The European People’s Party (EPP) has managed to include a debate on the amnesty law on the agenda of the next plenary session of the European Parliament. The conference of presidents of the institution agreed this morning to include the issue on the agenda of the next plenary session, as La Vanguardia has learned from parliamentary sources. The debate, which was also called for by the European liberal group, renew, to which Ciudadanos is attached, will take place on Wednesday at 2 p.m. as another point on the agenda.
The discussion will be titled “Threat to the rule of law as a consequence of the Government agreement in Spain”, and it has been agreed that the European Commission and the Council will also participate in it. It so happens that during this semester the rotating presidency of this institution is in the hands of Spain, so a representative of the Spanish Government must intervene in the debate but not as such but on behalf of the Twenty-Seven, from a negotiator position. neutral.
“Europe cannot look the other way and the PP will do everything it can and more than it can to stop this roadmap of demolition of the rule of law by Sánchez,” the leader of the ranks celebrated on social networks. of the Popular Party in the European Chamber, Dolors Montserrat, who denounces the “erosion of the rule of law” in Spain as a consequence of the pacts that will allow Pedro Sánchez to govern again.
The call for this debate may give rise to the European Commission, which last week requested information from the acting Government on the amnesty law, to present the conclusions of its analysis of the legal text presented in Congress, which it already has in its possession. . Also the group of European Conservatives and Reformists, to which Vox is attached, had asked to hold a debate on the amnesty law and the recent Government agreements in Spain, a request that in its case explicitly mentioned the proposal for “an amnesty law unconstitutional”.
