Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-7:00 p.m.
Congreso Junts fulfills its threat: paralyzes the Amnesty law and forces Sánchez to negotiate more transfers
Politics The PSOE accuses the judges of trying to boycott the amnesty: "Every time the Executive moves a chip, a judge moves a chip"
The setback in the processing of the Amnesty Law after the vote against the Junts this Tuesday in the Plenary Session of Congress returns the process to the box immediately preceding the process, the Justice Commission. The opinion that came out last week with the amendments relating to the extension of the pardon to certain cases of terrorism linked to the
process
will return to this body of the Lower House , since that text has received the green light in the chamber.
The work of the groups with parliamentary representation will have to focus on this document, to which the amendments that are still alive can be incorporated, that is, those that have received today the favorable vote of the majority of the Chamber. New amendments cannot be presented nor those that have been knocked down today can be recovered, although those that have not fallen can be negotiated.
In practice, this parliamentary mechanism would still allow substantial changes to be made to the Amnesty Law, but the PSOE are, for now, inflexible in the face of Junts' demand to include all cases of terrorism without exceptions to ensure that Carles
Puigdemont
will be among the beneficiaries.
Now the lawyers of Congress have to decide whether the Justice Commission process is carried out through the urgent procedure, in which case it would last 15 days, or through the ordinary procedure, in which case it would last a month. Later it would return to the Plenary Session of Congress and that would be the final vote.