With 24 hours left for the investiture debate of Pedro Sánchez, and a few days before the amnesty law begins to be processed, the Senate yesterday anticipated what can happen with a rough session, full of insults and words thick It was during the debate on the reform of the rules of the Upper House proposed by the PP to try to delay the measure when it arrives from Congress, which was approved with the absolute majority of the PP, to which Vox and the UPN were added.
A session in which the spokesman for Carles Puigdemont's party, Josep Lluís Cleries, ended by saying that "a purely democratic negotiation is being carried out for an investiture". And in Catalan, he added: "And if you don't like it, put leaves on it." Carla Antonelli, senator from Sumar, emulated Isabel Díaz Ayuso in accusing the PP of "creating a shadow government to dynamite the Government and parliamentary democracy" and of wanting to "subvert the results of the polls, give a coup d'état to democracy and bring in a dictatorship through the back door, the dictatorship of the losers".
The approved reform allows the Bureau of the Senate, in which the PP has an absolute majority, to process, on an urgent basis or not, the proposals of law that arrive from Congress, such as the amnesty law, regardless of how it is processed the Lower House All this to delay the entry into force of the amnesty by two months, three at most, since January is a busy month. During these two months, the PP aims to pass through the Senate, among others, the CGPJ, judges and prosecutors to find out their opinion on the amnesty, since the legislative proposals do not require the reports that are mandatory for projects.
Together, ERC and PNB rejected the reform because they consider it unconstitutional. Thus, the senator from Geroa Bai, Uxue Barkos, emphasized that it is not very good to "go out on the streets on Sundays to defend the Constitution and skip it in the Senate". An argument similar to that of the Confederal Left senator, who accused the PP of "damaging the Constitution" with the reform, was that of the ERC spokesperson, Sara Bailac, who called the PP to " seny", or that of Cleries, who assured that "when initiatives are tailored to an issue, they make mistakes", which provoked laughter from the popular group, because this is one of the flaws, in his opinion , of the amnesty.
Francisco Fajardo, of the PSOE, announced an appeal to the Constitutional Court, accused the PP of being in collusion with those who demonstrate in front of their socialists and warned them that "these anti-democratic sins are not expiated by praying the rosary". The socialist spokesman asked the PP to abandon "the anger". "What is our fault that the Spanish people have not given them an absolute majority in Congress?" he said. For the PSOE, the PP questions the result of the polls, and accused him of "having said that he defends the Constitution and kicking it every time he can", and for this reason he hopes that the Constitutional Court " give them the review they deserve".
For the PP, Eloy Suárez replied that "the people in the street know that the PSOE will not let history down, and if it is necessary to commit an abuse to reach power, it is committed". He responded to the accusations of being behind the protests in the street, assuring that his are not a "siege" and that, as a siege, there is "what happened in 2011 to try to prevent Rajoy from being elected president, or the siege of the Andalusian Parliament so that Juanma Moreno could not take office".
