However, there is no mutual agreement on the deadlines for releasing documents. This is a bill that the PNV has brought back. The Spanish government approved a preliminary draft in 2022, which was ultimately dropped due to the early calling of elections.
The PSOE and its partners today supported in Congress an initiative to once again promote a reform of the state secrets law, branded by Sumar, minority and independence groups a Francoist loopholebut no mutual agreement has been reached on the deadlines for releasing documents, one of the most controversial points.
This is a bill that the PNV has brought back to the House of Representatives, rejected by PP and Vox pending the vote, which encourages the adoption of a new standard that replaces that of 1968 and that shortens the declassification periods of 25 years for top officials . secret documents and ten for reserved documents.
He The Spanish government passed a draft law on state secrets in 2022which eventually declined as a result of the early calling of elections and causing the PSOE position on declassification: “top secret” documents would be classified for 50 years with an extension of another fifteen years, documents classified as “secret” for forty years and an extension of another ten years, “confidential” between seven and ten years and “limited” between 4 and 6.
The PNV deputy Mikel Legarda filed the complaint coverage of state secrets and the imbalance of the law with regard to the Constitution, the right to information and transparency of state institutions.
He has indicated that he has done so doubts that the Spanish government really wants to reform state secrets and has defined Vox, which defends the current law, as a party comfortable with Franco norms.
By AddEnrique Santiago has said that he does not consider the protection and security of the State possible if access to and the right to the truth are not guaranteed, and has emphasized that the most important thing would be to set reasonable deadlines for the documents, which civil servants are classified the service of the regime, see the public light.
EH Bildu, ERC and Junts They have regretted that the reform was previously blocked in parliament because of the PSOE anachronism which, in their opinion, is permeating the Spanish institutions and they have accused the PSOE of this unwillingness for major renovations.
Source: EITB
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