The Parliament’s general policy debate will be interrupted for two days due to the trial of deputy Eulàlia Reguant in the Supreme Court for the crime of serious disobedience to authority for having refused to answer Vox as a private accusation when she appeared as a witness in the process judgment.
As reported by parliamentary sources, the general policy debate will begin on September 27 and will stop on the 28th and 29th to resume on the 30th, when it will end with the debate and vote on the resolution proposals.
Reguant will have to go to Madrid for an oral hearing for which the Supreme Court is the second time it has set a date, after the first one had to be suspended due to a procedural “error”.
The agreement of the Table for the ordering of the general policy debate that will take place in Parliament, the first of the current legislature, has the approval of the Government, which will have to make adjustments to the calendar for it. Thus, the Government will have to move the usual Tuesday meeting of the Consell Executiu because it coincides with the first day of the plenary session.
From the parliamentary groups, the PSC has been the one who has raised its voice against this decision. According to the spokeswoman for the PSC-Units parliamentary group, Alícia Romero, it is “incredible” that the debate has to be interrupted for two days because there is a deputy who has a trial. “With all the love” towards Reguant, Romero has lamented that situations like this are normalized in the Parliament, “which are not normal” and has attributed the maneuver to the will of the pro-independence parties to champion the cause against the deputy of the CUP.
For Romero, the most surprising thing is that the Government has lent itself to this situation and has given as an example “what would happen if the debate on the state of the nation was suspended for two days because a deputy has a trial. It would be front page in all the newspapers and the laughing stock of Europe, but here, this will not be front page”, he has compared.
