Paradoxes of politics. The same feminist agenda that has put the Government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos in its greatest troubles - given the scandal of the hundreds of sentence reductions for those convicted of sexual crimes, after the entry into force of the law of 'only yes is yes' – gave the coalition a truce yesterday, thanks to the final approval, after returning from the Senate, of the other two main regulations promoted in this area by this legislature: the trans law and the abortion law. And this despite the disputes already known by the first of these regulations between the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and the most traditional sector of feminism in the socialist ranks, in which figures such as former vice president Carmen Calvo stand out, who yesterday He again abstained in the vote, a deviation from the discipline of his group that has cost him the corresponding sanction of 600 euros weeks ago. But, apart from that well-known fissure and Calvo's particular gesture, which last week was replicated by a socialist senator, the PSOE has ended up giving in to the minority partner of the Executive. Quite the opposite of the disagreement to reform the criminal aspects of 'only yes is yes', given that the initiative presented alone by the PSOE will be taken into consideration next Tuesday, March 7, the eve of 8-M, international day of Woman, since Podemos has prevented her from reaching Congress earlier by opposing, in alliance with her favorite partners, ERC and EH Bildu, her urgent procedure. There the PSOE does not give in or does not for the moment. In this context, Minister Montero suffered in the rostrum for a final argument in which she did not hesitate to label the 'trans law' as "one of the most important in the legislature", while greeting the trans and LGTBI activists who populated the guest rostrum, to whom he nevertheless told that "there is still work to be done." Mainly, specifically, with regard to immigrant transsexuals, “trans children” and non-binary people. Montero, in turn, emphasized that the law "depathologizes" these people. “Trans people are not sick, they are people. Point. It is who it is. Point. His trans women. Point. And the State recognizes you today", he concluded emphatically, receiving applause from both the United We Can bench and the Socialist Group. Related News Standard trans law No The 'trans law', keys and changes: from gender self-determination to the prohibition of conversion therapies Elena Calvo Self-determination of sex without medical advice or its reversibility are some of the changes introduced by the standard. We will tell you what it consists of and what the keys are. Added to this climate of parliamentary peace is the attitude of the Socialists, who are trying to remove the debate on the 'only yes is yes' from the public spotlight. Aware that the constant exchange of statements is to undermine the coalition, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, said: “There is nothing new on this issue. When there is any news, we will report it." He was requested on several occasions for this matter and the answer was the same: "What we have to do with this debate is simply inform when we have news." Sánchez urges But, finally, and as the day wore on, it became impossible to hide the tension. Along the same lines as what the PSOE had been stating in private in recent days, yesterday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during an informal conversation with the prisoner who accompanies him on his tour of Austria, Croatia and Slovenia, expressed challenger: “At the moment the PSOE proposal is the only one on the table. If they want, they can show it theirs”. The Minister of Finance and number two of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, confirmed that "it is not true" that the PSOE does not want to negotiate with Equality, as different directors of Podemos have repeated in recent days, but that what they want is to be in the solutions “and not in the fight for the story”. Already assumed the high wear and tear caused by this issue, the PSOE has prioritized the message that the only firm proposal for a solution is its own. The priority is that ultimately there can be some agreement with the parties of the investiture majority. Including We can. But always from the peace of mind that the PP is willing to support the PSOE's bill with the changes in the penalties for sexual crimes. A card up his sleeve that can be key in the negotiation for the parliamentary plenary session on March 7. In fact, the parliamentary spokesperson and number two of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, was blunt in the government control session on Wednesday, when she offered Sánchez to introduce in the plenary session of Congress next week – for which the popular have the so-called parliamentary quota that allows a certain group to introduce initiatives – the reform registered by the Socialist Group. Something that would cause the initiative to be taken into consideration next Thursday, twelve days ahead of schedule. Although the latter, of course, would go through the changes in the 'only yes is yes' with the support of the center-right, an anathema for Podemos. Irene Montero herself was clear about it, answering Sánchez in public: “The proposal that I want to make public is the proposed agreement. The proposed agreement of the Government and the proposed agreement of the feminist majority of the Congress of Deputies”. Translated: yes to reform the 'only yes is yes', but no, never, to do it with the PP. Warnings from Podemos The warnings of the head of Equality in this regard are clear and do not differ much from those that in his day, beyond the start of the legislature, in the months of 2020 even prior to the pandemic, were made precisely on the 'only yes is yes', when this rule began its journey at the table of the Council of Ministers. If the then second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, branded Juan Carlos Campo, at the time Minister of Justice, a "frustrated macho" due to the legal technical objections that they made to the Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, now Montero and the successor of Iglesias at the head of Podemos, Ione Belarra, assure that the PSOE proposal, defended by the head of Justice, Pilar Llop, would mean a return to the "Criminal Code of the herd". Llop will already observe for days that the Government "makes stories and not laws", in a clear dart to the head of Equality.
