The main law of the legislature, promised by the PSOE to its Catalan partners in return for support for the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez, will therefore leave the House of Commons chamber to the Senate.
The plenary session of Congress will approve the amnesty law next Thursday, against the backdrop of early elections in Catalonia and amid uncertainty over the final content of the reports requested from the General Council of the Judiciary and the Venice Commission. The rule goes to the Senate after it is amended with the changes agreed with Junts and ERC.
The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, decided this yesterday moving the elections forward to May 12 in Catalonia, after parliament annulled this year’s budget project. If the usual schedule is followed, the election campaign will start on April 26.
Immediately afterwards, the President of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, made a decision do not submit budgets for this year and now working for 2025. In addition, the leader of the Junts, Carlos Puigdemontdoes not rule out his participation in the May 12 elections, if the amnesty periods allow it.
The main law of the legislature, promised by the PSOE to its Catalan partners in return for support for the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez, will therefore leave the House of Representatives to the Senate.
The text that Congress will approve erases for twelve years all criminal, administrative and accounting responsibility of people involved in the ‘trials’ and opens the door to the return to Spain of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont.
If the initial deadlines are met, the amnesty bill would be finally approved late May or early Juneas it is expected that the maximum running time of two months process.
Although the far-right party Vox insists on asking the PP – as its leader, Santiago Abascal, did again this Wednesday in Congress – to reject the introduction of the law in the House of Lords, the popular parties do not consider this feasible because they believe that the Senate has a duty to process it.
A procedure that will take place after taking note of the reports that the Senate has requested from the General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ), and from the Venice Commission. The latter will meet this Friday to adopt its final advice on the standard.
For its part, the General Council for the Judiciary has submitted two reports that conflict with the constitutionality of the law; one of the conservative vocals Wenceslao Oleawhich says that the standard is unconstitutional and also a progressive standard Mar Cabrejas, which fits into the Magna Carta. The Council will make a decision next Thursday the 21st, although everything indicates that the first proposal, supported by the conservative majority, will go ahead.
As for the future of the standard after it has passed the Senate, once the plenary has rejected the law approving the PP amendments, it will return to the House of Commons so that Pedro Sánchez’s partners can restore the original text again and final approval. .
In this way, it will see the light of day six months after the initiative was registered by the PSOE under the emergency procedure and after tough negotiations with Junts who extended the planned time.
Source: EITB
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