The fight that United We Can launched six months ago against the president of the House of Representatives, Marxel Batette, whose resignation he demanded, came after the repeal of the Alberto Act, a former member of the Confederate group. Rodriguez became chronic. In virtually every public intervention, when asked about the case of a former parliamentarian convicted of beating a police officer by the Supreme Court, the leaders of “United We Can” attack the head of the lower house, who is only responsible for expulsion. In addition, these officials take advantage of any political differences to question the work of the state’s third government.
Last week in Congress, United We Can spokesman Pablo Echenick accused Batet of maneuvering to avoid discussing a group initiative filed with the ERC and EH Bildu seeking plenary support for a self-determination referendum. Western Sahara. The proposal was made after the Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, introduced in mid-March on relations between Spain and Morocco, recognizing the autonomous framework maintained by the neighboring country. The minority partner in the executive branch not only does not share this view, but also believes that Batet exceeds its institutional profile and tries to defend the socialist position from the presidency of the Congress.
Controversy erupted last Tuesday when, in the usual round of group press conferences, Echenik criticized Batet for not convening the congressional table for the day as usual. The table is the supreme governing body of the lower house and is responsible for qualifying all initiatives that have been submitted for reconsideration before being submitted to the Press Council for inclusion in plenary sessions or on the agenda. Commissions. United we can get the speaker to go so far as to assure that Batet did not hold a table on Tuesday not to approve this initiative on the Sahara and that he would not go to the plenary session this week as the Confederate group wanted.
The reason for not convening the said parliamentary body, in fact, was that the President of the Congress was on an official visit to Slovenia. All the groups knew about Batet’s commitment from the previous week, and as the president’s team explained, none – not the only one we can – objected to postponing the table to another day, as it finally happened: it was held on Wednesday. After full. But Echenik considered that there were other reasons as well.
“We suspect that this may be related to the postponement of the debate on the Sahara,” said a spokesman for the Confederate group, who described the situation as “irregular” and “unheard of”. United we can hand over the issue to the Council of Speakers, which had no objection to the unanimous proposal on the Sahara being unanimously withdrawn by the groups this week. A day later, on Wednesday, the council qualified the initiative, and on the Batet team they expressed deep discomfort over the suspicions raised by Echenik that their defense was unfounded.
Last week was the last clash between United We Can and the president of Congress, adding to the long history of clashes that began with the ouster of Alberto Rodriguez six months ago.
Rodriguez’s advocacy strategy, in fact, continues to discredit Batet’s actions, which ultimately led to the suspension of his MP mandate on 22 October. In an appeal to the Constitutional Court, the former lawmaker accused the congressional president of leaving him out of place. A place that United We Can has not yet been able to change due to disagreements between the state leadership of Podemos and the Canary Islands, from which he is a former MP.
At the end of last year, an interpretation of the sentence that the “United We Can” former MP was sentenced to 45 days in prison. The policeman has caused deep political and legal debates at the protest rally in 2014. Lawyers of all sensitivities questioned not only the sentence, which had several individual votes, and relied heavily on the agent’s testimony and medical reports; But also its consequences.
Congressional lawyers were initially convinced in an Oct. 18 report that Rodriguez could retain his seat, given that the deprivation of the passive right dictated by the Supreme Court in the sentence would not affect the position of the MP who acquired the advance. However, two days later, the Supreme Court issued an ambiguous conclusion requesting a stay. In the meantime, Rodriguez’s case has become a stepping stone in a political battle that has erupted over two tense meetings between the House’s governing body, Messa. While the right-wing minority in PP and Vox defended that the former Podemos leader should be suspended, a majority of the PSOE and United We Can demanded his permanence based on this letter from lawyers.
It was the second session of the lower house of the lower house to hear the case, on October 21, where the President of Congress was more in favor of withdrawing the protocol, both as a result of the Supreme Court and the exercise of rights. . But given the doubts expressed by lawyers, Batet facilitated the vote, during which a majority of the PSOE and United We Can agreed to a request for further clarification from the Supreme Court. On Friday, the 22nd, and after receiving another letter from the Supreme Court reminding him that Rodriguez had been sentenced to imprisonment and disqualification for passive voting and after consulting with the Secretary-General of Congress and his senior lawyer, Batet decided to leave the post.
