Although this move will delay the vote on the reform and buy time, it will not be able to paralyze its eventual adoption. The popular parties have demanded that the Spanish government withdraw this bill, as it is the only actor currently with the power to veto it.
He People’s Party will remove this Tuesday from the agenda of the plenary meeting of the Senate The Spanish draft law on the exchange of criminal records information could benefit from this 44 prisoners of the ETA organization, which has been disbanded and missing since 2018, which will delay, but not prevent, its approval.
The popular parties, the majority in the House of Representatives, thus gain time by waiting for the executive to decide whether to maintain or withdraw the text, as PP and Vox have demanded, because this is the only way to prevent the reform from continuing as it should. was unanimously approved in Congress. Both parties admit it was a mistake that they are now trying to correct in the Senate. But if the government does not withdraw the project, it will inevitably be approved sooner or later.
The legal reform has its origins in a European directive. In concrete terms, Europe has established that the same sentence cannot be served in two countries, although the government of Mariano Rajoy approved a provision in 2014 to circumvent this criterion for ETA prisoners.
For example, the Congressional Justice Commission, with the support of right-wing parties, approved a Sumar amendment to the Criminal Records Exchange Act to eliminate this exception and prevent these Basque prisoners from being convicted for having served in France.
This Monday is the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) has warned that this change in the law will allow almost half a hundred ETA prisoners to leave prison earlier, after which PP and Vox have withdrawn.
Source: EITB
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