The general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegisaid he felt “affected and touched” this Tuesday when he learned accusations of sexual violence against Íñigo Errejóngiven that she knows him personally as well as some of his ex-partners. “No you have to search monsters“We have them on our side,” he said of Sumar’s former parliamentary spokesperson.
Just hours after his words, he voted with the PSOE, Sumar and the rest of the inauguration bloc in Congress to begin the process of reforming the Citizen Security Law, called Gag law on the left and reformulated as Otegi Law by the PP.
Bildu was precisely responsible for presenting a law whose text had been accepted by “the entire left” (and supported by Junts). The idea is that the process is urgent and can be approved before the current one, which came into force in July 2015, reaches its tenth anniversary.
The bill will be the same as that adopted in committee during the last legislature, but incorporating the four shock points which then provoked the rejection of the left abertzale and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC): the ban on the use of rubber bullets; hot returns; examining lack of respect for authority; and disobedience.
In fact, the nickname jaw This has little to do with the text of this law. The standard does not provide for any restrictions on freedom of expression with regard to insults towards the Crown, Religion, Government or other institutions. In fact, as this newspaper has previously published, the negotiation of some of these crimes took place through the Democratic Action Plannot for that of Citizen Security.
Except the article which talks about “unauthorized” recordings For agents, the Constitutional Court approved practically the entire norm in 2020, including the immediate return of immigrants and sanctions in the event of concentration disturbances, as well as searches involving total nudity.
Budgets, in the background
But once its process is completed, the law as proposed (it will still undergo some changes during the modification period) will serve to deprotect the police and the Civil Guard. This is what the main associations of agents affirm, who denounce that the reform “only benefits violent demonstrators and criminals and binds us hand and foot”.
The same text presented by Bildu promises to put an end to “unjustified or based on subjective interpretations” sanctions for lack of respect for authority. It also considers as a minor offense “the insults or insults “whose recipient is a member of the Security Forces and Corps in the exercise of their security protection functions.”
Context is important in this case. Pedro Sánchez is immersed in the negotiation of the general state budgets which, if obtained, could give him the opportunity to arrive immunized at the end of the legislature (and not have to approve new ones). next year). Bildu’s support is essential.
This is why, less than a month ago, the Socialists gave their agreement to the reform of the law which will reduce the sentences of 52 members of ETA who served sentences in French prisons, some of them ‘among themselves for blood crimes. This was the first concession. THE jaw This is the second.
