Congress’s legal services will study the Senate’s decision to veto the criminal records law. It will be the legal services of Congress that, once they have received the communication from the Senate, will prepare their report so that the Council can decide on the matter on October 22.
The PP has asserted its absolute majority in the Senate and has vetoed the legal reform that they themselves approved in Congress, which will accelerate the release of, among others, 42 prisoners of the defunct ETA organization.
The paradox of the matter is that the veto takes place without a single comma having been changed in the text, because the ‘popular’ party has also missed the deadlines for the amendments.
Given this scenario, two options are open: that after the text returns to Congress, the Council decides to vote on it again, or that the standard is published directly in the Government Gazette (BOE).
The legal services of Congress They will study the Senate’s decision to veto the criminal records law. According to parliamentary sources, the Senate must first submit its decision. It will be the legal services of Congress that, as soon as they receive the communication from the Senate, will prepare their report so that the Office of the next October 22 can decide about that.
In this sense, the PSOE spokesperson in Congress said: Patxi Lopezhas considered that the Senate did not veto the criminal records bill, but that the House of Lords “voted against it” so that it could “go directly to the BOE.”
As López explained upon his arrival at an event at the Ateneo in Madrid, what the Senate did this morning was vote “against” the law, because, as the Socialist specified, “the veto has a regulatory path that this vote has not been met.” “
“That is why for us, pending the reports or what the lawyers say, there was no veto, but it was voted against, period,” he added. In this sense, López believes that the text “could go directly to the BOE” and would not need to be voted on again in Congress.
The President of the Senate, Pedro Rollanannounced on Monday after the plenary vote against the criminal records law that he would regard the rejection by an absolute majority as a veto and would therefore send it back 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 in practice delay in final approval. .
The President of the Senate reported this interpretation of the veto on the bill after the announcement of the results of the vote, in which 148 votes againstwhich 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, which states that a rejection by an absolute majority in the plenary “must have the legal effect of a veto, as agreed at a definitive and global basis.” with the consequent return of the text to the Congress of Deputies.”
Source: EITB
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