The vice president of Political Action of VOX, Jorge Buxadé, has announced that his party will file an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court this Tuesday, with a request for extremely precautionary measures to try to paralyze the meeting of the Justice commission convened for next Thursday, March 7, in order to prevent the parliamentary processing of the amnesty law from moving forward. This is what Buxadé said in a press conference at the party headquarters in which he detailed legal and judicial measures that Voxva will carry out in the coming days to prevent the amnesty.
The appeal to the TC is filed against the decision of the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, to order the return to the Justice Commission for its opinion, against the agreement of the Congress Board to ratify said decision, and against the agreement of the table of the Justice commission to call the meeting next Thursday, March 7.
Buxadé has explained that the “very cautious” appeal is based on the fact that, if the March 7 session or the future plenary session is not suspended, the appeal would lose its legitimate purpose. The vice president of Political Action has recalled that in the appeal there is an appearance of good law, there is no danger of procedural delay and it does not disturb either general or party interests. He has also explained that Vox’s appeal in no case assesses the Amnesty law, but rather the action of the Lower House Board.
In this sense, the appeal fundamentally raises “the arbitrary, unfair and illogical interpretation” by Armengol of article 131 of the Congress Regulations. “The only possible interpretation of article 131 of the Congress Regulations is the disappearance in Spanish constitutional legal history of that proposition” due to having been voted against by an absolute majority of the Plenary, he has declared.
However, Buxadé has made it clear that this appeal for protection does not address the unconstitutionality of the amnesty law, among other things, because Vox does not trust “in a politicized Constitutional Court in the hands of Conde Pumpido” that can take advantage of this appeal to make statements regarding the constitutionality of the law.
Also, the VOX Parliamentary Group is going to register an initiative to reform the organic law of the general electoral regime to prevent those who are absconding from justice “and persecuted for the most serious crimes of terrorism, embezzlement of funds, crimes of rebellion or any other serious crime, cannot attend an electoral process and lose the right to passive suffrage.” “It is an insult to our democracy and it is an insult to millions of Spaniards who think like us that Mr. Puigdemont and those who have escaped from the Spanish justice system can run again in elections,” he denounced.
In addition, Buxadé has detailed the rest of the judicial actions that his party is already leading against the amnesty law, among them, the appearance in the Tsunami Democràtic case in the TS and the request for declaration as investigated by Carles Puigdemont and Rubén Wagenberg .
In this sense, Vox will ask the judge to apply the European Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont and the extradition of Wagengerg, since “the logic is to wait for both of them to voluntarily fail to appear,” but the data of the accusation are true, the notorious facts and the mockery and resistance to judicial authority is evident.
Buxadé explained that the group will also send letters in the next few hours to the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, as well as to the president of the Catalan Parliament.
The head of the Vox delegation in the European Parliament has also referred to the Venice Commission report on this matter. He recalled that the so-called Venice Commission is a consultative body of the Council of Europe on constitutional matters, and that its function is “to provide constitutional advice to its member states and the dissemination of a common constitutional heritage”, obviously acting as a foreign instrument of influence on the constitutional policy of sovereign States; that is, a globalist interpretation of the Law.
The VOX MEP recalled that “Law is a science naturally rooted in the history, culture, traditions and way of life of each nation, and that in Spain, like any European nation, law is the result of all those vicissitudes”, and not from the capricious decisions of ideological influence of organizations or institutional bodies.
The vice president of Political Action has added that his party rejected from the beginning “that the PP, from the presidency of the Senate and from its influence in the presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, demanded the preparation of a report” to this body . “Only a political vision of submission to international organizations such as that which characterizes the popular party can lead to such a mistake,” he said.
Buxadé has also referred to the Armengol case, who appeared in the Congress of Deputies this morning: “Ms. Armengol’s statements have been the statements of a future defendant.” “While the Spaniards were suffering, they were getting rich, they were making a lot of money at the expense of the funds of all Spaniards,” she added.
Furthermore, the person in charge of legal coordination at VOX has also made reference to the event for Women’s Day that takes place today, Tuesday, March 5, in the Congress of Deputies and which will be chaired by Armengol. “She is going to star in an event on Women’s Day when she, being president of the Balearic community, accepted, admitted and allowed the largest case of corruption and attack on the dignity of women protected by the administration itself, subjected to prostitution and to the greatest crimes against the sexual indemnity of women,” he lamented.
