Taking into consideration the reform of the gag law with the vote in favor of the left of the parliamentary arc, in addition to Canarian Coalition. People’s Party (PP), Vox and Union of the Navarrese People (UPN) have opposed it, but the support of the investiture majority has been enough for the initiative to overcome this first parliamentary barrier. “Today we lay the first stone to put an end to a law that has restricted our freedom of expression“said the socialist David Serrada.
The truth, in any case, is that this Tuesday begins a process that is far from simple. Can has already warned in a parliamentary forum that it will try to amend the text because, as this media explained yesterdaythey do not consider that the agreement between EH Bildu and PSOE for the reform of the Citizen Security Law to fully ensure the prohibition of rubber balls and hot returns.
The support of those of Ione Belarra It is, therefore, critical and constitutes the beginning of what will be arduous negotiations. Also that of Together it is. The post-convergent They aspire to a “total repeal” of the law and to incorporate specific nuances for Catalonia.
In any case, the socialists and several of their allies in Congress have celebrated that the reform of the law is underway. Serrada has assured that “for the PP”, this norm “must protect a part of society” and for the socialists “it must protect the entire society“. In that same sense, Enrique Santiagodeputy of Sumar and spokesperson for United Left (IU) in the Lower House, has insisted that “the practice of the PP in the Government is the cut of rights“.
Much of the speech of those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo against the reform of the law, promoted by the Executive of Mariano Rajoyfocuses on the “vulnerability“of police officers, as stated Miguel Tellado in his interventions on the platform.
Santiago has come out against these criticisms and has assured that the police will have “of more means to do your job“and wanted to send a message of calm to the police unions. Some of them have manifested in the vicinity of Congress against the reform of the norm this Tuesday. Vox deputies and some popularamong them, Feijóo himself, have gone out to the San Jerónimo roundabout to show their support.
Jon Inarritufor his part, has highlighted the fact that his party, EH Bildu, and the PSOE have managed to agree on the points that during the last legislature forced the abertzales and ERC to oppose the final approval of the norm. The Republican Francesc-Marc Alvaro has slipped that ERC celebrates that “finally” the PSOE has approached “its territory” and understood its demands.
Four conflicting points
During the last legislature, the reform of the gag law was about to go ahead, but EH Bildu and ERC rejected it from doing so if it was not contemplated ban on rubber ballsthe hot returns and a modification of the sanctions for lack of respect for authority and disobedience. The four points are found in the current agreement.
Iñarritu has especially highlighted the changes in sanctions for disrespect for authority and disobedience. “They are the two articles of the law that more sanctions have entailed“. In both cases, always according to Iñarritu, the “arbitrariness“and, in the case of lack of respect for agents, a point is added to eliminate any fine or sanction if there is retraction. It is a change that “makes the law more progressive“.
Where Podemos sees problems and even some other formations such as the ERC itself is in the period scheduling to remove the rubber balls and replace them with a less harmful material. It is something that the groups will have to work on in the amendments phase. Also the fact that the prohibition of hot returns depends on the approval of a subsequent reform of the immigration lawas dictated by the agreement between socialists and abertzales.
In any case, the agreed reform advances this Tuesday in Congress and returns to parliamentary processing. It is a pending account from the last legislature, in addition to a failure of progressive forceswho were unable to reach a consensus to move it forward. The issues of the current negotiation seem somewhat better, but it will not be free of nuances and complexities.
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