The PP has taken the political agenda into account when processing the veto of the Senate, where it has an absolute majority, to the Amnesty law sent from Congress and has set for the plenary session on the 14th, which was not initially planned in the calendar. of sessions and the eve of San Isidro – a holiday in Madrid -, the absolute rejection and without amendments to the text, which will return to the Lower House about to expire the two-month period, on May 16, that the popular ones extended to lengthen the times.
Thus, in Congress the date of May 23 – still to be confirmed in the meeting of spokespersons – is being handled for the definitive ratification of the Amnesty law, which will coincide with the beginning of the European campaign on June 9 and with the preparation of the demonstration against the Government of Pedro Sánchez that the PP has called in Madrid for Sunday, May 26 and which has been announced today from Genoa.
ERC and Junts had requested that, given that the text of the law had not received amendments but the double veto of PP and Vox, the meeting of the presentation be held jointly with that of the mixed Constitutional and Justice commission, but the popular group has postponed the second appointment until Thursday, so that in the plenary session of this Wednesday, the 8th, it would not be possible to finalize the process in the Senate, which will therefore conclude a week later, after the Catalan elections.
At the end of the presentation meeting, which barely lasted twenty minutes, the PP spokesperson, Antonio Silván, congratulated himself on the result: “As there was no partial amendment to the Amnesty law, the presentation took the agreement to bring together all the members of the commission next Thursday and defer the vote until the plenary session on the 14th,” said the senator, who has denied that the popular group had the electoral calendar in mind to make its decisions: ” In no way have we followed an approach in accordance with a procedure established at the beginning of the constitution of the commission.”
For his part, the PSOE spokesperson, Txema Oleaga, has pointed out that today’s meeting has been a “waste of time”, because there being no amendments “it made no sense”, from his point of view, to bring together the presentation. But the PP wanted to “stretch the gum until the 16th,” he has criticized. The socialist senator has also rejected the lawyer’s report that has been attached to the presentation and has explained that all the experts who have appeared, “even some proposed by the PP itself”, and also the Venice Commission defend the full constitutionality of the amnesties , a “laudable objective.”
“Today we have witnessed a kind of commedia dell’arte, but a provincial comedy,” lamented Republican senator Joan Josep Queralt, who has attacked the PP’s “roller” in the Senate. “Having presented two vetoes prevents the discussion of the law in a calm manner and, furthermore, the reports have been presented when the deadline for the amendments had already passed, what are they for then?” he asked. “None of those appearing has admitted that the rule of law was broken,” he assessed, when what the PP intended, in his opinion, was to show that the amnesty was the “anteroom to hell.”
Senator Josep Lluís Cleries, from Junts, has criticized that the PP considers the Senate its “private farm” and has defended that the appropriate thing would have been to bring together the presentation and the commission on the same day: “We have come to greet each other, which is always nice , but we’ll see each other and there’s no need,” he joked about the short duration of a mere procedure such as the approval of the veto without debating any amendment. “The report of the commission’s lawyer does not meet the legal parameters of either the state or the European Union,” Cleries also denounced, accusing the PP of “putting pressure on and putting the neutrality of the Chamber’s legal services to the limit.”