This Tuesday, the different parliamentary groups in Congress rejected the consideration of a bill put forward by Vox to, among other things, outlaw pro-independence parties. Including the PP, which, as its deputy Manuel Cobo has advanced, has chosen to vote against because “illegalizing” these formations for “the mere fact of being so” goes against the Constitution and the doctrine of the Constitutional Court.

In this way, the formation chaired by Alberto Núñez Feijóo has gone, in just a month and a half, from proposing the dissolution of pro-independence parties through its amendment to the Amnesty law to voting against the bill proposed by Vox for this purpose. . A controversy that, 48 hours later, was neutralized from Genoa, clarifying that it was only proposed to dissolve parties if they “commit illegal acts”, but not because of their “ideas”.

The Vox deputy Carlos Flores Juberías has been in charge of defending an initiative that also seeks to punish the use of separatist symbols, prohibit referendums with purposes contrary to the unity of the country, recover the crime of sedition and increase the punishment for contacts with powers foreigners to harm Spain.

The pro-independence groups have agreed to emphasize to Vox that it has already been demonstrated that the illegalization of parties, far from destroying their voters, causes just the opposite effect.

In this context, Bildu deputy Marije Fullaondo, who was a leader of the banned Batasuna, has given as an example what happened with her previous organization: “They will never be able to make the independence movement disappear. Ideas and feelings cannot be imprisoned. They tried put an end to us, they outlawed us, they beat us and we fell, but we got up, we came out stronger and we have not stopped growing,” he emphasized.

Francesc-Marc Álvaro, from ERC, has expressed himself along the same lines, who has disfigured Vox for defending “occurrences” to return to “a world before the Transition” and has slipped that, if the initiative is approved, perhaps its “first “victims” would be the members of Santiago Abascal’s formation. “People vote, we cannot be eliminated from the map, we cannot be destroyed with a law,” he added.

“This is déjà vu,” complained, for his part, the PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, who has summarized his group’s position regarding Vox’s proposal with a “resounding no.” No Junts deputy has intervened in the debate.

Both Sumar and the PSOE and the PP have criticized Vox for proposing a text contrary to the spirit of the Constitution and constitutional jurisprudence because, among other things, its application would end political pluralism. They have also criticized him for making an “interested reading” of the Magna Carta, ignoring those aspects that he does not like.

“There are no prisons for everything they don’t like, at least in democracy,” commented Sumar’s deputy spokesperson, Aína Vidal, for whom Vox’s “concept of the nation” “overrides the law.” “For you, the nation is your faith and your wallet,” she stressed.

“Their idea of ??Spain is monolithic, the image they have must be a concentration in the Plaza de Oriente and they forget about the Spaniards,” said the socialist Alejandro Soler, who has agreed with Cobo in reproaching Vox for being left alone with the “unity of Spain” that enshrines the while ignoring “the right to autonomy of the nationalities and regions that comprise it and the solidarity between all of them.”

Although he has recognized that the PP does share with Vox “the substance” of proposals such as recovering the crimes of sedition and embezzlement and calling for illegal referendums, Cobo has advanced his vote against the initiative.