The Table of Congress of Deputiesthe governing body of the Lower House, approved in its meeting this Tuesday the decision to appear against the PP’s appeal of unconstitutionality to the amnesty law for the ‘procés’, admitted for processing last week by the Constitutional Court ( TC).
The Board, with a majority from the PSOE and Sumar, takes this step after the guarantee body accepts its study. The popular ones, according to parliamentary sources consulted by ABC, had requested that at least the arguments of the two parties that make the decision be raised and not those of the legal services of the Lower House, which will be the ones that are finally included in the document of personation.
Congress can act directly as a party in the amnesty process, as explained to this newspaper from those around the president of the Lower House, the socialist Francina Armengol. From the beginning of the law’s processing, the institution’s senior lawyer, Fernando Galindo—appointed days before the regulation was qualified and coming from a position in the current Government—endorsed the amnesty debate, despite that his predecessor in office recommended his inadmissibility the previous legislature —criterion to which the PSOE adhered— for clashing with the Constitution.
The amnesty, which the Executive called “clearly unconstitutional” before the 23-J elections, after which Pedro Sánchez could only revalidate his position if he included Junts, the party of fugitive Carles Puigdemont, among his supporters, prospered in the Congress amid strong criticism from PP and Vox, but it was vetoed by the Senate, which even threatened to raise a conflict of powers before the TC, precisely because it was considered contrary to the Magna Carta. The Lower House lifted the veto and definitively approved it and, for now, the judges are applying it with the exception of the crime of embezzlement, which the Supreme Court has determined has no place in the law.
The PP presented an appeal for unconstitutionality, admitted for processing last week by the guarantee body, which, however, rejected as “premature” the challenge of magistrate José María Macías, who is still designated as its rapporteur. The Congress Board now decides to appear against the popular procedure.
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