The PP, in an unprecedented act in Spanish democracy, raised yesterday from the Senate, where it has an absolute majority, an institutional conflict with Congress over the processing of the Amnesty law that it considers unconstitutional. Specifically, he announced that he will take an initiative to the Plenary Session of the Upper House demanding that Congress withdraw the bill and, if the request is not met, he will raise a conflict of powers before the Constitutional Court considering that the law is “a hidden reform.” ” of the Constitution and has not been processed as such.
However, this initiative does not seem to affect either the approval or the processing schedule of the bill. At least that is what the parties in favor of the criminal oblivion rule claim, especially the PSOE, Junts and ERC.
Thus, the first vice president of Congress, the socialist Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, clarified this Wednesday that the Lower House has no obligation to attend to the institutional conflict that the Senate intends to raise: “The Senate will be able to say Mass, and we will be able to listen to it or No,” he warned in statements to the media in the halls of Congress. The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, already warned the PP in the Senate yesterday that “the last word on the amnesty law will be Congress.”
For her part, Junts spokesperson in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, today attacked the attitude of the PP but considered that her strategy will not delay the entry into force of the rule. “What I am very clear about is that there is a calendar that the Senate has made and in which the deadline for processing is May 16,” Nogueras indicated in an interview in El Món with RAC1. “If they want to continue twisting Parliament, we will have to be vigilant; but the work is done, we hope it ends in nothing and we will continue,” insisted the post-convergent spokesperson, to whom, more than a constitutional conflict, the PP initiative seems to be “the territorial chamber wants to become independent from the rule of law.”
Along the same lines, the ERC spokesperson in the Senate, Sara Bailac, yesterday criticized the “tantrum” of the Popular Party but recalled that the approach of a conflict of powers “does not paralyze” the procedure of the norm. Bailac deplored that the PP “continues to fraud the law” to “impose repression” because “it is unable to find a way to paralyze the processing of the amnesty law” in the Senate and stressed that the approach of a conflict of powers, “as Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party is doing now,” “does not paralyze the procedure” of this norm.
On behalf of Sumar, the IU parliamentary spokesperson and deputy, Enrique Santiago, has spoken out, who, in statements to RNE, has criticized the “filibustering” of the PP although he has made it clear that the conflict raised will not have any scope and that it only reflects that The popular ones are willing to “destroy everything”, being aware that they do not govern. Therefore, he has called this maneuver just “noise” and “banging” without a political basis, which simply aspires to do “harm” because citizens are “fed up” with these behaviors. Furthermore, he has urged the PP to “quickly” raise its “parliamentary filibuster” in the Senate so that, when the amnesty processing deadlines are met, Congress can definitively approve it.
