The popular and their partners advance in their strategy to prevent the amendments to the text of PSOE, Cs and Podemos from prospering in Madrid
The Regional Assembly will hold an extraordinary plenary session this Thursday afternoon to debate and vote on the withdrawal of the draft reform of the Statute of Autonomy of the Region of Murcia, whose text is in the process of amendments in the Congress of Deputies. The parliamentary groups Popular, Ciudadanos and Vox registered the petition after modifying the Chamber’s Regulations yesterday to have a legal tool that allows that claim.
In a letter addressed to the Board of the Assembly, Joaquín Segado, Francisco Álvarez and Juan José Liarte, on behalf of the three political groups, asked the Plenary to assume said proposal through the urgent process and set the maximum term for this debate Thursday.
In an extraordinary session held previously, the deputies of the PP and those expelled from Cs and Vox carried out without any other support the proposed reform of the Regulations of the Regional Assembly to allow the Plenary to withdraw at any time a legislative initiative already in processing. This is what happens with the draft reform of the Statute, approved on April 1, 2019 and which, as is mandatory, is under review by the Cortes Generales. The regulatory reform comes into force today, after its publication in the official gazettes of the Assembly, the Region and the State.
The deputies who support López Miras change the Chamber’s Regulations to give legal support to his petition
The popular and their government partners intend to rescue the Statute reform project in disagreement with the majority of the 53 amendments registered by the PSOE, Ciudadanos, Unidas Podemos and Más País to the original text. Some of them are aimed at limiting the mandates of the regional president to two, which would prevent Fernando López Miras from being a candidate again, and to establish measures against political transfuguism.
However, the proponents of the rescue assure that they act in this way due to the refusal of the Socialists and their government partners to shield the Tajo-Segura Crossing and guarantee the water that the Murcian countryside needs, as well as the reluctance to recognize in the Statute the need to improve the financing of the Autonomous Community.
Regulation reform
The PP and those expelled from Ciudadanos and Vox use their majority in the regional Chamber to advance a strategy that allows them to neutralize the amendments to the Statute. The first victory was scored yesterday in the session called to reform the Regulations, to which they added a new article, 225, with their 23 votes. 16 PSOE deputies spoke out (at the time of voting, Manuel Sevilla was out of the hemicycle) and the two from Ciudadanos. Pascual Salvador, from Vox, abstained and the two representatives of Podemos left the room on purpose.
The Socialists raise doubts about the legality of the operation and Molina predicts that it will end in court
At the beginning of the session, the Socialist Group unsuccessfully requested the withdrawal of the single point of debate and voting. His spokesman, Diego Conesa, raised doubts about the type of majority necessary to adopt agreements of this magnitude. He recalled that the Statute, in its article 55, requires a qualified majority of three fifths for its own reform. So he demanded that, in application of the legal principle of ‘contrarius actus’, the same majority be requested to request Congress to suspend regulations of this magnitude. The popular and their partners would not now reach this qualified majority. But they do have an absolute that yesterday allowed them to stop the PSOE’s approach and the request for a written legal report to resolve doubts.
SO THEY SEE IT
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Diego Conesa. Socialist Group: “The PP and the defectors throw away twelve years of negotiation”
«The PP and the defectors make a reform à la carte, with a short and tricky dribble play. They throw away twelve years of political negotiation. We cannot renounce the process of amendments in the Courts as an opportunity to improve the Statute or even polish aspects that may raise doubts of constitutionality. ” -
Joaquin Segado. Popular Group: “No party in Madrid may adulterate regional sovereignty”
The spokesman claimed that the reform of the Regulation will allow any initiative submitted to the Congress of Deputies “to be piloted by the Assembly itself, which has presented and promoted it, and that no political group in Madrid can adulterate the sovereignty that emanates from this Regional Assembly ». -
Francisco Álvarez. Grupo Ciudadanos: “The amendments betray the will of Murcians”
“It is one thing that the Statute is raised to Congress to make technical corrections and modifications and another thing is what you have done, without the consensus of this Assembly, betraying the will of Murcia: you have presented some sectarian and revengeful amendments”, He told the PSOE, We can already his ex-party. -
Juan José Liarte. Grupo Vox: “The PSOE announced that it would settle accounts for the motion of censure”
The spokesman denounced that the socialist deputy, Alfonso Martínez Baños, had already announced that they would “settle political scores” in Madrid because the motion of censure of the PSOE and Ciudadanos against López Miras had not been successful. «And it is not true that there is no legal report. The lawyer reported ‘in voce’ at the Board of Spokespersons, “he added. -
Maria Marin. Mixed Group: “This is a banana democracy run by a tyrant”
The deputy of Podemos demanded a legal report for a regulatory modification “at least controversial.” He denounced that the Regulations cannot be changed according to the needs of the Government and denounced the transformation of the Assembly into a “banana democracy” led by a “tyrant” as “if it were his farm.”
Conesa also accused the popular and their allies of breaking the consensus and using “tricks” to avoid amendments to the Statute. And he unsuccessfully requested the abstention of Castillo to stop the regulatory reform.
For the Mixed Group, the deputy of Podemos María Marín denounced the transformation of the Assembly into a “banana democracy” led by a “tyrant” as “if it were his farmhouse” and Juan José Molina, from Cs, predicted that the regulatory change will end in court.
Juan José Liarte, from the Vox Group, defended that the Assembly have a tool to defend regional sovereignty in what affects its laws and Francisco Álvarez, from Cs, accused the “left alliance” of betraying the will of Murcia with “sectarian and revengeful” amendments. According to Joaquín Segado, of the PP, “they have introduced amendments to organize the government in the Region with the votes of ERC and Bildu.”
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