The spokesperson for Forward Andalusia, Teresa Rodriguezhas defended this Sunday the “keys” of the law of ‘only yes is yes’ driven by the Ministry of Equality of Irene Monteroalthough it would not hurt that “the legal adjustments what needs to be done to make it work.” The Sánchez government has finally opened up to reforming it after it has already benefited 277 sex offenders with reduced codenames and releases.
The former Andalusian parliamentarian, once the leader of Podemos in the community, has stressed the changes that the law has brought about: eliminating the distinction between abuse and assaultsomething “fundamental” to “put the consent at the center” and not the resistance of the victim, as well as the previous steps so that these cases do not occur.
For Teresa Rodríguez “little is being said about it”, which is “the key fundamental» of the law, although he is not opposed to making «the legal adjustments that must be made to make it work well».
The spokesperson for Forward Andalusia wanted to remember the old Code Penal, which considers that “it is not ideal” and “where the victim who suffered an assault had to resist for it to be considered rape, but it was only abuse”, to assess that “putting consent at the center as a formula to determine a crime It seems to us that it is key”, and this law includes it. “In general, we have supported from the beginning the strategy of the Ministry of Equality” in relation to this law, he has maintained.
“That said, the legal adjustments that have to be made for this to work well,” will seem “good,” stressed the spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía. “We do not get into legal issues,” said Rodríguez, who regretted that “this is used to distort the fundamental key of the law, which is that there does not have to be resistance on the part of the victim for it to be considered violation».
With this, he wanted to influence two aspects: «That only criminal matters are not important, that surely the most important thing is what must be done before so that there are no violations and abuses, and that it is essential that a law includes that there is or no resistance on the part of the victim, there is aggression, ”he has settled.
In addition, he has alluded to the fact that “there are issues that are not related to criminal law and that must be implemented to prevent aggression and abuse from occurring, measures so that from a very young age everyone understands that consent must be in the relationship center. “There is also little talk about that,” she added.
Teresa Rodríguez has spoken in this way to questions from journalists this Sunday at the presentation ceremony of the Adelante Andalucía candidate for Mayor of Seville, Sandra Heredia, the formation’s spokesperson.
The Board believes that the change comes “late”
For his part, the Andalusian Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanzstated this Sunday that a possible remodeling of the law of ‘only yes is yes’ would arrive «late and bad» and has considered that in the Government of Sánchez they have to «purify political responsibilities» for the «monumental blunder» that this legislative text has entailed.
In statements to journalists, Sanz has denounced that the “insensitivity” of the central government to what this law is assuming for victims of sexual violence is also unfortunate, since sentences are being reduced for “rapists” and some have even already left on the street.
«If they consider rectifying, they arrive late and badly, because there are already 277 convicts who have seen their sentences reduced in Spain and 32 rapists what have been released as a consequence of the disaster of this law”, has indicated the Andalusian counselor.
In his opinion, it would no longer be enough to reform the law, but to purify “political responsibilities for the serious damage to the victims that this blunder has caused.” “This disaster cannot be left without clearing up political responsibilities,” Antonio Sanz has settled.
