The law of only yes is yes is going to leave a graphic image in Congress on Thursday of the tear that it has caused within the coalition government: the PP is going to support the reform proposal presented by the PSOE to stop the reductions in sentences to violators that the norm has allowed, while, except for a last-minute surprise, Vox will join the vote against United We Can.
This decision by Santiago Abascal's party - which abstained from taking into account the parliamentary initiative - has caused a certain sensation of relief in Ferraz. According to sources from the national leadership, the minority partner with the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, at the head, will no longer be able to use the argument against them that they have aligned themselves "with the right" because of the opposition group to this The measure led by the purple party is now also part of "the extreme right".
In the PSOE they continue trying to teach about the need to modify the law, insisting on the "basic principle" that "if something is wrong, it must be fixed." In addition, they defend that the investiture block that allowed Pedro Sánchez to remain in charge of La Moncloa "is not monolithic" and recall that "the labor reform was approved by Ciudadanos", although strictly speaking the one who ultimately allowed it to go ahead was the deputy popularAlberto Casero when he voted wrong.
The Socialists take for "fully amortized" the ballast that the almost thousand reductions in sentences that the application of the yes is yes has allowed could suppose in their electoral results. In this sense, they point out that their "determination" to put an end to these revisions was already seen when in February they unilaterally registered their bill to return to the old Penal Code after months of conversations with United We Can that did not materialize in any agreement.
Even so, the majority government party has considered it appropriate to convey an explicit public apology for the first time and, although there was an internal debate about whether the spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, should personify it, due to the fact that she is a woman, it was finally decided that was the president to amplify the message. "I apologize to the victims and we are going to put a solution to these undesired effects," said Sánchez in an interview published on Sunday by the newspapers of the Vocento group.
PSOE, PP, Cs and PNV voted this Monday in favor of the reform paper while Unidas Podemos, ERC, Bildu and Vox did so against it, a position that they are expected to maintain in the final vote on Thursday. In Ferraz they defend that, "when a reasonable proposal is put forward, it usually always obtains majority support and from different political actors."
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