The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, continues to maintain that the downward revisions of sentences in application of the law of the only yes is yes are "a minority" after the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has published its first official balance in this regard, which indicates that 646 sexual offenders have benefited from the entry into force of the norm and 65 have been released. She supports her statement that, "unfortunately", the data provided by the governing body of judges "is not complete".
"In any case, a single case would be enough for us to insist that a response to the victims and to society as a whole is necessary and that, in my opinion, this response must be united," the representative of Unidas Podemos admitted in the coalition government. In this sense, she has assured that her intention is to reach an agreement on the reform with the PSOE and that she will work "until the last second" to try to achieve it.
Montero argues that the balance provided by the CGPJ does not reveal "the total number of sentences that have been reviewed but where the sentences have not been lowered" nor "how many of these reductions are final." To which he has added: "Today we learned of a case in which the Superior Court of Castilla y León has annulled a reduction that a provincial court had imposed."
"Therefore we are going to wait to have all the official data, which is what can give us a complete picture of those decisions to reduce sentences that we continue to maintain that they are a minority. Most of the revisions are taking place while maintaining the sentences because they fit in the fork and the transitory law is being properly applied," insisted the head of Equality.
Faced with the "dead end" in which the talks with its partner had entered, the PSOE decided to unilaterally register in Congress its proposal to reform the law of only yes is yes precisely to stop the bleeding of revisions and which is based on the recovery of the penalties of the previous Penal Code. Unidas Podemos opposes it because it argues that it would mean that the victims would have to return to "evident hell" to prove before a judge that they "tried to close their legs" in the face of a sexual assault.
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