The PSOE and its parliamentary allies need an absolute majority (at least 176 deputies) in Congress to override the Senate’s veto: there are no errors or absences. If there are no surprises, the rule could be in the BOE on Friday or Saturday before it goes into effect.
The Congress of Deputies will organize the debate from 9:00 am final parliamentary vote on the amnesty law, in which an absolute majority (at least 176 deputies) is needed to override the Senate’s veto. If there are no surprises, the norm can be set in the Official Government Gazette (BOE) on the Friday or Saturday before its entry into force.
The vote will take place after it was learned this week that all Spanish judges passed an a guide against amnesty drawn up by the Civic Platform for Judicial Independence, which offers two forms to submit questions of unconstitutionality or prejudicial matters to the Constitutional Court (TC) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which affects the application of the law would force be paralyzed.
The ‘Organic Law of Amnesty for Institutional, Political and Social Normalization in Catalonia’ emerged from the pacts that the PSOE concluded with the ERC and the Junts in exchange for the support of the independentistas for the inauguration of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez. .
The aim is to grant amnesty to all those involved in sovereigntist and independence mobilizations from November 1, 2011, when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s PSOE was still in power, until November 13, 2023.
It includes both those convicted of the 9 November 2014 consultation and that of the 2017 referendum, as well as the archive of the investigations opened by the subsequent riots against the Supreme Court ruling.
The bill was registered only by the Socialist Group November 13 last year and although it has been formally dealt with through the emergency procedure, it will not see the light of day until more than six months later.
If there are no last-minute surprises, this will be the second law to be approved by the House since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez’s government last December, in addition to the constitutional reform to abolish the shortened term of the Magna Carta.
Monographic session
Two weeks ago, the Full Senate vetoed the bill and sent it back to Congress without changes. The plenary session of Congress will debate it again this Thursday in a monographic session, during which the spokespersons of the groups will have seven minutes to intervene and they will do it from smallest to largest.
It is not common for the Spanish government to participate in debates on laws coming out of the Senate, although that possibility is always present as the Rules allow members of the executive branch to intervene whenever they wish.
In addition, The PP has requested a nominal voteThat is, each of your honorable deputies must say out loud the meaning of their vote, something they have also done on the four previous occasions when this standard passed through the plenary before being sent to the Senate. To override the Senate’s veto, the government needs an absolute majority, a minimum of 175 votes. Given that the PP, Vox, UPN and CC have 172 votes against, the PSOE and its allies cannot afford any mistakes or absences.
Both the leader of ERC, Oriol Junquerasas Secretary General of Junts, Jordi Turulboth convicted by the Supreme Court and later pardoned, will go to the plenary session of Congress this Thursday to attend this final parliamentary debate.
The two leaders of the independence groups will watch the debate from the chamber’s guest gallery. Junqueras will also be accompanied by the former president of the Catalan parliament Carme Forcadell (also convicted in the context of the trial ordered by the Supreme Court); ERC spokesperson and deputy general secretary, Marta Vilaltaand the acting vice-president of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagraamong other things.
Source: EITB
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