"Keep working", "what is at risk is not the coalition government", "Government for a while", "I would ask everyone to be responsible"... These are some of the expressions that have been heard this Wednesday in the corridors of Congress by members of the coalition Executive, both from the PSOE and from Unidas Podemos, who wanted to make it clear that there will be no rupture after Congress took into consideration yesterday the proposal for a socialist law to reform the law of only yes is yes with the popular votes and against the purple partners.
However, while the socialist wing made an effort to lower its tone after the thick words that were yesterday in plenary session in which for the first time the Executive voted in the opposite way in a debate of strong political significance, the purple party, singularly Podemos, maintained the accusations to his senior partners and vindicated the original law. At a midpoint was the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, less belligerent than her UP colleagues Irene Montero and Ione Belarra. The head of Labor called for responsibility "to everyone".
Thus, the Minister of Equality has accused the PSOE of allying with the PP to return to the Penal Code of the herd, although she has recognized that "what is at risk is not the coalition government but the rights of women".
"What is bad news for this country is that the PSOE has joined hands with the PP to start the path that can lead us to return to the Penal Code of violence or intimidation, the Penal Code of the Pack", the minister blurted out after the control session. "They have possibilities of agreement", has alerted the head of Equality in reference to the parliamentary processing of the reform, and has accused the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, of rejecting the Equality proposals publicly.
"What is relevant is that the PSOE has not wanted to seek an agreement either with its government partner or with the feminist majority in Congress," lamented Montero, who from the Ministry of Equality promoted the rule that has caused a long list of unwanted effects. of reductions in sentences and releases of sexual offenders, reason for the reform.
"That is missing the conquest that women have made in the streets so that consent is at the center of the Penal Code," insisted Montero, who has promised to work to keep consent at the center of the Penal Code.
For her part, the Minister for Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has admitted that the coalition partners exchanged "big words" yesterday, although she has agreed with her party colleague that "the serious thing" is the "facts and the alliance of the PSOE with the PP to, for the first time, apply a "involution of women's rights" in this legislature.
For this reason, the also leader of Podemos has sued the socialist wing to "rectify" and explain why yesterday she decided to "break" the "feminist" majority in the chamber that promotes the progress of this legislature.
In addition, she has defended that what happened reinforces the need for her presence in the Government, since no one defends feminist rights more than Irene Montero, and this objective is what they work "humbly" for in the Council of Ministers.
The Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has asked "everyone to be responsible" and has reiterated that "we should never have gotten here". “I would ask everyone to be responsible. We must all be responsible, more than ever because people are having a very bad time, and today the protagonists are the women of our country”, Díaz insisted.
For its part, the socialist wing of the government advocates lowering the tone. The Minister of Finance and Public Function and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has assured that she will contribute to lowering the tone among the coalition partners with her statements and has been convinced that the Executive will exhaust the legislature and not will cause a rupture. Thus, she has admitted, in the halls of Congress, that yesterday there were expressions "out of tune" and that they do not correspond to reality by United We Can.
In addition, Montero pointed out that the coalition government still has a "way to go" and has stressed that the partners have to focus on matters that concern citizens such as the Housing Law - "hopefully see the light soon", as he has expressed - and other measures to improve the lives of women, young people and pensioners, especially.
Along the same lines, the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, acknowledged that the debate held yesterday "was not the best in the history of these Parliaments" although he was convinced that the climate between PSOE and United We Can improve and that "there is a Government for a while", as indicated at the exit of the control session to the Executive in the Lower House.
