Pilar Alegría on the reform of the only yes is yes: "You cannot confuse feminism with closure"

MADRID, 20 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Education and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, has defended the reform of the law of the only yes is yes that will be approved this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies and has reproached United We may have used the rule to open a debate on feminism.

"Feminism cannot be confused with closure," Alegría explained in an interview on RNE collected by Europa Press in which she assured that "when a law is put into effect and causes undesired effects, the truly responsible thing is to recognize the errors and, what is more important, propose alternatives that solve them".

"There are those who have wanted to open a debate here about more feminism or less feminism and I, of course, am not in favor of distributing feminism cards because my party has a long historical trajectory where it has clearly demonstrated that it is a feminist party", has assured Alegría, who has evaded responding to whether it would have been easier to negotiate the approval of the reform with Yolanda Díaz than with the Minister of Equality Irene Montero.

"There has been talk with the whole world, an attempt has been made to reach an agreement with United We Can in this case and this government has reached agreements on more than 200 laws and one has not," replied the socialist leader, for whom the approval of the reform in Congress will be "a positive step to improve a law and make it impossible for there to be future reductions in sentences."

Regarding the criticism for approving the reform with the support of the PP, Alegría recalled that the PSOE bill will go ahead with the support of other parties such as the PNV. "I think this law had to be reformed and, above all, avoid those undesired effects, they have spoken with all the political forces, in Congress there are many political forces and they are not monolithic blocs, and there is going to be very important support within the Chamber ".

He also recalled that the PP amendments that have been introduced in the reform are "very technical amendments, which do not affect the proposal that the PSOE put forward to solve those unwanted effects of the law."

Likewise, he has assured that he does not share the tone of the criticisms of Minister Irene Montero, who accused the PP of having humiliated the PSOE with its amendments to the reform of the law. "I certainly do not share that type of words or that type of language, I do not feel comfortable in those records and we are in politics to be useful to the citizens," explained the socialist spokesperson.