He believes that they are right if unions linked to the right protest the repeal and he believes that the Prosecutor’s Office falsely closed the tragedy in Melilla
MADRID, 7 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy spokesman for Unidas Podemos in Congress, Enrique Santiago, has hoped that the presentation in the chamber for the reform of the Citizen Security Law, known by its detractors as the ‘gag law’, can be approved in this month of January. He has also opted to address the withdrawal of the use of rubber bullets within another legislative change, specifically in the one that regulates the police forces and that the Interior shows there a “political commitment” in that sense.
In an interview with Europa Press, the also spokesman for the confederal group in the Interior Commission has indicated that, in his opinion, “few obstacles” remain to achieve a parliamentarian after the progress made at the end of the year. He has even claimed that they are going in the “good direction” in the changes they are introducing in the face of protest plans managed by certain “politicized” right-wing police unions.
As Santiago has explained, after incorporating aspects such as grading the sanctions according to the economic capacity of the sanctioned party into the text, there are few issues to be resolved from his perspective and one of them deals with how the sanctions for lack of respect for authority are “objectified”. , matter in which it is necessary to be “pedagogical” and achieve a wording so that there are no “margins of subjectivity” when establishing what is disrespectful and what is not.
Moreover, he has lectured that the statistics show that, since it was no longer treated as a criminal offense (where its use was very scarce) to be transferred to the administrative level, there has been an “abusive use” and the sanctions have “multiplied” .
Another of the elements to unblock is disobedience, which must also be defined “very well” which situations entail sanction, being evident that all attitudes that endanger the safety of people must be sanctioned.
Regarding rubber balls, the IU deputy has also specified that they are not currently included in the Citizen Security Law and that his group advocates their non-use, as the countries around Spain do without security having been altered. . In fact, also citing the case of the Basque Country that has not been used for years despite not being prohibited.
Likewise, Santiago has opined that this matter would be better substantiated in another area, in a modification of the law that regulates the State Security Forces and Corps and that is where a “political commitment” from the Ministry of the Interior would be “adequate” to leave to use material such as rubber balls, which can cause “irreparable damage”, and advance in their replacement.
Consequently, he has hoped that “hopefully” this reform will come into force soon to repeal the most controversial aspects of this law, which is a “commitment” of the legislature that they have been working on for three years to comply with.
Regarding the rejection of the reform expressed by various police unions, Santiago has admitted that he is struck by the position of certain centrals, which “fortunately” are not all, which “openly claim the restriction of citizen rights”, when the law is ” positive” and enhances civil liberties.
Therefore, the also general secretary of the PCE has indicated that he is convinced that some unions “clearly politicized” and “linked to the right and the extreme right” are going to call protests, despite the fact that the repeal is not complete.
In this way, he has criticized the maintenance of this “political position” that “has nothing to do with the defense of rights” and the working conditions of its members and police officers in general, which have also been improved “like never before.” by the current Government with a rise of more than 30% of the salary so far in the legislature.
Regarding the tragedy caused by the death of migrants at the Melilla border fence on June 24, Santiago regretted that the Prosecutor’s Office “falsely closed” the investigation that it opened for that event, when it is evident that “a lot of investigation” had to be investigated. more so given that the images reveal that “a good part” of the events occurred on Spanish soil and it must be clarified why the Moroccan gendarmerie moved the victims to its territory.
However, Santiago does not close the door for the Public Ministry to reopen its proceedings for subsequent complaints or on its own initiative if there are new revelations and also shares that Congress must investigate what happened, but in a “subsidiary” way to the work that it has to do. make the prosecution
He has also emphasized that it is very important that embassies, consulates and border posts are perfectly empowered to manage asylum requests, since that way “nobody would have to jump any fence” and that the head of the Interior himself, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, promised to this in parliamentary headquarters, for which reason Unidas Podemos will be vigilant for its compliance.
