In his list he includes the laws of stolen babies, official secrets and the ELA, in addition to the penal reform of insults to the Crown,
MADRID, 13 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Unidas Podemos has demanded that the PSOE unblock seven laws whose parliamentary processing is stuck in Congress by dragging successive extensions in Congress despite the fact that their consideration went ahead with majority support in Congress.
Specifically, the minority partner of the Executive demands to activate the Stolen Babies Law, the Official Secrets Law, the law on delinquency, the regulations on patient safety, the proposed law to decriminalize the so-called crimes of opinion (such as insults corona), the Mental Health Act and the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Act.
According to sources from the purple formation, these seven regulations accumulate a total of 510 extensions and two of them (stolen babies and late payment) have been in that phase since September 2020, without new steps forward after two and a half years.
Thus, they make it ugly that this parliamentary practice consisting of chaining successive extensions of the period to present amendments is used, thus extending the deadlines to promote these legislative initiatives.
In this way, the purples warn that “it would not be understood that there were no advances in these matters before the end of the legislature”, taking into account that the majority of Congress supported the consideration of these laws in their day. For this reason, they urge their government partner to unfreeze parliamentary work to approve them as soon as possible.
The decision to extend or not the deadlines for the presentation of amendments is adopted every Tuesday by the Congress Table, where the PSOE and United We Can have an absolute majority (six of the nine seats).
Podemos has been calling on the PSOE for some time to act courageously and speed up key legislative projects for the coalition Executive in the final stretch of the legislature, such as the Housing Law and the reform of the Citizen Security Law, known as the gag’ by his detractors.
Regarding the case of housing, the confederal space has recently highlighted that progress has been made while in the second case the presentation has already been closed but the partners in the investiture of the Government maintain their discrepancies, which will now have to be resolved in a public session in the Interior Commission of the Congress.
Recently, the purples supported, together with other parliamentary groups, the groups promoting the bill on stolen babies, which delivered 80,000 signatures to reactivate its parliamentary process.
In addition, the claim of the formation comes after the clash of the partners for the reform of the Law only if it is yes in Congress, which the PSOE has registered alone and which the purple criticizes, understanding that it means returning to the previous criminal model and does not guarantee that consent remains at the center of the law.