Sánchez announces bill to reduce sedition fines

Date:

The crime of sedition will be rebranded as “aggravated public order”. The bill will be presented next Friday by the PSOE and United We Can.

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezannounced this Thursday the immediate presentation in Congress of a bill to replace the felony sedition with another felony of “aggravated public disorder” and with reduced sentences.

Sánchez has pointed out in an interview in La Sexta that this proposal will be presented in the registry of the House of Representatives next Friday by the socialist group and United We Can.

The chief executive defended the “brave and daring” decisions that he has adopted to ease tensions in Catalonia, and in this regard, he has justified the bill that will be introduced this Friday to homologate the penal code, he said, to the main European democracies.

The crime of sedition, which you recall, was: written in 1822will be amended and will be rebranded as “aggravated law and order”, which he sees as “a definitive step” for the modernization of these criminal types.

Sánchez has denied that this decision is a CKD requirement to approve the general budgets of the state and recalls that until now there has not been a sufficient parliamentary majority to allow the reform to go ahead.

But in recent weeks, he has said he has seen several groups show their willingness to adapt the crime of sedition.

He has assured that the amnesty requested by the independence movement will not be accepted by the Spanish government and that with this reform the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont will have to remain accountable to the Spanish judiciary.

“The crimes of 2017 are still present in the Criminal Code, not as a crime of sedition, but in a new type of crime,” he stressed.

The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragoneshas made the elimination of the crime of sedition an “essential step in the prosecution”.

“We continue to work to end the repression completely and to vote in a referendum. To resolve the political conflict and for freedom,” Aragonès emphasized.

(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/es_ES/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));

Source: EITB

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Share post:

Subscribe

Popular

More like this
Related