The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Saturday the law on the exchange of criminal records and the consideration of judicial resolutions in the EU, a rule which will allow some ETA terrorists to leave prison early taking into account 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 it, the rejection of the law by the plenary session of the Upper House must be understood as a “veto” and Congress should have voted on the initiative again.
THE Lower House, However, I approved it without putting it to a vote and the regulation was sent to the BOE where, as required, it is published with the signatures of King Felipe VI and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
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As established in its sixth final provision, It will come into force twenty days after its appearance in the BOE.
The Constitution establishes in its article 91 that “the King will sanction within fifteen days the laws approved by the Cortes Générales, will promulgate them and order their immediate publication”.
In the text published this Saturday in the BOE, Felipe VI emphasizes: “To all those who see and understand this present. Know: that the General Cortes have approved and I have 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 that will allow terrorists to accumulate sentences served in a European country and count on their early release was incorporated into the bill during its consideration in Congress, thanks to an amendment by Sumar.
The PP claims to have supported the text by mistakebut by the time he realized it, it was already too late and there was no possibility of amending it in the Senate.
