24 hours before the investiture debate of Pedro Sánchez, and with just a few days left before the amnesty law is debated, the Senate anticipated this Tuesday what can be expected from the legislature that begins in Congress, with a angry session where There was even no lack of strong words, during the debate on the reform of the Regulations of the Upper House, to try to delay the approval of the grace measure when it arrives from Congress, and which is already a fact when it passed by 147 votes in favor, of PP, UPN and Vox, and 116 against, of all the parties that will support Sánchez to be president.
A session in which the spokesman for Puigdemont's party, Josep Lluis Cleries, ended by saying that "a purely democratic negotiation is being carried out for an investiture, and "if you don't like it, posa-t'hi fulles" (And if you don't like it, like it, you get annoyed"). A session in which Carla Antonelli, senator from Sumar, emulated Isabel Díaz Ayuso and accused the PP of wanting to "create a shadow government to dynamit the Government of the nation and parliamentary democracy" and assured that the PP wants to "subvert the results of the polls, carry out a coup d'état on democracy and introduce a dictatorship through the back door, the dictatorship of the losers.
What was being debated was the reform of the Senate Regulations, sponsored by the PP, so that it is the Chamber Table, where it has an absolute majority, who declares the urgency or not of the legislative proposals that come from Congress - which will happen with the processing of the amnesty law -, and not the Lower House or the Government, as has happened until now. Everything to delay two months, three at most, since the majority of the PP will not allow the approval of the amnesty law in the month of January, which is a non-working day.
A debate in which Junts, ERC or the PNV were seen criticizing the PP for making a rule that they consider unconstitutional. from the senator of Geroa Bai, Uxue Barcos, who stressed that it is wrong to "go out on the streets on Sundays to defend the Constitution and ignore it in the senate", to the spokesperson of the Confederal Left, who accused the PP of "damaging the Constitution" with the reform, or the ERC spokesperson, who called on the PP to "sanity", or Cleries, who assured that "when initiatives are tailored to an issue, they are wrong), which caused laughter from the PP.
The PSOE spokesman, Francisco Fajardo, was the first to announce that the approved reform will reach the Constitutional Court, because the socialist senators will appeal it for protection, while he accused the PP of being in collusion with those who demonstrate in front of the socialist headquarters, and warned them that "these antidemocratic sins cannot be atoned for by praying the rosary."
The socialist spokesperson asked the PP to abandon "the rage", because "what is our fault that the Spanish people have not given it the absolute majority in Congress that it has in the Senate." For the PSOE, the PP questions the result of the polls, and accused them of "saying that they defend the Constitution and kicking it every time they can," and that is why they hope that the Constitutional Court "will give them the review they deserve." ".
And the PP spokesperson, Eloy Suárez, responded to them, and in the same tone: "People, in the street, know that the PSOE is not going to disappoint history, and if an outrage has to be committed to come to power, they will commits," he said, while responding to the spokespersons for different groups on the left, starting by adding, who complained about the demonstrations in the street and the "siege" to which they subject certain institutions, which for a siege "is that was experienced in 2011 in Congress to try to prevent Rajoy from being elected president, or the siege of the Andalusian Parliament so that Juanma Moreno could not take office", and he asked "why the PSOE can do whatever it wants and "the PP cannot reform the Regulations."
