National Court judge Eloy Velasco accused Podemos and former Equality Minister Irene Montero during a conference on the so-called “only yes means yes” law, approved in 2022. “They tried to explain to us what consent means… “For a jurist, whom we follow since Roman law, knowing what consent is (…) and a thousand other things that Irene Montero will never learn of her cashier from Mercadona,” Velasco said, as one might think. seen in a video published by The Country.
His remarks took place during a conference as part of V International Compliance Week, organized on November 13, an event to which participants pay between 300 and 400 euros to attend. Velasco was scheduled to speak for an hour and a half in an expert opinion course and use part of his time to criticize the PSOE-Podemos coalition government.
The magistrate notably questioned its legitimacy: “I understand that, when you are the fifth political party which lost the elections and you have four cats, but the second party which lost needs them. [PSOE] pass in number of members to the first game that won [PP]your legitimacy is much less than if you had won the elections.” Velasco refers to the last elections, in which Podemos, which participated within Sumar, was together the fourth most voted force, and not the fifth.
Velasco, who was an instructor in the plots of Púnica or Lezo, affirms that the PSOE left the “María subjects” – in reference to the distribution of ministries in the coalition – for the party currently led by Ione Belarra and “the most important » for the socialists. “I don’t know if they thought they were very important, but that’s what they did to them,” he insists.
It is at this moment that the magistrate assures that in this training “they believed” that they were “showing the world” to lawyers when the Ministry of Equality applied the law “only yes means yes”. “For a jurist, who has existed since Roman law, knowing what consent is. And express and tacit consent, and the acts resulting therefrom. And a thousand other things that Irene Montero will never learn from her Mercadona ATM and that she will not be able to teach us either.
El País, which had access to the extracts from Podemos, assures in its information that the association which organizes the event refused to facilitate the complete recording of Velasco’s speech.
