The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who participated this Sunday in an event of Podemos in Lanzarote, has warned that the purple formation will protect that consent "remains in the heart of the Penal Code" and also the coalition government that has made the law of only yes is yes possible.
In her speech, Montero lamented that, faced with the congratulations that the Spanish Government has received from the EU and other international organizations for this organic law of integral guarantee of sexual freedom, known as the "only yes is yes" law, in this country its promoters suffer "an indecent offensive from the political, judicial and media right", which seeks the return to the previous model.
A model, she said, with which victims of "still invisible and normalized sexual violence were asked if they resisted, and not if they consented."
Irene Montero has stressed that what is happening with this law, "the main feminist conquest of the last twenty years", also happened in 2004 after the approval of the Law of Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence, against which "Spanish courts raised 200 questions of unconstitutionality", while the dismissals of these cases "increased by 158%".
The Minister of Equality has claimed that her party is "the force that is transforming" Spain, aware that "where there is a need there must be a right" and contrary to "deciding only a few powerful people".
Montero has stressed that for Podemos "doing politics is a titanic task", since it implies "making possible what everyone tells you is impossible", such as raising the minimum interprofessional wage and promoting the Minimum Vital Income, feminist laws, the gas cap or intervention in the housing market, initiatives "that are making thousands of families live better" and that were rejected by those "who wanted to sustain the privileges of a few at the expense of the rights of the social majority".
The minister has highlighted that in the Canary Islands her party has also favored the creation of a citizen's income and the improvement of the difficult situation through which issues related to dependency were going, which she has thanked the regional councilor for Social Rights, Noemí Santana.
Therefore, she estimated that progressive coalition governments, such as the national and the Canarian, which, she said, are the result of the mobilization of the popular sectors of this country and also of the commitment of Podemos, "who since 2016 said that they were possible and that the numbers did add up, are the best that Spain and this archipelago can have."
Faced with them, there are "many adversaries of the political, judicial and media right who want to overthrow the central Executive and prevent Podemos from governing", although the purple formation is clear that in this election year its objective is "to govern in more places and with more force where it already does", she asserted.
