The spokesperson for the PSOE in Congress, Patxi Lopezjustified the law which will benefit more than 40 members of ETA reduce their sentences and bring their release closer, ensuring that these prisoners were in a situation of “inequality” compared to those in other countries of the European Union. The socialist assured that the controversial reform which has now entered the Lower House responds to a transposition of a directive from the EUresurrecting the excuse of so-called Europeanization that the government of Pedro Sánchez had already used to destroy the crime of sedition.
“This law is a fundamental piece for the cooperation of European justice, for the collaboration of the different judicial systems of different countries. It was an element that had to be transferred to our country and which left the citizens of our country in a situation of inequality,” declared the spokesperson of the PSOE during a press conference. Patxi López thus joins the narrative according to which this law, which could free ETA leaders like Xabier Garcia Gaztelupseudonym Txapoteeither José Javier Arizkuren Ruiz, Kantaouriaddresses the lack of “remedial measures” in Spanish legislation. “This reform corrects a deficit by transposing a European directive,” he declared.
After the controversy that occurred this Monday, the PSOE proposed to reform the law which will benefit more than 40 ETA detainees. The socialists defended that the amendment introduced by Sumar to reduce the sentence of prisoners of the terrorist group ETA and which was incorporated into the text “literally reproduces the one included in the bill which The PP government of Mariano Rajoy initially sent to the Cortes Générales” and which, in addition, includes “recognizes the criteria of the Council of State in its obligatory report”. This is what the internal sources of the PSOE used.
From Sumar they explained that their amendment sought “correct discrimination” so that the Spaniards have “equal treatment in the application of European Community law”, because “currently any European citizen convicted in our country can benefit from the advantages of the execution of his sentence in his country of origin, while the Spaniards cannot do it,” according to the deputy spokesperson for the party in Congress, Enrique Santiago.
The PSOE refuses to modify the law
The PSOE refuses the Senate to modify the law which would benefit from it more than 40 ETA prisoners reduce their sentences and bring their release closer. The PP, which has an absolute majority in the Upper House, sent a letter on Tuesday to the Council of Senate Spokespersons asking for unanimity of the groups to withdraw Sumar’s amendments to the legal reform that would reduce the sentences of deputies. prisoners of the ETA terrorist group. “The PSOE and all its partners refused to sign the PP petition, aligning themselves with the interests of Bildu and ETA prisoners», assure internal sources of the popular.
The training led by Alberto Nuñez Feijóo refers to Rule 125 of the Senate Rules, which states that the text of a bill can be amended if it is agreed to by all groups in the upper chamber. In the end, there was no such unanimity, as reported by popular. Despite this, the PP asserted its absolute majority in the Senate to postpone the vote on this legal reform, even if it will not be able to postpone it beyond October 14. From the Feijóo formation, they defend that they will continue “to study all political, parliamentary and legal to stop this reform“.
“We cannot resign ourselves to damage of this scale to society as a whole, but first and foremost to the victims of terrorism,” stressed the PP spokesperson in the Senate. Alicia Garcia. “At the Council of Spokespersons, and under Article 125, we tried to correct this situation by proposing to the rest of the groups the proposed modification to eliminate Articles 12 and 14 from the text of the Project. We did not get this support, but we want to give all possible margin during the emergency period for the withdrawal of this bill. Margin to political groups. they can reconsider their position and room for the government to withdraw this bill which has been completely distorted,” he said.
