The Constitutional Court is active This week, the appeal procedure against the amnesty law with the question of unconstitutionality raised by the Supreme Court, which will be accepted for treatment unanimously, while accumulating a dozen additional challenges that will be studied during the next plenary sessions.
Judicial sources explain that the Plenary Assembly that meets this Tuesday will admit to deal with the question raised by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court regarding the offence of disturbing public orderwhose president is the conservative Ricardo Enriquez, the first of the many resources and questions that the Constitutional Court awaits regarding the norm.
Because the PP’s appeal, presented last week, it’s the 24thwhose spokesman is the conservative José María Macías, has described as a “popular” proposal. And the following ones will be those of the governments of the autonomous communities Madrid, Andalusia, Galicia, Aragon and Murcia, governed by the PP, and Castile-La Mancha, by the PSOE.
Three regional parliaments have also appealed, of Aragon, Cantabria and MurciaBoth the PP and the governments of Madrid, Andalusia and Galicia have challenged the president of the TC, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, and the magistrates Laura Díez – a former senior government official – and Juan Carlos Campo, although he himself withdrew because of his statements on amnesty when he was Minister of Justice.
Its resolution may take a year
The sources explain that the court will give preference in handling the Supreme Court issue because it is not only the first, but also because it emanates from the highest court in the country. so that it can pave the way for the resolution of all the remedies of unconstitutionality and protection that the court will see later.
The Criminal Division of the Supreme Court raised the issue before the TC in late July in an order in which the magistrates claimed that it did not contain ““doubt” that the law collides withThere are several constitutional rights, such as equality before the law and legal certainty.
In this regard, the sources clearly indicate that the journey will be long and that Its resolution can take up to a year, the horizon beingand more optimistic about six or eight months. But first, the Plenary faces the request of Judge Juan Carlos Campo who communicated his abstention in the debate on the issue raised by the Supreme Court, because as Minister of Justice he drafted the pardon files for the pro-independence leaders in a document in which he barred a future amnesty as unconstitutional. It is expected that your request will be accepted.
