Sumar’s parliamentary group is going to register in the Congress of Deputies a bill to “completely repeal” the Citizen Security Law that the PP promoted in 2014 to, among other things, stop the street activism unleashed since 2011. The initiative, which is still being finalized, “represents practically 100%” the opinion agreed upon in the previous legislature by the forces of the majority of the investiture, and which later declined in the Justice commission, due to the vote against ERC and EH Bildu, because it was not used to prohibit rubber balls in police actions or hot returns.
“Spain is in a situation of democratic emergency with a right and extreme right installed in an openly authoritarian discourse that does not recognize the basic rules of democracy and that seeks to end public freedoms,” denounced the PCE deputy, Enrique Santiago, before to appeal to the PSOE and the rest of the democratic forces to undertake the modification as soon as possible.
Santiago has stated that ERC has already “expressed its interest in advancing on this path”, but has preferred to opt for “prudence” in order not to comment on the specific points that prevented the agreement in 2023.
The confederal space, as its spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, announced yesterday, wants to activate the parliamentary majority held by the investiture bloc to give content to the “full stop” that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wanted to mark after the five days that were taken to reflect on its continuity.
“The calls for democratic regeneration cannot remain personal reflections, they cannot remain feints or simulations; There is a majority to move forward and that majority must be used to democratize all norms and structures,” Errejón justified. “Be careful, majorities that are not used erode, they wear out,” he warned in statements in the Congress courtyard.
Sumar does not want to limit the debate to the ban on rubber balls or hot returns, but directly advocates “carrying out the most ambitious project possible”, a “maximum project” to “completely repeal the gag law in in order to attract the greatest number of formations and which, indirectly, could mean that the PSOE vote would be the most difficult vote to attract in light of the willingness shown months ago by the socialists to deal with hot returns in a future reform of the Law of Immigration.
Errejón assumes the difficulties that negotiation can entail but understands that “when you negotiate you have to take charge of the correlation of forces and the balances of force that exist.”
“The only thing we are not open to is continuing to make excuses and continuing to waste time. The democratic majority exists for there to be changes in Spain, what we have to do is use it,” he stated.
