This Monday, the Senate will debate the law that allows prisoners to commute sentences from abroad

The plenary session of Senate Spanish will hold the debate this Monday on the bill on the exchange of criminal records, which allows prisoners to commute sentences from abroad, after the PP postponed it last Tuesday. This reform would affect 44 prisoners of the ETA organization, who have been disbanded and missing since 2018, speeding up their release.

Of 143 votes in favor, With 100 votes against and 1 abstention, the full Senate decided last Tuesday to remove from the agenda this law, which was unanimously approved in Congress and which has reached the final stage without any group submitting any amendments.

As EFE reports based on parliamentary sources, the debate in the Senate will finally take place on Monday, October 14, in an extraordinary plenary session.

The legal reform passed the parliamentary process without any amendments being included in the Senate, so although the majority of senators vote against it, the law will come into effect.

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, last month the Congressional Justice Commission, with the support of PP and Vox, approved a Sumar amendment to the law on the exchange of criminal records information to eliminate this exception and prevent these Basque prisoners from deducting the sentence. they served in France.

Last Monday the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) warned that this change in the law will allow almost fifty ETA prisoners to leave prison earlier, after which PP and Vox withdrew, assuring that it was a mistake.