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The Senate has definitively approved the reform of the Penal Code of Pedro Sánchez that repeals the crime of sedition and reduces the penalties for embezzlement for the benefit of those convicted and prosecuted for 1-O.

The reform, approved by 140 votes in favor against 118 against and three abstentions, will enter into force within 20 days once it is published, foreseeably next week, in the Official State Gazette.

The Plenary of the Upper House has voted against the five vetoes raised to the proposed law and has given the go-ahead to the initiative in which the reform of the organic laws of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court has not finally been included vetoed by this guarantee court.

This exclusion has given rise to a complaint from the president of the Senate, Ander Gil, who, when announcing the voting, lamented that the Constitutional Court has prevented "the legitimate use of the powers of the Chamber."

Criticism and reproach have rained down on the PSOE from the four corners of the Senate.

Some because of the way in which this bill has been processed, others because of its content, some more because of both things and, finally, the independentistas for having taken so long to accept their demands and not seeing them fully satisfied.

The socialists have had to listen through the mouth of ERC how they were warned that now they are the victims of a politicized Justice.

"The judicial right is willing to do anything, even to harm democracy," the senator from Esquerra has assured that she has not hesitated to accuse the PP of "coup."

Esquerra believes that the negotiation to which the PSOE has finally agreed with the independence movement "reduces the repressive capacity of the State and manages to shake the pillars of the 78 regime", both key aspirations of the secessionists.

The PP, through the mouth of senator Javier Maroto, has maintained that "the most serious thing" that has happened is the "legitimization by the PSOE of the pro-independence discourse."

Maroto has emphasized all the breaches of Pedro Sánchez and has stressed that the bill that has been approved today "collects all the false promises" of the President of the Government: it is agreed with Podemos and with the independentistas;

sedition is repealed and embezzlement is lowered.

"Only the last one is missing: the self-determination consultation," he warned.

The popular senator has accused Sánchez of being a "coward" and a "liar".

"You cannot agree with him on the justice reform because he is not a trustworthy politician," he stated.

Maroto has stressed that Pedro Sánchez is a "legitimate president and not a squatter", but "doing the opposite of what he promised at the polls is deeply illegitimate."

The representative of the PSOE, José María Oleaga, has avoided expressly defending the terms of the bill.

He has preferred to focus on attacking the PP, a force he accuses of saying "barbaric things" against the Socialists for accusing them of being "a danger to democracy."

"What we Socialists do in Catalonia is promote dialogue, reunion and coexistence. We look for solutions to problems", he stated before asking citizens who "have doubts" to look at things "with perspective".

"The situation in Catalonia has improved significantly and that is why this must be supported," she defended.

"The objective of this law is to homologate our legislation to that of Europe, seek coexistence in Catalonia and deepen democracy", he assured, stressing that "this is the right path".

"Trillerism, falsehood and impudence"

The Vox representative has delved into the fraudulent use that the Government has made of the legislative initiative.

This formation considers that Sánchez "works for the benefit of those who want to annihilate the State."

"The Government", said the Vox senator, "is disarming the rule of law, failing to protect the constitutional order and acting with impunity".

UPN has lamented "the arrogance and arrogance" of the government.

This party accuses Sánchez of "trilerism, falsehood and impudence."

His spokeswoman has asked who will be responsible for the retroactivity of the embezzlement reduction and has accused the Executive of prowling around "prevarication".

Geroa Bai has criticized the impossibility of having been able to have "a calm debate" given the express processing that was imposed on the initiative.

This group has accused the PSOE of having created a "Molotov cocktail" with a proposition that is a "totum revolutum."

Más Madrid, on the contrary, has resolutely supported the proposal of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos on behalf of the Government and has attacked the Constitutional Court for having accepted the amparo appeal of the popular and consequently vetoing the reform of the organic laws of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court that were intended to be cast via amendment in the initiative.

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