The Government tries to block the leaking waterway opened by the application of the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom law with an agreement, but the pact is not an essential condition. Because we are entering a marathon election year and both parties will force the identity of their political offers. We are entering the last stretch of the legislature and the partners need distance and their own message. The reform of the so-called law of only yes is yes obeys to the concern of the president, Pedro Sánchez, given the possibility that the intense legislative agenda of Equality and the feminist heritage of the legislature is clouded by a controversy that has been raging for two years. months and that does not stop, with the entrenched ministry and an incessant trickle of sentence adjustments. But also to the imminence of the electoral calendar.
The negotiation is being tough. Equality regrets the inflexibility of the Socialists, who have already rejected five different reform proposals. Although other ministers participate, such as Vice President Yolanda Díaz, pivot of the coalition, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, due to her legal profile, and María Jesús Montero, as a socialist political link, the main weight on the socialist side is carried by the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, who is showing the proverbial rocky condition of judges involved in politics.
However the reform ends, with or without an agreement, with or without aggravating factors of violence, the Government will not be broken. The Minister of Equality herself, devoted all week body and soul to the negotiation of the reform, underlined this yesterday. Although all parties need the ministerial pulpit for their electoral projection, the urgency with which Sánchez has demanded the reform has hindered the timid approaches between Podemos and Sumar launched in recent weeks. The incipient détente between the ministers of Podemos, Irene Montero and Ione Belarra, and the vice president Yolanda Díaz facing a common front in December has been clouded by the downpour that the PSOE has unleashed on the Ministry of Equality. Although they will need their partner to repeat at least the 2019 result, in terms of electoral calculus, the erosion of Irene Montero, Podemos' main electoral battering ram, does not hurt either. And that has been noticeable throughout this week. Hence, also, the closing ranks of the purple around the minister and the communicative hyperactivity of Equality these days.
This scenario between the partners, in which electoral interests will complicate the agreements, concerns the last two major agreements to which they aspire in this legislature: the reform of the gag law and the new Housing law. The discussion around the reform of the Citizen Security law has concluded, and now the tension is fixed on whether the agreements reached are relevant enough for the allies to support the reform, or if the issues outweigh what the agreement has not been possible, specifically related to the arbitrary power that the 2015 law gave to the agents -and therefore, with the possibility of confronting the police unions, today mostly leaning to the right-, and the harmful means used by the police. riot police.
Regarding the Housing Law, both partners are very aware of the relevance of reaching the campaign without the current regulation, and discreetly and eagerly they have been advancing towards an agreement, which may be imminent. Regarding the animal protection law, United We Can have not been fussy to make the PSOE ugly in its pact with the right and the ultra-right regarding hunting dogs, a framework in which the purple ones have everything to win against the progressive electorate, mostly urban. The Socialists understand that it is a lesser evil, considering that they are trying to revalidate the presidencies of Extremadura (Guillermo Fernández Vara), Aragón (Javier Lambán) and Castilla-La Mancha (Emiliano García Page), communities with great hunting activity.
