The Congress Board has agreed to reject for processing all the amendments to the reform of article 49 of the Spanish Constitution presented.
The governing body, meeting this Wednesday, argued that none of them complied with the reform of the specific article – agreed to eliminate the diminished term – so that the plenary session for final approval of the new text will begin tomorrow at 12:00 in the Senate. , as an alternative venue for the works underway in Congress, through a vote that will be carried out by call.
The PNV wanted to take advantage of the reform to try to introduce “profound” changes in the Magna Carta and, among other things, include the right to self-determination of “nations” and eliminate article 155 that allows autonomous governments to intervene. In total, the nationalist party presented 11 amendments. Two of them to “recognize and guarantee the right to decide” of Basque citizens, conditioning its exercise to an agreement with the State.
Similarly, Compromís presented an amendment to include the recovery of Valencian civil law that has the total consensus of the parliamentary forces in the Valencian Cortes, including PP and PSOE. And the deputy of Més en Sumar, Vicenç, did the same to include in the Magna Carta a senator for the island of Formentera.
All parliamentary groups of the Congress of Deputies, with the exception of Vox, yesterday supported the taking into consideration of the bill presented by PSOE and PP to reform article 49 of the Constitution, referring to people with disabilities.
Approved with 315 votes in favor and 33 abstentions, the Lower House endorsed the processing of a new text that establishes, among other points, the replacement of the term “disabled” with the expression “people with disabilities”, as well as the obligation of public powers to “carry out the necessary policies to guarantee full personal autonomy and social inclusion” of the group, and special attention to minors and women with disabilities. Reason, the latter argued by Vox for his abstention.
In this sense, the Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, and the president of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI), Luis Cayo Pérez Bueno, have called for the reform to go ahead by “unanimity”. “It is unjustifiable that this great consensus of the country does not have the unanimous support of the chamber, it cannot be that while Spain advances there are those who insist on staying still or looking back,” said the minister.
