The Valencian Table of Cortes has decided not admit the popular legislative initiative (ILP) to processing presented by a Catalan sovereignist party which sought to recognize “the right to self-determination” of “País Valencià”. This was confirmed this Tuesday by the president of the regional Parliament, Llanos Massó (Vox).
The governing body, in which the four groups are represented, made this decision – subject to appeal – with the support of the Chamber’s lawyers, from whom they requested last week a legal report on an issue which, as it already seemed, does not meet the legal requirements to be debated.
The “Proposed law for the declaration of independence of the Valencian Country”, registered by Catalan solidarity for independence In the days leading up to the regional festival of October 9, he stressed that the history of the territory is “intrinsically linked to that of the others” which “constitute the ‘Catalan Countries'”, in reference to Catalonia and the Balearic Islands . , when he intended to recognize the result of the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 and the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia.
He lawyers’ report of the Valencian Cortes, consulted by ABC, is clear on this subject. Although the formal defects noted in the procedure could have been corrected, the text promoted by the general secretary of the aforementioned party, David Folch, as well as by the Valencians Vicent Pallardó and Ricard Chulià, member of Compromís, contains material errors that could not than be corrected. be amended by presenting a completely different initiative, because it collides head-on with Magna Carta.
“The intention of the popular legislative initiative to achieve a formal proclamation of the national sovereignty of the Valencian people, separately and independently of national sovereignty to which the Spanish people are entitled – of which the Valencian people are part according to article 2 of the Constitution -, far exceeds the legislative competence of the Corts”, explain the jurists.
“The initiative presented aims de facto at a reform of the Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy without following the respective procedures planned. Thus, it is planned to modify the preliminary title of the Constitution with a law of the Corts Valencianes, giving rise to a process that affects the entire Spanish citizenship, with the redefinition of the property and the scope of national sovereignty but without contradicting it. holder of this sovereignty, which is the Spanish people, which requires a certain process of constitutional reform”, they add.
Furthermore, the Constitution itself vetoes ILP constitutional reform initiativeboth at the national and regional level. Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència, which is not represented in any institution, already presented an ILP in February to the Parliament of Catalonia to declare the independence of this region. His treatment continued thanks to votes from the Junts, but in April the Constitutional Court suspended him after accepting an appeal from the central government.