The same night, United We Can sent a brief statement to the press announcing that it would take legal action against the betrothal. This statement of appeal led to an internal rift in the confederate formation as the second vice-president and Minister of Labor Yolanda Dias and the Minister of Consumer Alberto Garzon and even Rodriguez themselves were unaware of the decision. Today decided to cancel the Podemos subscription and start their own legal battle to get the place back.
A senior congressional lawyer has backed Batet’s decision in writing to suspend the former MP from Confederate formation, but criticism from all but the PSOE of the lower house president has grown, and Podemos has formally demanded his resignation. The president’s entourage clarified that in everything related to Rodriguez’s convict, he maintains an “institutional position”, follows “procedures quickly” and always listens to the Chamber’s legal services, as well as that Rodriguez’s case is a “strictly technical legal issue”. And “is not a problem of a political nature.”
They do not see this from United We Can. Echenik reiterates that in reality “the elected MP was robbed of his sentence, first of all, unjustly and without evidence, because he has never committed the crime he is said to have committed and, moreover, did not suggest that the record be removed.” “However, the presidency of the Congress of Deputies and B. [presidente de la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo, Manuel] Marchena decided to take her place. “This is very serious,” he said in an interview with elDiario.es last month.
“The responsibility for the lack of a seat and the fact that, for example, labor reform went wrong because a PP MP made a mistake belongs to Meritxell Batet and Marchena, not to United We Can. We humbly work to give it a try. “This place is going to recover, but at the same time, we have not forgotten who took it from the progressive majority,” said United We Can, a spokeswoman for the group, which was left without a decision two weeks ago. Another Canary MP, Mary Pita, was transferred to the mixed group due to non-compliance with management.
Congressional President Marx Batet and United We Can will again clash in December over two Vox lawmakers trying to boycott the Zaragoza Six, which was held in the lower house at the time, against six militants. – Fascists convicted of participating in a protest rally in 2019.
“United We Can” demanded sanctions against the two lawmakers who sang the police anthem during the above-mentioned act organized by the Confederate group and pro-independence formations, but Batet insisted he had no instruments in congressional regulations. Will be able to implement these sanctions .. Parliamentary sources confirmed at the time that Batet had clarified that “actions that involve interference in the acts mentioned in Congress, such as the termination of the Act of the last 15 days, are inadmissible and inadmissible.” And he demanded that the members of the table promote mutual respect and institutional decisions. For United We Can’s spokesman, Pablo Echenike, Batet put the “extreme right side”.
A month earlier, in November, United We Can filed another complaint – which was also unresolved – at a table of MPs over a tweet posted by the Secretary-General of the Vox parliamentary group, Macarena Olona. Which, according to the Confederate group, bypassing the lower house’s internal rules, included a photo of newspaper members to reform a citizen’s safety law, known as the ‘law of madness’, which he called “Agreement“.
The Confederate group considers that the publication violates the Rules of Procedure of the Congress, which in its Article 16 stipulates that “Deputies are obliged to comply with their conduct and to maintain order, courtesy and parliamentary discipline, as well as not to disclose actions that Have the character of secrets.
However, United We Can asked the Congressional Bureau to take “the disciplinary action provided for in Article 99.1 of the Rules of Procedure and, if necessary, propose that the plenary of the Congress take the action provided for in Rule 101 of the Rules of Procedure. “Everything about violating the secrecy of Article 16 of the Rules of Procedure and the prohibition of unauthorized graphic reproduction of Rule 98 of the Rules of Procedure.” Which once again intensified the Confederate group’s struggle against the President of Congress.
From the start of the legislature, the protection of the Constitution by pro-independence MPs and the United We can, who have used the alternative formulas of the traditional “Yes, I promise” or “Yes, I swear” to express their supporters of independence or the Republic. The wishes were not to the liking of the lower house presidency either, though he accepted them in the same way as other presidents of Congress in similar situations in the past, as well as the PP.
Source: El Diario
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