The Popular Party is not taking disciplinary measures against deputies at the moment Maria Jesus Moro, José Manuel Velasco And Rafael Benigno Belmontethe three parliamentarians who participated as speakers in the processing of the bill which benefits more than 40 ETA prisoners.
The spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Miguel Telladoapologized this Tuesday on behalf of his parliamentary group for “not having detected sooner” the “deception of the government”. The popular leader assured that his party “takes responsibility for not having been vigilant” but that “today it is not a question of clarifying responsibilities, but of finding solutions”.
Also Alberto Nuñez Feijóo He apologized for the “unjustifiable error” that the party he leads supported the “trick” of the Sánchez executive.
The Congress voted unanimously on September 18 in favor of transposing a European directive on the exchange of information on criminal records in the EU, for which an amendment has been introduced Add which, according to the interpretation of several jurists, would allow dozens of ETA members to be released earlier from prison, including Txapotethe assassin of the councilor of Ermua (Bizcaya) Miguel Angel Blanco.
José Manuel VelascoPP deputy from Toledo; Rafael Benigno Belmontedeputy of Seville; And Maria Jesus MoroMember of Parliament for Salamanca, participated as a speaker in the Commission of Justice responsible for the work of processing the law. Moro replaced Ana Vázquez, who did not attend the presentation because she was celebrating her birthday, as EL ESPAÑOL learned.
In fact, these three speakers signed that they had “carefully studied” the legal initiative “as well as the amendments presented”, according to the minutes of the presentation available on the Congress website.
Although the text of the standard arrived without modifications and only reflects the transposition of the European directive, in this working group the party of Yolanda Diaz introduced an amendment so that ETA detainees deduct the years of prison served in France.
Tellado explained that he had already “collected information on how the entire parliamentary process on this issue took place” and admitted that the PP deputies “may have lost sight” of Sumar’s parliamentary maneuver because they “focused” on his “seriousness”. in an amendment by Junts with which the Catalan separatists “intended to obtain judicial advantages for Mr. Puigdemont“.
Stop the law
Regardless, Tellado insisted that “today” is not the time to discuss whether or not these deputies should be sanctioned, but rather to “search for solutions”. And in this sense, he stressed that the PP in the Senate has already “saved time” because it postponed for a week the debate on the vote on this controversial legal reform, removing this issue from the agenda.
“We have a week in which the government will stop this” because the benefits for ETA are “an indignity”. It is for this reason that he summoned Pedro Sanchez “stop” this law and warned the PSOE that it had to clarify whether it was “with the victims or with the members of ETA”.
Tellado stressed that the PSOE must say “in what position it is”, given that “if it is not in favor of giving to these benefits penitentiary to terrorists” has “to this day October 14 to withdraw the bill from its parliamentary processing in the Senate”.
“We demand Game Socialist let him do it. Let him do it if he wants to be able to look people in the eye. victims of terrorism in Spain and if he wants to continue to take a responsible look at his own electorate. I think no socialist voter understands that today the PSOE, capable of stopping this in the Senate, is not doing so,” he said.
“I believe that today it is not a question of clarifying responsibilities. It is a question of seeking solutions. And the solution exists. The solution is in the hands of the Spanish government, which only has to send a letter to the President of the Senate to ask him to paralyze the parliamentary processing of the bill.
The popular spokesperson regretted that the Government was “capable of the worst deception that we could never have imagined, granting a victory to the murderers by perverting the adaptation of a Community directive.
