Gamarra invites Sánchez to approve a bill with the measures suspended by the TC

The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, this morning on Cadena Cope, expressed her satisfaction because "the rule of law has worked, and the counterpowers that Sánchez is trying to eliminate.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
20 December 2022 Tuesday 01:31
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Gamarra invites Sánchez to approve a bill with the measures suspended by the TC

The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, this morning on Cadena Cope, expressed her satisfaction because "the rule of law has worked, and the counterpowers that Sánchez is trying to eliminate."

At the same time, he suggested to the Government that it approve a bill to carry out the reforms that the Constitutional Court paralyzed yesterday in the Senate after Congress approved them last Thursday by 164 votes in favor and 84 against.

If the Government wants to go ahead with the reform of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court that was suspended yesterday, "it is as easy as approving a bill, with all the prior reports required, and obtaining the absolute majority that is necessary."

The PP spokeswoman believes that the Government will not do so, because "that requires reports from the General Council of the Judiciary, the Council of State and the Constitutional Court, among others, and that is what Sánchez does not want to do."

Gamarra predicts that the government will not want to use this route "but then it will not be able to approve its reform until February, and Sánchez is in a hurry."

Gamarra responds to those who say that the resolution of the Constitutional Court is unusual, that "it is unusual, because we have never had a president like Pedro Sánchez", with his "authoritarian and autocratic drift" with which he is leading Spain to an "illiberal democracy ", with actions such as the reform of the Penal Code "hand in hand with those who have committed crimes".

A reform, by the way, Gamarra recalled, which continues since it was not the subject of the PP's appeal to the Constitutional Court, he stressed, since it did not violate the rights of the deputies in the opinion of the popular, although the crime of embezzlement did It was done by means of an amendment, but it was a bill to reform the Penal Code, just like the reform of the crime of embezzlement. The content of this bill will be the subject, in any case, of another appeal, in this case unconstitutional, as the president of the PP already announced on his day.

The PP spokesperson tries to normalize what happened with her appeal and the decision of the Constitutional Court, which she justifies in the actions of the Government and the parties that support it of "legislating without guarantees and violating the rights of parliamentarians", and He blamed the reaction of the parties that support the Government, which speak of a coup d'etat and a decision that calls democracy into question, for "the dynamics of the President of the Government to discredit all the institutions if they do not agree with him, and this does that is dangerous". The unusual thing, for Gamarra, is that "Sánchez believes that he is above the law."