The amnesty law registered last week after the signing of the PSOE investiture agreement with the independence parties will begin its parliamentary process this week.
It will be tomorrow, Tuesday, when the Bureau of the Congress – which decides on the initiatives that are debated in plenary or not – will meet at ten in the morning with an intense agenda, in which there is the admission to procedure of the rule. Although the PP will directly oppose this admission, the progressive majority (PSOE-Sumar) that prevails in the governing body of the Chamber will, predictably, allow the regulation to be processed, which could be qualified the same day endorsed by a favorable report of the lawyers
So the law will begin a process that will be slow and tortuous. In fact, it will also be important to know when the Lower House is reactivated so that the commissions can start working, since the PSOE and Junts pact also contains specific precepts and the calendar of ordinary plenary sessions.
The new attorney general, Fernando Galindo, will sign the legal notes that will accompany the amnesty law registered on Monday by the PSOE, but which has the support of Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, the PNB and the BNG.
These same parties have shown their explicit support for the proposed law by also requesting the Bureau to process it urgently.
For its part, the PP has announced that it will exercise opposition to the governing body of the Lower House, because if the lawyers did not admit a similar law proposal in 2021 because they considered it unconstitutional, it should not be done now either. admit this.
The confrontation over the amnesty will be reactivated in Congress and the PP could request a reconsideration of the report of the new attorney general after having announced that it will present an appeal to the Constitutional Court if it is accepted.
Nevertheless, if tomorrow the majority of the Bureau qualifies the initiative, it will follow its parliamentary procedure, which will find special difficulties to advance in the Senate, as a result of the reform of the regulation promoted by the PP, which will slow down the emergency processing.
Vox has threatened to file a complaint for prevarication against the secretary general of Congress and against the deputies of the Bureau of the Chamber who agree to process it “despite knowing that it is unconstitutional”.
The Bureau will also approve the distribution of the quotas that each parliamentary group has to present initiatives to the plenary, and also the questions that each formation can register in the control sessions to the Government.
It will be pending to celebrate the solemn opening session of the legislature by the Kings, an institutional act for which there is still no date.
