“Ridiculous”. “Collaborators needed.” “Hoax”. “I'm kidding”. “Greek.” “Mental pie.” “Insolation”. These are just some examples of the expressions used by senators this Thursday in response to the PP's urgent call for the Senate to “suspend” the power struggle against Congress that Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party had been promoting. trying to paralyze the amnesty law. When it came time to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the PP withdrew, to the amusement (and anger) of the other groups.
The PP has mobilized the upper house for months to try to stop the amnesty law before its final approval by Congress, scheduled for the end of the month. Those from Feijóo have called in experts, they have requested reports from the General Council for the Judiciary which they have blocked for more than five years, they have requested 'ad hoc' legal opinions from the Chamber's lawyers to declare parliament illegal. labeling procedure followed by the House of Commons and have convened extraordinary plenary sessions to move forward in challenging the Congressional Board's actions.
All for nothing, because this Thursday the Senate “suspended” the power conflict raised indefinitely. And it doesn't seem like it will be reactivated before the final approval of the amnesty, which is why the House of Lords plenary has essentially challenged itself.
Of course, almost exclusively with the votes of the PP, because the majority of the factions chose to be absent from the vote so as not to accompany the people of Feijóo in the decision. The result: 143 'yes' (all from the PP, which has 144 senators), one 'no' (from a socialist senator) and two abstentions (from a socialist and another from the PP). These last three, all by accident.
Even Vox has not guided the PP in its strategy. On the contrary, the far-right party was the first to intervene in the plenary on Tuesday and has mercilessly attacked Feijóo's party for what they consider an “example of how the PP is unable to defend the state to the end.” , legality and national unity.” Senator Paloma Gómez regrets that the PP says 'one thing in the campaign' to 'do the opposite after the Catalans'. “PP voters in Catalonia have already been scammed. It's the same old story,” he insisted, calling right-wing senators “necessary collaborators” of the independence movement.
Vox's policy has been a harsh intervention with the PP. The rest of the spokespersons have gone from banter to anger in very short speeches that have taken up far from regulatory time. Carla Antonelli (Más Madrid) has asked them to 'accept once and for all' that the alleged attribution conflict 'is over'. “They are fooling themselves with the false use of the Senate,” he concluded.
From the PNV, Estefanía Beltrán de Heredia branded Thursday's plenary session, which met this Tuesday expressly because of the risk that the procedure would end, as a “filfa” and a “joke”. “You never had the intention of going to the Constitutional Court,” he snapped. “They did it because they let the Vox people breathe down their necks. They had to buy time. “They have used the Senate as their private farm,” he accused.
Josep Lluís Cleríes, from Junts, has expressed himself in similar terms, choosing to express himself in Spanish instead of Catalan. “If you have an absolute majority and you're embarrassing yourself, you're absolutely embarrassing yourself,” he told them, calling the whole process “gross.” ERC and EH Bildu have chosen not to participate in the debate.
And from the PSOE, Francisco Fajardo has taken advantage of his time to rejoice at the retreat undertaken this Thursday by the PP, to whom he has granted the 'right to make the biggest fool ever seen in this Senate'. “There is a mental impasse among the PP leaders,” he claimed.
“Feijóo left them lying around, he used them as a clinic and he threw them in the trash,” he said, recalling the “team goal in an own goal” that was the report of the Venice Commission And? the PP no longer denounces in his opposition to the amnesty.
“None of the deputies have submitted a request for protection” against the processing of the standard, the Socialist senator reminded them. “The deadline has passed,” he prodded, to consider that “the Senate's senior lawyer” has “considered the Senate's request” as “answered,” contrary to what the PP thinks.
“They are very scared. “You are very scared because you don't want to go to the Constitutional Court because you know what is going to happen to you,” said Fajardo, who described the PP's writing as a “tantrum of a small child” whose “material and intellectual author, he said, suffered “sunstroke” in his time.
The person responsible for defending the PP's position is Antonio Silvan. “The question we all have to ask ourselves is why we are here,” he began, to the consolation of the other groups who applauded wildly because one of the complaints was precisely the absurdity of today's plenary session.
“Yes, yes. Laugh. Laugh, laugh, laugh like hooligans,” the senator simply replied.
Silván has accused the Council of the Congress of Deputies of “failing to fulfill its obligation” and “skipping the rules.” The PP claims that it is not the Governing Council that should respond to the Senate's request to Congress to repeal the amnesty law, because it is a “disguised constitutional reform”, but rather the Plenary Assembly. And because it did not do so, the Senate does not consider it answered, even though the House's lawyers believe it did.
The PP senator has defended “putting the conflict on hold,” which “does not mean” renouncing “the intervention of all possible remedies” against the amnesty. Of course without specifying anything. Neither the how nor the when.