The People’s Party announced this Monday that it would withdraw the bill by which more than 40 ETA prisoners They could benefit from counting the years they spent in foreign prisons on the agenda of this Tuesday’s plenary session in the Senate. News that comes a few days after the text left the Congress of Deputies with the support of all groups. However, this movement will not have much effect, since the only objective is to gain a little time, as well as to put the ball back in the government’s court.
In this way, the rule on the exchange of information on criminal records and the review of criminal court decisions in the European Union will be abolished. Currently the plenary session begins in the Senate. In addition, they offer the Government one week to do the same before it comes into force next Monday, October 14.
According to popular sources at laSexta, from Genoa the Executive is asked “to use its power to withdraw this legal reform” and thus know “what was his true will” when it came to executing it. Along the same lines, they assert that “the responsibility remains in their hands to overturn this decision.”
Likewise, they assure that “if the government does not withdraw this text”, they will seek “any legal or parliamentary alternative which can protect this country from indecency which would result in reducing the sentences of ETA terrorists through tricks parliamentarians”. However, privately They recognize that no other legal option exists. In fact, they emphasize that “the PSOE is the only party capable of putting an end to this nonsense.”
On the other hand, they recall that their leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “spoke this morning with the president of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) to apologize personally for what happened and we share the rejection of any parliamentary trick consisting of reducing the sentences of terrorists.
On the morning of this Monday, we learned that the government of Pedro Sánchez was about to respect the EH Bildu training roadmapwhich has become practically essential so that the Executive can continue to advance the texts in the Congress of Deputies.
On September 18, a judicial reform was unanimously approved in the Congress of Deputies, with the votes of the Popular Party and Vox, to modify Organic Law 7/2014 with the aim of apply a European transpositionthat is, authorizing the modification of criminal records within the European Union. A reform which hides within it one of the historic demands of Bildu and those around ETA.
