Sánchez before the no of Podemos to the changes in the 'yes is yes': There is a majority feeling of the groups to consider it

MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended that there is a "majority feeling" among the parliamentary groups of the need to take into consideration the reform of the Penal Code to "technically correct" the law of 'only yes is yes', after that Podemos has anticipated that it will vote against if it returns to the previous code and there is no prior agreement with Equality.

From Helsinki, where he has met with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, Sánchez has stressed that it is a "taking into consideration" of a "technical modification of the Penal Code".

"There is a majority feeling among the parliamentary groups that we have to take into consideration the reform of the Penal Code, not to amend it politically but to technically correct a good law that unfortunately is having unwanted effects," he stressed.

That said, Sánchez has argued that the "feminist commitment" of both the Government as a whole as well as the PSOE and Podemos "is total and resounding" and "the service record in recent years thus certifies it", citing among others the law of voluntary interruption of pregnancy, the very law of 'yes is yes' or the new LGTBI law, as well as "all the measures that have redounded to the benefit of women".

All of this shows that "this is a feminist government that shares many more things than what separates us", he concluded, after the spokesman for Unidas Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, revealed that if there were no According to the PSOE, its formation will vote against any initiative that involves returning to the previous Penal Code, which generated the controversial initial sentence of 'La manada'.

This has been conveyed in statements to the media in the corridors of Congress, where he has made it clear that the PSOE bill, as it is originally proposed, means returning to the criminal framework prior to the law and that if the time comes to pronounce itself and there is no pact with Equality, Podemos will vote against.

"I hope that moment does not come and we are working so that this does not happen, but we are not going to vote with the PP to return to the Penal Code of 'La manada'. If that moment arrives, and we do not want it to arrive, we will vote against it", Echenique has emphasized.