The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has affirmed that she will protect "the heart" of the only yes is yes law in the face of the "indecent" offensive of the PP and the political, judicial and media right, which seeks to "go back" and that the Consent is no longer at the center of the Penal Code in cases of rape.
This was revealed this Sunday on the island of Lanzarote during his speech at an act of the route La fuerza que transforma organized by Podemos.
"The PP has offered its votes to return to the previous model, to the distinction between aggression and abuse. We are going to protect the heart of the law, we are going to do it together and we will do whatever is necessary to protect women and feminist advances against those who want to take advantage of this situation to make us go back after the greatest progress in the fight against sexist violence in the last 20 years," he said.
For Montero, this right-wing offensive is not only against the law, but also against the coalition government, emphasizing that there are "many" pressures from "reactionary sectors" for this situation to settle with ending consent as the center of the Penal Code.
"They want -he added- that the result of this alarm generated as a result of the judicial decisions that are lowering the sentences ends in a return to the previous model and that women have to demonstrate again that we have resisted."
Montero recalled that this law arises because thousands of women in Spain rebelled against "unfair" judicial sentences such as that of the herd. "The result -he continued- of a mobilization of thousands of women explaining that if we do not consent to a sexual relationship there is an aggression, that our sexual freedom is being violated."
Here, the minister made special emphasis that the question to the alleged victims should not be if they "resisted", but if they "consented". "And if you did not consent, it is aggression," she clarified.
In the same way, he observed that sexual violence is still a "very invisible" reality, since, he pointed out, one in two women has suffered sexist violence at some point in their lives and they have "normalized" to such an extent that only the 8% of women denounce the sexual violence they suffer in their daily lives.
For this reason, Montero has insisted that the law of only yes is yes puts consent at the center and allows the State to protect women for the first time.
He also commented that the majority of judges have applied the law "correctly", but that a minority "has decided to lower penalties and not correctly apply the law and the transitory law that is in full force", recalling that a A similar situation occurred in 2004 when the law against gender violence was approved because in its first years there were almost 200 issues of unconstitutionality raised by the courts and dismissals increased by 158%.
"It already happened in 2004 and it is happening again," she assured. Feminist advances need a lot of pedagogy and that everyone accepts that Spain is above their interests, their opinions or their will when it comes to applying the law.
Likewise, he has placed special emphasis on the fact that the Government has done "everything necessary" for a correct application of the law and that "all" international organizations are congratulating Spain on the rule while the PP "has offered its votes to return to previous model".
