MADRID, 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Congress Board has rejected this Tuesday, with the votes of the PSOE and Sumar, the PP’s request that the governing body seek the opinion of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Fiscal Council on the proposed amnesty law that the PSOE has agreed with the independentists of ERC and Junts.
According to ‘popular’ sources, their representatives on the Board have defended the convenience of the governing body of the judges and also the prosecutors ruling on a law as relevant as the one that seeks to amnesty those accused in the Catalan independence process. and that, from their point of view, is unconstitutional.
The request for this type of reports is mandatory in the case of bills, but not when it comes to legislative proposals, which is the route that the PSOE has used to process the norm in Congress.
Precisely, the PP insists that it was Minister Félix Bolaños and not spokesperson Patxi López who was in charge of presenting the initiative at a press conference in Congress. He was then acting Minister of the Presidency and has now also assumed the Justice portfolio to ensure its application.
And they emphasize that Bolaños himself explained that it was a “bill” that was “vehiculated through a bill”, which, they argue, should have those reports from the CGPJ and the Fiscal Council.
The PP maintains that both bodies could help clear up doubts and clarify some of the terms contained in the bill and denounces the refusal of the groups that make up the coalition government.
Vox has also requested that a report be requested from the CGPJ, but it did so this Monday without giving time for the matter to be included in the agenda of the Board meeting this Tuesday. The request will likely be studied next week and will follow the same path.
In addition, the Congress Board has submitted to the Board of Spokespersons the reconsideration document presented by the PP against the qualification of the Amnesty Law. The ‘popular’ argue that it is an unconstitutional text and want the governing body of the Chamber to revoke its decision to give the green light to its processing.
The Board will make a final decision on this appeal after listening to the Board of Spokespersons, which does not plan to meet until next week. In any case, the PP’s request has no signs of going ahead, since both in the Board and in the Table there are a majority in favor of the bill continuing its processing in Congress.
Once the Congress Board definitively rejects the PP’s appeal for reconsideration, the ‘popular’ will have free rein to appeal the qualification of the amnesty law before the Constitutional Court.
