The anger between the government partners causes astonishment in their parliamentary allies

"This is a vaudeville," agree Cuca Gamarra, spokesman for the PP, and Ferran Bel, one of the most faithful allies of the Government representing the PDeCAT.

“A nonsense.

The Government is doing a lot of damage ”, Íñigo Errejón, another almost unwavering support of the Executive, hurts.

After Errejón it is Joan Baldoví, from Compromís, who appears in the press room of Congress and the chorus of lamentations continues: “I want to show my dismay at what is happening with the law of

”.

And then Gabriel Rufián, from ERC, will still arrive to distance himself from the fight: "We are not going to contribute to the noise."

The increasing noise was what had been unleashed since early Tuesday morning, in the midst of the stupor of the formations that have supported the coalition Executive for the last three years, after a new and abrupt clash between leaders of the PSOE and United We Can.

The reproaches about the law of

became more and more acid as a result of an interview by Àngels Barceló with the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, on the

of Cadena SER, which provoked prominent members of UP and the Ministry of Equality.

The calls to the responsibility of the foreign allies and the watermarks of other leaders of the minority partner of the Executive such as Jaume Asens, president of the parliamentary group, not to pour more gasoline on the bonfire, barely managed to break through in the midst of the hubbub that had been organized with the words of Llop.

And meanwhile, the PP contemplating the "show" with delight.

"Sánchez has given instructions to go on the attack against the other part of the Government," Gamarra hastened to interpret.

In the SER, Llop began by saying that the norm elaborated by his colleague Irene Montero "is a great law" and then he dedicated himself to denouncing some "very serious" aspects of it.

Listening to the minister, anyone could have forgotten that the socialist part of the Government, her deputies in Congress and her senators supported her without question.

Because this time Llop no longer spoke of "unwanted" consequences, as the Socialists have been doing.

The head of Justice referred to a question that was not hidden among any hidden fold of the norm nor did it depend on the particular interpretation of a judge, but was specified very clearly in the literalness of its articles: the penalties established for the sexual assault with intimidation, which, according to her,

"A robbery with violence or intimidation is punishable by two to five years in prison, but touching a woman and beating her is punishable by one to four years in prison," the minister illustrated with a denouncer tone.

Llop did not answer the question as to why the PSOE did not oppose it at the time and began to insist with increasing emphasis: "In what democratic system can this happen? Since when is property worth more than sexual freedom?

Three hours after the interview with Llop, the President of the Government went to Congress to lecture the socialist parliamentary group on the issue and stated: "It is evident that, a few months after its entry into force, the law has had some unwanted effects on your application.

I say unwanted effects and I fall short, because no one, not even the Executive,

However, it was not that speech by Llop that most outraged the Ministry of Equality and the hard core of Podemos.

What unleashed the depths of the Twitter fury of the leaders of that formation was that the minister affirmed that it is "very simple" to demonstrate that there has been violence in a rape.

"With a wound you can already prove it," she said.

Llop touched on the key point of the disagreements between the PSOE proposal and the theses of Equality.

Montero's ministry maintains that establishing a penal type to aggravate penalties in case of violence will mean that the assaulted women will once again go through the "probative ordeal" of having to prove that they resisted.

And the social networks of the main leaders of Podemos immediately roared against the head of Justice.

Not even Pablo Iglesias himself, that man who claimed to be retired from politics, missed the appointment.

“Again the women must prove that they tried to close their legs and resisted.

Again the penal model of the herd.

Thank you PSOE ”, wrote the former vice president.

Until a few days ago, the two sides were talking about how this should be a "technical discussion."

Now the matter has descended to other less subtle territories, such as calling the previous law the “Penal Code of La Manada”, a semantic finding that has become inseparable from the discourse of any Podemos leader.

It was used, among many others, by his parliamentary spokesperson, Pablo Echenique, to insist on the accusation that the PSOE wants to recover that model.

The Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, as well as the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez, or the Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, fueled the avalanche of criticism.

Rodríguez, Montero's

in the ministry, responded this way in an interview in

to the question about the tension within the Government: “Call it tension, call it conflict, call it feminist politics… We couldn't stop answering.

If not, why is there a Ministry of Equality?

The law of

it has ended up monopolizing current affairs so much that the PP no longer deals with anything else.

It was evidenced as few times in the plenary session this Tuesday in the Senate, where his spokesperson, Javier Maroto, completely ignored the economic issue in his question to the First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño.

Neither inflation, nor GDP forecasts, nor anything similar: Maroto attacked Calviño with the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders.

Her partner Patricia Rodríguez Calleja had the opportunity to ask Irene Montero directly and tried to compromise her by reading her a list of critical statements about the law of socialist leaders.

The minister did not enter the rag, although she joined the chorus of those who warn that we should not return to the already baptized "Penal Code of La Manada".

The socialist senators did not applaud Montero.

Yes, her roommate did, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, who later, in a few brief statements in the corridors, dodged questions about Llop and tried to close the stormy day with a conciliatory message.

"When the Government works together and in common, we advance in rights," Díaz stressed.

"I call for serenity and to meet, to reach out."

Díaz has avoided in recent days both criticism of the PSOE and any gesture that could be interpreted as a departure from the position of Podemos and ended with a message to the entire Executive: "Let's continue working for our country, expanding rights and telling the society that we are going to take care of the progressive coalition”.

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