The Government finally regulates the judicial endorsement of the measures against Covid so that it depends only on the higher courts

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In the end, an express reform of the law of the

establish a new regulation on the obligation of the autonomous communities and municipalities to request the endorsement of the courts to decree measures against the coronavirus that affect fundamental rights, such as confinements selective or restrictions on freedom of movement.

Some autonomies of both the PP and the PSOE were demanding changes so that their measures did not depend on the Justice and the Government's response has always been to defend that prior authorization as a guarantee of the process.

But you have now chosen to make some modifications to speed up the process.

The regional presidents complained about the rejection of the courts to some of their measures, something that happened occasionally in

and

, and the Executive has now decided that this is a competence only of the

, the highest organ at the regional level, instead of the ordinary contentious-administrative court, for all decisions of a "general" nature.

The modification also includes the preferential processing of these authorizations, the establishment of a maximum period of three days to process them and the participation of the

in this type of procedure.

The reform is going to be introduced through an amendment to the draft Law on procedural and organizational measures to deal with Covid-19 in the field of the Administration of Justice, by the Socialist Parliamentary Group This project is in the process of amendments in the Senate and after its approval in this Chamber, it will go to Congress to be ratified, which would allow its entry into force in a very short time, says the Executive.

The changes, promoted by the first vice president, Carmen Calvo, and the Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, "seek to provide the highest possible legal security to the decisions adopted by the health authorities, as well as to the means of control and challenge of the same for the benefit of citizenship and the common interest ".

The modification, also highlighted by the Government, reinforces the response capacity of the communities in the face of the pandemic.

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