With the deadline for the presentation of partial amendments to the Amnesty law about to expire, the PP confirmed this Tuesday that it will veto in the Senate, where it has an absolute majority, the text sent from Congress, so the Lower House will have to vote again on the rule so that it can come into force.
The PP spokesperson in the Upper House, Alicia García, confirmed this in an appearance from the hall of the lost steps of the historic Senate building, where she reiterated the reasons why the opposition considers that the amnesty is unconstitutional, this is, because it breaks, in his opinion, the separation of powers and is "tailored to its main beneficiaries", in addition to affecting, as stated in the report approved yesterday in the general commission of the Autonomous Communities, the solidarity between the territories.
The popular group in the Senate bases its veto of the Amnesty law proposal on the reports of the General Council of the Judiciary, the general secretariat of the Upper House, the lawyers of the Justice commission of Congress, the Venice Commission - whose ruling, the socialists, on the other hand, see their theses as favorable - and the text approved yesterday by the general commission of Autonomous Communities, drafted by the PP and endorsed without amendments by the popular majority.
In addition, the popular ones denounce that the Amnesty law is a "covert reform" of the Constitution and "seriously clashes" with fundamental principles of the rule of law: “It is an à la carte self-amnesty, which privileges politicians who have committed crimes and they have been condemned for it,” García warned, recalling that the law was passed “with 51% of the seats in Congress” and not with a reinforced majority necessary for a constitutional reform.
These arguments have been refuted by the PSOE spokesperson, Juan Espadas, who considers that the PP is using the Senate as "a theater" in which the opposition leaders "offend" and "insult" the socialist representatives: "That right that does not know how to respect a different opinion from a political adversary is a representation from another era," said the senator, who has accused the popular party of "manipulating" the Upper House.
"It's good enough to ask everyone who passes by here for reports, to stop messing around," said Espadas, who assured that the PP has "hammered" the institutional conflict between the Senate and Congress, which he described as of "legal entanglement" that will not have any significance, on the agenda of the debate that will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, in the plenary session of the Upper House.
