pablo Echenique. “There is no gap in the law of only yes is yes, only the same macho bias as always among some judges”, the general secretary of Podemos and minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, pronounced. Some terms that the second vice president has avoided and that those around her do not consider suitable, as is also the case in the PSOE, where the forcefulness with which the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has condemned the generalized accusation as macho of all the judiciary carried out from Podemos.
In Podemos they highlight how, unlike Díaz, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has come out in public in defense of what he considers “a vanguard law”, as he stated at the end of the G-20 summit in Bali (Indonesia ) while avoiding the slightest criticism of the coalition partners and asking to wait for the courts to set criteria on the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders of minors.
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On the other hand, Díaz has not appeared in this time despite the fact that he has held several events. On Tuesday afternoon he went to the performance of the show Living Diary at the Teatro Figaro in Madrid. That day, the Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, opened the door to review the Law of Guarantee of Sexual Freedom for the reduction of sentences in cases already sentenced. On Wednesday she met with the Minister of Justice and Migration Policies of the Government of Navarra, Eduardo Santos Itoiz, and took part in the presentation of the book Class struggle, Francoism and democracy, by the former leader of En Comú Podem Xavier Domènech. This Wednesday he received the former president of Colombia, Ernesto Samper, at the ministry, and then went to the Argentine embassy in Madrid to meet the president of the Latin American country, Alberto Fernández.
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The crisis over one of the flagship laws of Podemos has also made it possible to verify how Unidas Podemos is made up of different sensibilities and not all of them think the same. In a position similar to that of Díaz is the mayoress of Barcelona and leader of the commons, Ada Colau, who this Thursday urged to avoid “contributing to the noise” and called for “prudence” until the Supreme Court rules on the legal application of the law of only yes is yes. On the other hand, Jaume Asens, originally from that space of the commons and president of the United We Can group in Congress, has closed ranks with Montero: “The problem is not in the law, it is in justice. Judges cannot supplant the legislator by interpreting what the law does not say. It is necessary to do pedagogy and reinforce training in sexist violence in justice”. “The judges have an ideology, it is inevitable, but understanding that the judges of various Provincial Courts who have decided that the sentences must be reviewed are fachas in a toga or sexist judges seems to me to simplify the debate, it does not conform to reality,” he disagreed. Juan Pedro Yllanes, vice president of the Balearic Islands and member of Podemos, who approved the oppositions to judge more than three decades ago.
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