After his amendments were rejected, the deputies of Puigdemont’s party voted against the entire law, and therefore the text fell (absolute majority was required). The rule will be returned to the Justice Committee, which will have to negotiate a new text.
Together voted “no” in the general vote on the vote Amnesty Act which the achievement of the 176 votes needed before it can be adopted by the plenary and will have to be sent back to the Justice Committee.
The vote had an end result of 179 votes against (PP, Vox, UPN, CC and Junts), 171 votes in favor (PSOE and its investiture partners except Junts) and no abstentions.
With this result the default should return to the Justice Commissionthose within the maximum period of one month will have to issue a new proposal opinion. However, this term could be shortened up to 15 days before following the emergency procedure in the House of Representatives. The decision must be adopted by the Congress Council between today and tomorrow.
The Junts’ representatives had supported the rule in the previous vote, that of the committee’s advice. The adoption of this text, despite the outcome of the general vote, allows the standard to be renegotiated in the Justice Committee.
There isn’t much precedent for this situation and Congress needs to clarify which amendments Of those presented in January, they will continue to be defended in committee (new ones cannot be presented). However, it will always be the case ability to agree on transaction changes that, unlike what happens during the plenary session of Congress, its vote does not require the approval of all other groups.
Negotiations until the last minute
Previously, the PSOE rejected the amendments submitted by Junts and Esquerra Republicana (ERC) to the amnesty law, which were still in force. So the socialist initiative has continued the processing, just as it came out of the Justice Committee last week.
Junts and PSOE assure that they stopped the talks only at the beginning of the plenary session. The Catalans want all crimes of terrorism and also treason to be protected, given the actions of the judges investigating the crime. processes. The Socialists claim that these changes would bring their constitutional fit under control.
Bolaños: ‘It is absolutely incomprehensible that Junts voted against’
In a brief appearance outside the Chamber, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes described the negative vote of Puigdemont’s party as “absolutely incomprehensible”, and asked him to “reconsider your position”. He has defended that the text voted on today is “constitutionally irreproachable” and that it will continue to enjoy “maximum legal certainty” from now on.
He has insisted that the Spanish government “will continue to work” to open “a new phase” in Catalonia and return “to politics what should never have left politics”. In that sense he has promised a ‘dialogue’.
Finally, the minister wanted to show his “absolute rejection against the statements of some deputies the Spanish judiciary. Bolaños has referred to the criticism of Junts, Sumar, Podemos and EH Bildu that the judges of the processesin some cases with first and last names (notably the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating the Tsunami case, and the head of Investigative Court Number 1 of Barcelona, Joaquín Aguirre, who is investigating the case Volhov case).
Source: EITB
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