The spokesperson for the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, announced this Friday that her group will raise before the Constitutional Court a “conflict of powers” between the Upper House and Congress after it has not approved the veto after the deadline. against the law that accumulates the sentences that prisoners may have served in other EU countries. Meanwhile, the law continues its course: Congress has confirmed that it has already been sent to the Government to be published in the BOE, which practically closes the door to rectifying the decision adopted by the Chamber Board on last Tuesday and that the PP has appealed.
García has accused Francina Armengol of “boycotting the powers of the Senate and usurping the ability to interpret the Regulations of this Chamber, something that is not her responsibility” and of “gagging” the Chamber, all after the PP supported the law in Congress and will not present any amendment, total or partial, against the text for weeks.
The PP thus maintains its strategy of trying hide your own fiasco, still not clearly explainedwith accusations against the Government. The PP allowed a Sumar amendment to pass in Congress that equalizes the rights of Spanish prisoners with those of other countries in the European Union. In the Justice Commission of Congress it approved the complete opinion of the legal reform, and later in the Plenary Session it also voted in favor. In fact, the rule came out unanimously: the 346 deputies present voted in favor.
The text then went to the Senate, where the PP has an absolute majority. But Alicia García’s group followed in the footsteps of her colleagues in Congress and did not register any amendments. Neither partial nor veto. With the deadlines already met, the media warned of the consequences of the law, that could benefit ETA prisonersand that was when the PP tried to stop the rule. Thus, and against what was expected, the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, took advantage of a purely testimonial vote to consider the law vetoed and return it to Congress. The Lower House Table, after an oral report by the senior lawyer, decided not to consider the veto produced. That is the decision that the PP now wants to take to the Constitutional Court.
This Friday, the decision of the Congressional Board was already published in the Bulletin of the Cortes Generales, emphasizing that the Senate did not communicate its veto in the terms required by the Constitution and that the rejection vote, produced after the deadline, “does not “It can be considered a veto for the purposes of the provisions of article 90.2 of the Constitution and constitutional jurisprudence.”
Consequently, it is reported that the Presidency of the Chamber will transfer the bill to the Government “for the purposes of submitting it, by the usual procedure, to the provisions of article 91 of the Constitution”, that is, the signature by the king and publication in the Official State Gazette.
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