A proposal for constitutional rearmament with the aim of strengthening the State and democracy in the face of concessions to independence. This is the thesis that inspires, as announced by Miguel Tellado, the amendment in its entirety with an alternative text registered yesterday afternoon in Congress by the PP, which will be debated, without appearances that it can go ahead, in the extraordinary plenary session of the week next.
Hours before it was officially formalized, the parliamentary spokesman of the first opposition party detailed the main lines of this approach, which has its most innovative aspect in the creation of a new “crime of constitutional disloyalty” in the Penal Code controversial, given that it would mean redefining the rules of the Spanish political system, based on freedom of expression and thought.
If approved by the Courts, this new type of penalty would make it possible to punish “non-observance” or “breach” of the laws by “organizations or legal persons”, that is to say, political formations that promote “illegal consultations” such as the one held in Catalonia on October 1, 2017, the legal consequences of which, six years later, try to leave behind an amnesty law that the PP considers, without pal· liatives, a “law of impunity”.
Specifically, Tellado brought up the “dissolution” – he did not speak of illegalization, like the extreme right, but the result seems quite equivalent – of associations or parties with purposes that are contrary to the constitutional order and harm “the unity” of Spain, which supposes a militant interpretation not provided for in the Magna Carta, in the face of “the attacks of the pro-independence parties”, which count, as the spokesman said, with the “complicity” of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
It is necessary to “protect” the State from those who want to “weaken it”, reiterated Tellado to argue for the reinstatement of crimes that “should never have disappeared”, such as that of sedition, and others that were modified, such as that of embezzlement, and, likewise, the attempt to “slow down and block” the amnesty, which implies, in his opinion, the “erasing” of causes related to “corruption and terrorism” and “leaves the free hands” to the pro-independence parties “to do it again, as they have warned”.
So, and apart from the current parliamentary arithmetic, by the PP, the amendment to the amnesty law presented yesterday is “the starting point of a political, social and legal activity to rearm and strengthen the State of right” after the PSOE has assumed, “in exchange for a handful of votes”, the “fallacious story” of independence, which “rewrites the recent history of Spain”.
In this sense, Tellado accused Sánchez of lying when he says that he is looking for the recovery of “coexistence” in Catalonia, since what is involved, according to him, is to benefit a “privileged class” at the expense of the judiciary, which sees questioned its independence.
“It is a law that shames many socialists and the majority of Spanish democrats”, said the popular leader, for whom the amnesty is not only “illegal”, but also breaks the constitutional equality between citizens and is another step in “the strategy of degrading the democratic institutions to which Sánchez is condemning Spain, the result of his tacit agreement with the pro-independence parties in exchange for making him president”.
