PSPV and Compromís are not going to negotiate the Concordia law promoted by PP and Vox in the Valencian Courts. The left-wing parties consider that “nothing can be rescued” from the text presented by the partners of the Valencian Government and they will not present amendments to modify the norm.
A situation that, after the setback of the United Nations report that warned that the legislative proposals could violate human rights, leaves (above all) the PP in a complicated situation. And the popular party will not be able to take advantage of the opposition's amendments to negotiate a less controversial text, and they will only have two options: amend themselves or approve the law as it has been presented.
The PP parliamentary group in Les Corts had always been willing to negotiate possible amendments with the opposition; although without touching the basic pillars of the law that have allowed the agreement with its Vox partners: the recognition of all victims from 1931 to the present. This is another no less relevant issue and that is that any change that is wanted to be introduced in response to the response that the norm has received (on which the media focus also weighs) will have to have the approval of Vox, which has already lowered its initial claims in the formulation of the bill.
Thus, PSPV and Compromís will present an amendment to the entirety with a very brief alternative text that demands that the Historical Memory law approved by the Botànic be maintained. However, the idea is not to present modifying amendments and not to negotiate point by point changes to the text.
Socialist deputy Mercedes Caballero explains to La Vanguardia that “nothing can be saved” from the PP and Vox law and regrets that the victims of ETA have been used, who, remember, already have their own law. For her part, Compromís deputy spokesperson Isaura Navarro justifies her position regarding the parliamentary process with the fact that the law “deregulates, steals human rights and insults the collective intelligence and history of Spain.”
For this reason, both deputies believe that the only alternative to a rule that they agree serves to "whitewash Francoism" is to maintain the current law, which "does regulate rights and offers the guarantees inherent to a legal text." For this reason, and in order not to lose the opportunity to debate (if you do not present amendments you cannot participate in the debate), the intention of the two opposition groups is to present the so-called suppression amendments. That is, proposals to eliminate each of the points of the PP and Vox proposal. In this way, the Botànic rule would remain in force.
This strategy does not please the PP, which considers that, if it materializes, the opposition would be “abandoning its functions.” And the lack of negotiation would force the popular parties to approve a law - which they know will end up in court and which has already received a slap on the wrist from the United Nations - with hardly any changes. A relatively uncomfortable situation.
Perhaps for this reason, the socialists suspect that the PP wants to leave the parliamentary debates on this law until after the European elections on June 9. They are aware that politically it can work against them and that the socialists have no intention of pacifying this debate. This Wednesday the presence of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is scheduled in Alicante at an event to commemorate the Day of Tribute to the Victims of Exile.
