{"id":49425,"date":"2022-11-22T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49425"},"modified":"2023-11-22T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:11:28","slug":"more-prison-for-hitting-a-dog-than-a-woman-the-new-legal-nonsense-of-the-spanish-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/22\/more-prison-for-hitting-a-dog-than-a-woman-the-new-legal-nonsense-of-the-spanish-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"More prison for hitting a dog than a woman: the new legal nonsense of the Spanish far-left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The far-left Spanish party Podemos has not yet emerged from the controversy over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/20\/a-serious-threat-against-spanish-society-and-only-one-party-is-taking-it-seriously\/\">the reduction of sentences for rapists<\/a> and he has already gotten into a new one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/20\/a-serious-threat-against-spanish-society-and-only-one-party-is-taking-it-seriously\/\">A serious threat against Spanish society and only one party is taking it seriously<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/11\/a-treacherous-and-corrupt-politician-who-changes-the-law-to-benefit-his-criminal-allies\/\">A treacherous and corrupt politician who changes the law to benefit his criminal allies<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The government did not want to consult the Judiciary for its law on animal abuse<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The new controversy has to do with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdsocialesa2030.gob.es\/servicio-a-la-ciudadania\/proyectos-normativos\/documentos\/LO_MODF_CODIGO_PENAL_ANIMALES.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Draft Bill to reform the Penal Code, regarding animal abuse (see PDF)<\/a> presented by the Ministry of Social Rights, headed by <strong>Ione Belarra<\/strong>, of the far-left party Podemos, the communist partner of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's socialists in the government of Spain. As it has done with other of its ideological laws, <strong>the government approved sending it to Congress in August without sending the text to the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ)<\/strong> to obtain its report on the matter. However, the Council -in a gesture of responsibility- has decided to issue it anyway after knowing the content of the draft. The CGPJ report is expected to be approved this Thursday and yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/sociedad\/medio-ambiente-00647\/noticia-cgpj-avisa-reforma-penas-maltrato-animal-puede-castigarse-mas-hombre-pegue-perro-pareja-20221121140800.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europa Press offered a preview of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>More punishment for hitting your dog than your wife<\/big><\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms of the CGPJ in said report is related to the principle of proportionality of sanctions. And it is that in the future law on animal abuse, <strong>it is punishable by between 3 and 18 months in jail for injuring \"a vertebrate animal\" (for example, a dog)<\/strong> (a novelty that this law intends to introduce through a new Article 340 bis in the Penal Code), when that injury <em>\"objectively requires veterinary treatment for its health\"<\/em>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/buscar\/act.php?id=BOE-A-1995-25444#a153\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Article 153 of the Penal Code<\/a> <strong>contemplates penalties of 6 months to one year prison if a man beats or mistreats his wife or ex-wife<\/strong>, <em>\"or a woman who is or has been linked to him by a similar affective relationship even without cohabitation, or a particularly vulnerable person who lives with the perpetrator\"<\/em>, if he does not cause her injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to Europa Press, <strong>the CGPJ points out that in this case the principle of proportionality may be affected<\/strong>, noting that the prison sentence provided for in the draft bill approved by the government for this case <strong>is higher than the which is currently established for the minor offense of coercion, that of minor threats<\/strong>, that of injuries that do not require medical or surgical treatment or that of mistreatment in the field of violence against women.<\/p>\n<p><big>The same punishment for minor injury to a dog as to a person<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the CGPJ warns that <strong>if the crime of injuries to vertebrate animals is compared<\/strong> that do not require veterinary treatment (point 4 of that new Article 340 bis that introduces the law on animal abuse) <strong> with the minor crime of injuring people<\/strong> that does not require medical or surgical treatment (typified by Article 147 of the Penal Code in point 2), <strong>the penalty is the same<\/strong>, that is, a fine of one to three months.<\/p>\n<p><big>The ideological arrogance of Podemos when drawing up laws<\/big><\/p>\n<p>We are facing <strong>a situation very similar to that generated by the \"sexual freedom law\"<\/strong>, also known as the \"only yes is yes law\". In both cases, what we find is the arrogance of <strong>a political party that believes that its ideology makes it superior to the rest, so it should not ask anyone for advice<\/strong> or listen to anyone's advice when drafting a law included in its political agenda, since <strong>all those who make an objection are suspected of being branded as ideological enemies<\/strong> (sexist, homophobic, racist, etc.). This way of approaching criticism is not something new in human history: <strong>it is the same attitude exhibited by totalitarian regimes such as communism<\/strong>, towards which many leaders of Podemos show their sympathies.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe. The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra (left), together with the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero. Both belong to the far-left Podemos party and are the protagonists of the latest scandals caused by the legal nonsense promoted by that party.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far-left Spanish party Podemos has not yet emerged from the controversy over the reduction of sentences for rapists and he has already gotten into a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[17885,10497,17886,11683,7841,11462],"class_list":["post-49425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-animal-abuse-bill-spain","tag-far-left","tag-general-council-of-the-judiciary-cgpj-of-spain","tag-ione-belarra","tag-podemos","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}