“This is not a conflict between partners”, they categorically rule out in Moncloa before the failure of the reform of the citizen security law of the Popular Party, the so-called ‘gag law’, whose responsibility they attribute exclusively to the contrary vote of Esquerra Republicana and EH Bildu, groups that together with the PP, Vox, Ciudadanos or Junts have knocked down the initiative promoted by the PNV and that the PSOE and Unidas Podemos have voted in favour. The purple formation “has voted in favour”, highlight socialist sources from the Executive, and therefore ensure that “it is not a problem between the coalition partners”. It is not a new internal clash between the two, they warn, as happened with the reform of the law of only yes is yes.
This has been underlined by the government spokesperson, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez, at the end of the Council of Ministers. “This is a bill that the PNV presented in Congress and that, indeed, the groups that make up the government coalition, both the socialist group and that of Unidas Podemos, have supported. And, therefore, thus fulfilling a commitment to the citizenry. We have supported this initiative of the PNV to be able to repeal what is known as the gag law of the PP”, the minister spokesperson wanted to put in context.
“It must be made absolutely clear that the two parties of the coalition have supported this reform, reforming 40 of the 54 articles of this regulation”, underlined Isabel Rodríguez. But the spokeswoman has warned that in today’s vote in Congress, “among others the ERC and Bildu groups have prevented this reform from going ahead and, therefore, that the PP gag law remains in force today.” “They will know what their explanations are or what their responsibilities are,” she pointed out. “But this repeal would have been desirable. It is a pity that a law that was also expected by the citizens has not been able to go ahead ”, she lamented.
“Because of the votes of ERC and Bildu, the gag law of the PP will continue to be in force, and this no longer has a solution,” they criticize in Moncloa. “We have fulfilled our commitment and the government agreement with United We Can”, they defend. And they attribute to ERC and EH Bildu that the repeal of the gag law has finally been frustrated.
