The PP applied its majority in the Senate and overthrew it on Tuesday amnesty law passed by Congress, with 149 votes in favor and 113 against. Now it returns to the House of Representatives, so that the government and its partners can lift the veto on May 30. During the debate in the House, Senator Alicia García of the PP criticized the fact that the measure “violates equality”, she called it a “business”, a “commercial operation between politicians to buy votes” and she assured that it was a “Great Democratic Fraud.”
After the debate in the Senate, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, predictably, chose to postpone and postpone as much as possible the consideration of the amnesty law, which was vetoed in an angry session that one day went to has been brought up because next Wednesday it is a holiday in Madrid. “We are confronted with an act of profound political corruption never before seen in our democracy,” the senator continued. popular of the tribune, who has distorted the text as a 'round deal' for the president of the government, which 'all Spaniards pay at a huge price'.
PSOE Senator Antonio Magdaleno believes that the results of last Sunday's Catalan elections, in which the PSC candidate won Salvador Illa, sends a “clear message” in the autonomous community: that “Catalans validate Sánchez and Illa's commitment to coexistence and reconciliation.” “The results show that Spain is not broken,” the Socialist continued, defending the rule. For Magdaleno, the Popular Party did 'nothing' when they governed Catalonia and 'practiced fronton politics': 'No to negotiation, yes to the legalization of politics.'
“They have promoted an unprecedented institutional conflict between the Senate and Congress,” denounced Junts senator Josep Lluís Cleries i Gonzàlez. “We senators who respect the parliamentary work of this Chamber are ashamed,” he continued, criticizing a “series of maneuvers to torpedo the amnesty law” by the PP. Cleries has also said that the law is a “recognition of the mistake of having legalized the political conflict”, although he clarified the Socialist senator's words and indicated that the “only” that remains is “repression and injustice”. ”: “The rest is still there.” 'What we do is not about forgiveness, nor about living together', 'it is about righting injustice.'
Institutional clash
At the end of 2023, the the right brought up the institutional clash which meant violating the Constitution: he threatened to block the approved standard and explicitly and unilaterally changed the regulations to limit the prerogatives of the government and the Senate to process emergency laws.
The majority of the PP has since asked several legal reports to give their opinion on this rule, including the General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ), the Chamber's lawyers or the Venice Commission. While the CGPJ conservatives approved a contrary report criticizing their 'flawed legal technique' Venice CommissionAlthough he maintained his criticism, he believed that the mercy measure did not violate the separation of powers.
The same Tuesday before the veto in the Senate, the Minister of Justice Félix Bolaños, shared in a post on a text in which the PP asked to delete the reference to the international organization in its proposal to withdraw the standard. “Here you have proof that within the PP they know very well that the Venice Commission supported the amnesty and that they do not even dare to say otherwise,” Bolaños wrote.