The latest attempt to include in the Constitution the recovery of Valencian civil law, taking advantage of the reform of article 49 of the Magna Carta, has come face to face with the political refusal of the two major parties. The Senate Board agreed this Wednesday – as happened a few days ago during the processing in Congress – not to admit any amendment to the constitutional reform proposal. The claim, promoted by the Juristes Valencians association and which has a great consensus among the Valencian political class at all levels, has seen its last opportunity to recover this right that other Spanish autonomies enjoy.
According to EFE, after its qualification by the Board, meeting early this Wednesday, the constitutional reform proposal will be ruled this afternoon by the Constitutional Commission and, predictably, will be approved by a large majority tomorrow, Thursday, by the Plenary, and It will come into force fifteen days later, unless ten percent of the senators request a referendum.
Along these lines, the first vice president of the Senate, Javier Maroto, has explained to EFE that the lawyers have indicated to the Board that amendments that do not refer to the article of the Constitution that is the object of the reform cannot be admitted.
The same arguments that were already used in the Lower House and that led to the Compromís protests that have tried, via amendments, to open the debate.
In this way, the possibility of including in the constitutional reform the recovery of the right that was annulled by the appeal that the Zapatero Government to the Constitutional Court – which the subsequent Executive of Mariano Rajoy maintained – and which, after the ruling of the High Court, , annulled the Valencian laws that developed practical applications of this right in matters of inheritance or marital unions.
It should be noted that there are other autonomies – Catalonia, Aragon, Navarra, Galicia, the Basque Country and the Balearic Islands – that do enjoy this right since their own laws already included it previously.
