Llop defends the pardons for the leaders of the ‘procés’ and maintains that “they have helped to improve coexistence”
MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Vox has accused Minister Pilar Llop on Tuesday of granting rapists “favourable treatment” and failing to protect women with the ‘law of only yes is yes’, while the head of Justice has recalled that “it is not It is the government that imprisons or releases”. “We are in a rule of law,” she assured.
Llop expressed himself in this way in response to a question from Vox senator Yolanda Merelo Palomares, who questioned whether the government “thinks of the Spanish when it releases separatists and rapists.” “It worries me that you ask that question. I understand that in that far-right mentality, of a power with three functions, you believe that the Government can imprison or release”, the minister has made him ugly.
In this sense, Llop has assured that the Government “does think of the Spanish” when it approves measures such as the minimum vital income, the ERTEs “in the midst of the pandemic” or the labor reform “to dignify workers”. “Think of them when they increase the minimum wage or when they approve scholarships for 2,500 million like the ones we approved this morning,” he has listed.
The Vox parliamentarian, for her part, has charged against the Executive of Pedro Sánchez for putting “in danger” the “security, well-being and freedom” of citizens by carrying out “reforms that benefit criminals and leave unprotected Spanish people”. Thus, Merelo has criticized that the Government carried out “a law that was intended to be a flag in defense of women and that became the opposite.”
“We warned you that it would end up benefiting the violators, but you decided to ignore us. Not only did you reject Vox’s notices, but you also ignored the reports from the Fiscal Council, the General Council of the Judiciary, the Council of State and the associations of jurists”, he snapped.
The senator has criticized that the “arrogance and bad intentions” of the Government have “brought up this situation.” “More than 500 attackers and 50 of them released. All thanks to the ‘yes is yes’. But the favorable treatment does not end here,” he assured, pointing to the reform of the Penal Code to “eliminate and reduce the penalties of those who embezzle or those who carry out coups d’état”.
“What is your government looking for by eliminating sedition and lowering the punishment for embezzlers and rapists? What do they want to achieve? Because this is not what the Spanish want. They had the responsibility of improving security but they have chosen to lower the punishment for rapists. They will be remembered as the government that unprotected the people to protect themselves,” Merelo concluded.
Llop, for his part, has highlighted the “mentality” of a party that “thinks that there have been people who have gone to prison for being separatists.” “They have gone to prison for committing crimes,” said the minister, referring to the leaders of the ‘procés’.
In this line, the head of Justice has highlighted that the Government has been “committed to the future and coexistence of Catalonia”. “It is true that pardons have been granted, but that they have helped to improve coexistence. The fear that gives me is that he thinks that there are people who can go to prison for their ideas,” she insisted.
Thus, the minister has expressed her concern about the “situation of absolute vulnerability” generated by the “ideas” of Vox, a party with a “political tradition that has gagged” the country “for 40 years and especially women “. “I don’t know if this seems normal to you”, she has concluded.
