This law was initially unanimously approved in the Congress of Deputies and lost the support of PP and Vox in the Senate. That is why it was rejected by the Plenary Assembly of the Senate last Monday.
Last Saturday, the Government Gazette (BOE) published the criminal records law that offers ETA prisoners the opportunity to commute sentences served in Europe. This law will come into effect within twenty days.
This law was initially unanimously approved in the Congress of Deputies and only in the final parliamentary phase in the Senate, after a complaint from the AVT complaining that the validation of sentences also affected ETA prisoners, the law lost the support of PP and Vox and was rejected by the plenary meeting of the Senate Last Monday October 14th.
The Senate, with the absolute majority of the PP and a report from the General Secretariat, interpreted that this rejection by absolute majority in the final vote should be interpreted as a veto, despite the fact that no group had previously passed the corresponding full amendment submitted.
According to lawyers for Congress, a rejection by an absolute majority (PP, Vox and UPN) does not constitute a veto, because it implies after previously submitting a full amendmentsomething that no one in the Senate registered. The Congressional Board has said it is responsible for respecting regulated procedures and that it considers the law validated.
This interpretation differs of that carried out by the legal services of the Senateand in which the President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, took refuge. The House of Lords’ lawyers maintained that if the majority of the House of Lords plenary rejects a text, even if it has not been amended through amendments, it should be vetoed and sent back to Congress so that, with a Met an absolute majority can approve or ratify it.
After an oral report from the lawyers, the Congress Council, the majority of which is formed by PSOE and Sumar, decided to approve this law and send it to the government, ignoring the Senate’s claim and emphasizing that the House of Lords has met all deadlines skipped vetoing the rule.
Thus, the first vice president of Congress and deputy to the PSOEAlfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis accused the Popular Party of using a “trick” in the Senate that the Congressional Committee cannot pass.
Meanwhile, Vox has announced that it will appeal to the Constitutional Court, according to sources from Santiago Abascal’s formation.
Source: EITB
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