The Board of the Congress of Deputies approved, this Tuesday, to enable the month of January to expedite the processing of the amnesty law, validate Government decrees, approve the stability objectives and for ministers to appear.
Thus, the full debate on the amendments to the amnesty law will take place during the extra month authorized outside the ordinary period, since, according to the regulations of Congress, the Chamber can hold extraordinary sessions at the request of the Government, the Permanent Deputation or the absolute majority of the members of Congress.
In any case, the session will not be held in the Congress of Deputies but in the Senate, since the chamber will be under construction during those dates to renew the computer system of the seats. The president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, has already accepted the request of the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, to move the plenary sessions of the lower house to the chamber of the upper house.
Likewise, the socialist group has revealed that the bill will be processed in the Justice Commission of Congress chaired by the Murcian socialist Francisco Lucas Ayala, instead of going through the Constitutional Commission chaired by José Zaragoza, of the PSC.
Parliamentary sources have indicated the week of January 8 to hold the first plenary session, which the PP spokesperson in the Chamber, Miguel Tellado, has described as an attempt by the socialists so that “everything is perfectly covered with the Christmas holidays” and the resulting “disconnection of citizens with current politics”.
The Law has already passed its first passage through Congress after having the support of the PSOE, Sumar and the Basque independence and nationalist parties, with votes against from PP, Vox, CC and UPN. This opens the door to the current amendment period before sending the law to the Justice Commission.
