The ‘Alves case’ as a symptom on the left

The left accuses the pendulum in the field of feminism. It took little time for many authorized voices to get on top of Vice President María Jesús Montero for her statements about the presumption of innocence following Dani Alves’ sentence, or to charge against Irene Montero’s arguments. It is that believing that nothing has changed between 2025 and 2018—when the Manada case broke out—will only generate even more frustration among progressive ra…

The government has backed the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, after she called the sentence that acquitted the former footballer a "shame"...

Consent is once again at the center of judicial and social debate in Spain following the acquittal of Dani Alves by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). The reversal of his rape conviction, based on the lack of "reliability" of the victim's testimony and the absence of conclusive evidence, has rekindled concerns about the interpretation of sexual violence in the courts and raised a key question: What message is being sent to victims of…

Dani Alves’ sentence has given a lot to talk about. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has expressed his opinion on the statements given by María Jesús Montero, the first vice president of the government, about the sentence that absolves the footballer of the crime of rape. [...] The Zapatero entry raises the tone in the interview with Ferreras: “A little objectivity” was first published in Cadena Dial.

María Jesús Montero has to risk as a candidate in Andalusia: Juanma Moreno seems unbeatable in which only a few years ago he was an untouchable socialist fiefdom. To remember that he is in the race he has decided to call attention and pull out of feminist populism (which does not “discourse”), assuming that Dani Alves is not innocent even if a court has said so. Now he collects cable but knows that he has opened a pocho melon, of those who smell…

The first vice president of the government and leader of the Andalusian PSOE, María Jesús Montero, apologized this Tuesday in Seville for questioning the presumption of innocence in the case of Dani Alves. After the stir caused by his statements and after all the associations of judges and prosecutors asked the number two of the government to retract, Montero did so. "I believe that if from the literality of the expression I used it can be concl…