The authorities’s socialist wing considers that the issue with the “solely sure is sure” legislation is being blurred and {that a} complicated message is being despatched, in reference to the coalition associate, United We Can, in response to authorities sources. They additionally point out that they despatched their companions the newest proposal to reform this legislation this Friday at midday.
Thus, they level out that the controversy between the 2 formations doesn’t undergo modifying the a part of the legislation associated to consent they usually emphasize that the articles associated to it won’t be touched. On the opposite, they preserve that the issue is the decreasing of penalties that they qualify as “very severe”.
Every week in the past the socialist a part of the Government introduced that it will perform a reform of the ‘solely sure is sure’ legislation because of the “negative effects” that this rule was producing and the social alarm that had occurred. Thus, they indicated that they have been negotiating with United We Can this reform, by a invoice, though they’d current it to Congress in any case, additionally if they didn’t attain an settlement with the purple ones.
In reality, they gave themselves the deadline to current the legislative initiative till this Friday, though they lastly determined to present themselves just a few extra days to hurry up the negotiation with the coalition associate, which for the second rejects the choices supplied by the PSOE.
The authorities sources consulted affirmed that they despatched their final proposal this Friday at midday, so it’s foreseeable that they’ll proceed negotiating all through all the weekend. However, they refuse to speak about deadlines and the way lengthy they will await Podemos, earlier than taking the plunge and presenting their initiative alone.
Do not create false expectations
They additionally warn that false expectations can’t be generated with this reform of the ‘solely sure is sure’ legislation, which since its entry into pressure in October has led to decrease sentences for greater than 400 convicted of sexual offenses and dozens of releases. They make it clear that this downside will proceed regardless of the reform, which is able to solely have an effect on circumstances which will happen sooner or later, as soon as the brand new rules come into pressure.
This Friday the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, spoke about it by stating that the need of Unidas Podemos on this negotiation with the PSOE is to not resign placing consent on the heart of the legislation. “I wish to protect the federal government’s unitary response, however in fact consent can’t be touched,” she mentioned.
Likewise, he admitted the existence of variations with the Socialists on “the way to reform the legislation and if consent might be maintained because the axis of the Penal Code”, in response to what he indicated.
On the opposite, from the PSOE they contemplate that it’s a complicated message that blurs the issue, which for them is discovered within the discount of sentences and the intense penalties that it has had in latest months.