The Government will not repeal the reviewable permanent prison. The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has resolved the doubts that had arisen around the Government’s plans after the Constitutional Court recently endorsed this penalty, introduced in 2015 by the PP in the Penal Code. “Society does not deserve that the Government now reopen this debate that generates uncertainty in matters of great sensitivity and that it do so just when the Constitutional Court has already ruled,” said Llop during the control session in the Senate to questions from the PNV .
The Government has decided to “abide by” the Constitutional ruling on the reviewable permanent prison, which, according to Justice sources, implies renouncing to repeal this penalty. The sentence, these sources add, leaves little room for interpretation and the Government considers that the most sensible thing to do is not to reopen the debate. During his response to PNV senator Imanol Landa, Llop justified the decision on the need not to generate a new uncertainty in society, although he admitted that he is aware that a large part of the political groups in the Senate and Congress oppose this penalty. .
The minister recalled that the PP “imposed” permanent prison “against all groups” and “without prior reflection.” “But we would do a disservice if any decision were made with the same speed, without those previous studies lack of good sense that the permanent prison brought to our Penal Code. Society demands certainty from us ”, Llop has argued.
The endorsement of the Constitutional Court has come in response to an appeal presented by the PSOE, which in addition to challenging the rule, promised to repeal it when it regained power. With Sánchez already in La Moncloa, the Socialists chose to wait for the Constitutional Court to rule, which finally happened on October 6, when the court of guarantees gave the green light to this penalty by ten votes to three. “The Constitutional Court has already spoken, whether pronounced, and this represents a before and after in this matter that we are not going to ignore,” said Llop.
The Basque senator who asked Llop has demanded that the Government “act responsibly and with a high view” and remove the permanent prison from the Penal Code. “The defense of security must not undermine fundamental rights,” Landa lamented, before warning the Minister of Justice that this penalty represents a “setback” in the Spanish prison system.
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