visit Deputies of the Equality Committee of the European Parliament go to Spain This is one of the topics that Ana Rosa Quintana addressed in this Thursday’s editorial. The host was once again stern in his attack on Irene Montero, whom she accused of not telling the truth before this commission because of the well-known ‘yes is yes only’ law: “They saw how the Minister of Equality lied to their face beyond Orión.“.
“Like a robot, he said the numbers were wrong, but the General Assembly of the Judiciary declared that the ‘only yes is yes’ law was irreversible. “It will result in up to 4,000 reductions in fines and the review will take five years,” the journalist said at the beginning of Telecinco’s morning programme.
The presenter also summed up his words, assuring that Elżbieta Łukacijewska, the head of this European Parliament delegation, “has never seen a situation like ‘yes only is yes’ in Europe”: “Nine MPs return to Brussels after seeing things they would never believe“.
“They saw attacks on fachas con toga in the coalition government, they saw close to 600 sentence reductions, and nearly 50 rapists came out of the prison gates. They saw irreparable equality policies that they did not see a solution for.. “As much as Montero seems to want meetings in Congress, they don’t see any intention to fix it,” he said.
To put this into context, it should be remembered that a delegation from the European Parliament traveled to Spain this week to learn about Spain’s equality policies, at a time marked by the debate over the ‘yes is yes only’ law. Nine parliamentarians from the Equality Commission of the European Chamber have participated in this mission. whose first goal is to know the developments in this field.particularly in relation to the fight against violence against women, care and addiction and trafficking in human beings.
In particular, among the members were three representatives of the European People’s Party (including Elżbieta Łukacijewska, the head of this European Parliament delegation), two from the Socialists and Democrats group, and one from Renew (liberals, especially Cs representative Soraya Rodríguez). , one from Los Verdes, another from the Left Group (Podemos), and the last from the Conservatives (Vox).
The agenda of this mission of the European Parliament was filled with meetings with different levels of Spanish society: on Justice, Equality, in Congress and the Senate, the General Council of the Judiciary Observatory on Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, women’s associations…