The amnesty law registered last week after the signing of the PSOE investiture agreement with the pro-independence parties will begin its parliamentary processing this week.
It will be tomorrow, Tuesday, when the Congress Board – which decides on the initiatives that are or are not debated in plenary – will meet at 10 in the morning with an intense agenda, which includes the admission of the norm for processing. Although the PP will frontally oppose said 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 that same day supported by a favorable report from the lawyers. .
In this way, 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 begin to work, since in the pact of the PSOE and Junts there are also specific precepts, as well as the calendar of ordinary plenary sessions.
The new senior lawyer, Fernando Galindo, will sign the legal annotations that will accompany the amnesty law registered last Monday by the PSOE, but which has the support of Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV and BNG.
These same parties have shown their explicit support for the bill, also requesting the Board to process it urgently.
For their part, the popular have already announced that they will exercise their opposition in the governing body of the Lower House because if the lawyers did not admit a similar bill in 2021 because they considered it unconstitutional, this one should not be admitted now either.
The confrontation over the amnesty will thus be activated again in Congress and the PP could request a reconsideration of the new senior lawyer’s report after having announced that it will present an appeal to the Constitutional Court if it is admitted for processing.
However, if tomorrow the majority of the Board qualifies the initiative, it will continue its parliamentary process, which will encounter special difficulties to advance in the Senate, as a consequence of the reform of the regulations promoted by the PP, which will stop the emergency processing.
For its part, Vox has also threatened to file a complaint for prevarication against the general secretary of Congress and against the deputies of the Board who agree to process it “knowing of its unconstitutionality.”
The Board will also approve the distribution of the quotas that each parliamentary group has to present initiatives in plenary, as well as the questions that each group may register in the control sessions to the Government.
It will still be necessary to celebrate the solemn opening session of the legislature by the Kings, an institutional act for which there is still no date.
