It does not clarify what the Government’s proposal is to reform the Penal Code or if it is ERC who opposes it
MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Spokesperson of the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, has insisted today that there is not the “absolute majority” necessary to carry out the reform of the crime of sedition. However, after five questions from journalists, she has not clarified what the Government’s proposal would be, nor if it is ERC that opposes it. What she has done has been to pay attention to the need to carry out the “emblematic” Housing law that is being debated in Parliament.
The Republican party is demanding that this reform of the crime of sedition be carried out as soon as possible. His support for the 2023 Budgets had even been linked to the aforementioned reform of the Penal Code. Although this morning, the spokesman for the Republican Group in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, has lowered this position in an interview by stating that people are more concerned about mortgages than about sedition.
In this context, the Minister of Education has insisted that her party has always defended the reform of the crime of sedition because it is a “legislative commitment”. Thus, she has stressed that the Government wants to make the Spanish Penal Code “similar” to the most advanced European democracies in certain crimes.
But he has insisted that this debate has to be transferred to the Cortes and “for this, a parliamentary majority is needed, which seems evident that at this time it is not there.”
When asked what majority she is referring to, because the majority of the investiture would be enough to carry the reform forward, Pilar Alegría insisted that an “absolute majority” is needed and has once again hidden behind the fact that “today” it is not there is in Parliament.
However, he has pointed out that since 2018 the Government has been able to approve 165 regulatory proposals, including the labor reform or the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary. Having said this, he has established as one of the emblematic laws that the Executive must now carry out is the Housing Law, which “now that it is in Congress and has been debated for a few months.”
“The will of the Socialist Group is that it can see the light”, he added before insisting that “it is essential that in the history of democracy there can be a law as fundamental as this one on Housing”.
Nor has he responded to questions from journalists about what the Government’s proposal would be to modify this Law, or if ERC would be favorable to it or if he believes that this Parliamentary Group should publicly say what its position is in this regard. “I am the spokesperson for the PSOE and I have enough because what any other party should say does not correspond to me in any case,” she exclaimed.
