The institutional confrontation between Congress and Senate over the legal reform that will cause the release of ETA prisoners earlier than expected could turn politically against the Popular Party like a boomerang. This Tuesday, the Lower House Board has decided that it will publish the bill in the BOE considering that it was ratified after the deadline and also by not considering valid the argument of the president of the Senate, the popular Pedro Rollán, at the end of this Monday’s session. Supported by a report from the lawyers, the fourth institution of the State equated the rejection by an absolute majority of the plenary session with a “veto” that had not been registered in a timely manner according to article 107.2 of the Regulations; that is, in writing and motivated. After the refusal of the Congress Board, chaired by the socialist Francina Armengol, Vox – which voted against the legislative initiative together with the PP and UPN – has registered a letter before the Senate Board asking that it raise an institutional conflict before the Constitutional Court chosen in article 73 et seq. of its organic law.
The Popular Party now finds itself in the position of joining the far-right formation and clashing with Congress. Or else turn a deaf ear to their demands in the Chamber where they have an absolute majority and total margin of action. A dilemma that in any case will serve as ammunition for the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, against his former partner in five regional governments. If so, the ultras will try to convey that the success of taking the rest against the Government is theirs. But, otherwise, they will be able to accuse the popular ones of flattening themselves, as has happened on other occasions. “The only remedy, unless the Government reconsiders and withdraws the bill or the Congressional Committee recognizes its error and amends its decision, is the constitutional conflict regulated in articles 73 and following of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court,” Vox points out in the brief presented to the Board on Tuesday afternoon.
Following the decision of the Lower House Board, the spokesperson for the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, has accused Armengol through social network X of once again “putting Congress at the service of Sanchismo.” “He abuses his power to make Sánchez fulfill his hooded pact. From the PP in the Senate we defend the absolute majority that the plenary session of the Senate has endorsed to reject and veto an unworthy law,” he stated. But, for the moment, the popular have not announced any response movement. The letter has already been sent from Congress to the Senate, although the Board does not have to meet until next Tuesday to address the matter.
Already this Monday, during the debate on the reform, the Vox spokesperson in the Senate, Paloma Gómez, pressured the popular party from the platform, demanding that they make use of their absolute majority to suspend the plenary session and open a new period of amendments. The question provoked boos from the PP senators. And this Tuesday they take another step in their pressure on Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s formation. “We apologize to the victims, it cannot occur to anyone that Vox is in favor of putting ETA criminals and terrorists on the streets,” said Senator Gómez.
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