Podemos brandishes the hatchet against the PSOE 24 hours after the first debate and vote on the reform of the only yes is yes law in Congress. The purple party has accused its partner of perpetrating "a betrayal of the feminist movement" and presents it on the eve of 8-M as a party that is part of a reactionary response to the norm and that is hostage to the "pressure" of the "right and the extreme right".
The leadership of Podemos has spoken out in very harsh terms against the PSOE and has warned it about the temptation to take the "photo of shame" in a vote in Congress in which it would achieve the admission of its bill thanks to to the votes of PP and Vox. For the purples it would mean aligning themselves "with openly anti-feminist parties."
Alejandra Jacinto, co-spokeswoman for Podemos, has made it clear that right now there is no type of formal negotiation between the Ministry of Equality of Irene Montero and the socialist leaders to seek a consensus solution to the crisis. However, she has taken the opportunity to apply pressure and make a "last call" to dialogue under the premise that the PSOE "reconsider."
Otherwise, Jacinto said, there will be a "shameful vote" in Congress in which the PSOE will be portrayed in an "unfortunate" way as a formation that has "given in" to "pressure from the right and the extreme right". to "return to the Penal Code of La Manada".
Podemos, which already announced on Friday that it will vote against the socialist initiative, warns that the PSOE is crossing a "red line" for them, which is to displace the consent of the "center" of the Penal Code in the prosecution of sexual assaults to recover violence and intimidation as axes to establish the threshold between higher and lower penalties.
At a press conference, Jacinto has criticized that tomorrow it can be seen "that the votes of the PSOE join the votes of Abascal and Ayuso, who have systematically opposed any progress" in feminist matters to "take steps back". The purple co-spokesperson has emphasized her disbelief at this and has said that we must "wait" to see with her "own eyes" that, indeed, it happens.
All this rhetoric against the PSOE's proposal to "correct" the law of only yes is yes, which is directed towards the 800 sexual offenders benefiting from sentence reductions, further heats up the feminist mobilizations that will take place on Wednesday, March 8 . That day Podemos wants the streets to cry out against the socialist approach.
Irene Montero already said it two weeks ago, who spurred feminists to come out in defense of the norm in the face of the "risk" of "steps backwards" in "conquered" rights. "When the laws reach the BOE, you have to continue defending those rights," she said at a feminist conclave organized by the Ministry of Equality.
More explicit in this regard was yesterday Pablo Iglesias, who in a statement halfway between the threat and the warning said the following: "Let's see what [the socialists] find in the 8-M demonstration."
PSOE and Unidas Podemos have been headed for a clash in Congress over the law of only yes is yes for a long time. Each party blames the other for not giving up on their positions. In fact, Jacinto has indicated today that the Socialists had transferred them "that they do not want to reach an agreement."
Despite the confrontation and the increase in internal tension over an issue that Podemos calls "very serious", the party headed by Ione Belarra rejects the idea of breaking the coalition and leaving the Executive. His argument is that "there is still an agenda of social transformations to undertake", such as housing or the gag law, and that this justifies "more than ever" that Podemos is in the Government.
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