Espadas rules out requesting precautionary measures and does not foresee that the appeal will affect the processing times in the Senate
The PSOE will register this Tuesday, December 19, in the Constitutional Court (TC) its appeal of unconstitutionality against the reform of the Regulation that was approved last month at the proposal of the PP with the intention of delaying the processing of the proposal for up to two months. amnesty law in the Upper House.
This was announced by the PSOE spokesperson in the Senate, Juan Espadas, in an interview on TVE’s La 1 collected by Europa Press in which he announced the registration of said appeal by his parliamentary group in the TC, understanding that said reform promoted by the PP is “clearly unconstitutional.”
Juan Espadas has thus criticized the “partisan use” that, in his opinion, the PP makes of the Senate, and has accused the ‘popular’ of wanting to “turn this legislature into a permanent manipulation of the role of the institutions.”
The socialist representative has explained that the PSOE is going to appeal this reform of the Senate regulations because “we understand that altering the processing that the Constitution itself establishes for the legislative initiatives of the Congress and Senate” – in this specific case, for the proposal of the amnesty law for those prosecuted for the Catalan independence process– when it reaches the Senate “it seems clearly unconstitutional to us”, something that is also “backed by rulings of the court itself”, according to Espadas.
The general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE has considered that this reform of the PP is “an example of manipulation and use” of the Senate by the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which has an absolute majority in the Senate, as he recalled.
Espadas has indicated that this initiative “will be processed throughout the remainder of December and the month of January”, and the appeal that the PSOE will register this Tuesday in the TC seeks to ensure that the emergency processing that has been agreed the Lower House for this initiative “cannot be modified” in the Senate “simply because of the new regulation.”
Of course, the spokesperson for the Socialists in the Senate has explained that their Parliamentary Group has refused to request precautionary measures in the Constitutional Court, alleging that they seek to “respect the independence” of the Court’s decision and the autonomy of the legislative power.
“That is, we do not want to induce confusion so that in some way the processing of the rule here would be conditioned by the regulations, unless the Constitutional Court understood another issue,” Espadas explained in a press conference from the Senate.
Likewise, he recalled that a precedent was already generated a year ago when the Constitutional Court was studying the precautionary measures in the processing in the Senate of the reform of the Penal Code on embezzlement and sedition.
In any case, the socialists anticipate that the Constitutional Court will not issue its ruling on this appeal for some time, predicting that it will not predictably affect the deadlines in the processing of the amnesty law in the Upper House.
