This veto means a delay in the final passage of the criminal records law that allows several ETA members to commute prison sentences in other countries.
The President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, announced on Monday, after the plenary vote against the criminal records law that allows several members of ETA to commute prison sentences in other countries, that he understands this rejection by an absolute majority as a veto and therefore returns it to Congress.
Although it was initially expected that the rule would come into force after all previous parliamentary procedures had been completed, making Monday’s vote a priori irrelevant, Rollán’s interpretation, supported by a report from the Chamber’s lawyers, will delay the mean final approval.
The President of the Senate announced this interpretation of the veto of the bill after the announcement of the result of the vote, with 148 votes against, which amounts to a rejection by an absolute majority, 111 votes in favor and two abstentions.
Rollán based this position on a report from the General Secretariat of the Senate, dated last Friday and to which EFE has had access, which states that a rejection by an absolute majority in the plenary “must have the legal effect of a veto , because agreement has been reached on a final and global basis, with the consequent return of the text to the Congress of Deputies”.
Source: EITB
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