The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Saturday the law on the exchange of criminal records and review of judicial resolutions in the EU, rule that will allow certain ETA terrorists leave prison earlier if we take into account the sentences previously served in France.
The PP argued that the Senate, where the party has an absolute majority, will present a conflict of powers before the Constitutional Court, since, according to him, the rejection of the law by the plenary session of the Upper House must be understood as a “veto“and Congress should have voted again on this initiative.
The Lower House, however, approved it without putting it to a vote and the regulation was sent to the BOE where, as expected, it is published with the signatures of King Felipe VI and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. As established in its sixth final provision, It will come into force 20 days after its appearance in the BOE.
Effective within 20 days
The Constitution establishes in its article 91 that “the king will sanction within 15 days the laws approved by the Cortes Générales, and will promulgate them and will order its immediate publication”. In the text published this Saturday in the BOE, Felipe VI emphasizes: “To all those who see and understand this. Know: that the Cortes Generales have approved and I come to sanction the following organic law.”
And the norm was thus promulgated, even if the Senate considers that The process was not yet complete. On Friday, the PP announced that it had registered a document in the Senate to formally request a rectification from the Congressional Council, a preliminary step to the presentation of a conflict of powers before the Constitutional Court, something unprecedented between the two legislative chambers.
The provision which will allow terrorists to accumulate sentences served in a European country and to count them in get out of prison before joining in the bill during its processing in Congress, thanks to an amendment by Sumar. The PP claims to have supported the text by mistake, but when He realized it was already too late and there was no possibility of amending it in the Senate.
