Moncloa refuses to expedite the debate in Congress on the reform of the 'Only Yes is Yes' law proposed by the PP

MADRID, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has declined to advance its agreement to the debate in Congress on the bill proposed by the PP to correct the Law on Sexual Freedom, known as the 'Only Yes is Yes' law, with which the PP will not be able to defend it next week in plenary.

The bill was presented last December and was only waiting for the Government to give its agreement, given that the Executive has the power to veto those legislative initiatives that it considers to alter its budgetary policy, either due to excess spending or due to loss of income.

The Government has 30 days to give its approval, but may not exhaust it. In fact, in the case of the penal reform of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos to eliminate the crime of sedition and other changes, that government approval arrived the day after the Congress table sent the text.

In the Board of Spokespersons this Tuesday, the PP asked the Government to advance the agreement to its initiative to be able to include it in the Plenary session next week, the first of the new regular session. But as revealed later by the spokesperson for the Popular Group, Cuca Gamarra, the Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts, Rafael Simancas, already announced that Moncloa was going to run out of time, which ends in March.

Parliamentary sources assure Europa Press that Gamarra later sent a letter to the minister of the presidency, Félix Bolaños, asking him again to advance his agreement, but that letter has not arrived and the PP had already communicated to the Table what initiative they will defend on Tuesday and He had to choose another.

From the PP they calculated that, if their reform started next Tuesday, "in less than a month it could be in the BOE", even if the PSOE introduced the changes it considered appropriate. By not giving his consent, his first debate is no longer expected until March.

The PSOE's bet continues to be to register its own reform, if possible agreed with Unidas Podemos, and then process it through the urgent procedure in the Cortes. For now, the first debate will have to wait because the Socialists, unlike the PP, do not have a quota to defend initiatives until at least February 14.