The President of the Venice Commission, Marta Cartabia, and the Director of the European Commission for the Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights and Democracy, Julien Mousnier, will participate, among others.
The United States Commission on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs European parliament This Thursday, a debate will be held on the amnesty law, which was approved last March by the plenary of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. It will be the last meeting of this committee in the current term, before the last plenary session in Strasbourg from 22 to 25 April and the European elections from 6 to 9 June.
The President of the Venice Commission, Marta Cartabia, and the European Commission Director for the Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights and Democracy, Julien Mousnier, will take part in the debate, the first scheduled item of a session tomorrow. There is currently no representative of the Spanish government on the agenda.
The European Commission has said it will only decide whether the contents of the amnesty law conflict with European law after its processing in the Spanish state has been fully completed.
The plenary session of Congress passed the amnesty law in March, doing so with the absolute majority required (set at 176 votes). Unlike the first vote in January, the Junts united their votes with those of the PSOE and its investiture partners, and the text received 178 votes in favor.
The approved text erases for twelve years all criminal, administrative and accounting responsibility of people involved in the ‘trials’ and opens the door to the return to the Spanish state of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont.
Source: EITB
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