The PP plans to present a bill in the Congress of Deputies with its global proposal to strengthen the rule of law, including the new crime of constitutional disloyalty with which it ran for elections last July, recovering the classification of the illegal referendum and incorporating new causes of party dissolution politicians, as also included in the entire amendment to the amnesty law agreed between the Government and the independentists.
In the conservative party they know that the presentation of that amendment made by the parliamentary spokesperson, Miguel Telladohad many errors. Different leaders recognized that same day and the next, when Tellado appeared before the media again to give new explanations, that the terms were confusing and that they had not conveyed the most important aspects of his proposal. To the point that the widespread reading was that the PP supported the illegalization of pro-independence parties in line with previous Vox proposals to which they had always refused.
Feijóo himself made a important self-criticism, pointing to his spokesperson, in an interview on ‘Onda Cero’ this Tuesday: “We probably took our explanation as obvious and there are things that cannot be taken as obvious. I understand that we have not done a minimum of pedagogy with the amendment, which we presented on the day the deadline expired, January 3,” he acknowledged.
Those around the national leader assume errors when transferring what the amendment said during the Christmas season, but they also recognize that the contentwhich could have some points, It was intended for a bill to the future that Feijóo always had in mind to present giving it much more solemnity. The PP is convinced that in this legislature it will be necessary to debate the protection of the Constitution and the rule of law after the elimination of the crime of sedition from the Penal Code, taking into account the political agenda of the partners of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive.
In fact, Feijóo himself revealed those plans in the interview when opened to debate the proposal in the Chambers and introduce changes from other parliamentary groups. He was not referring to the amendment in its entirety (which will be rejected in the plenary session this Wednesday and will automatically decline), but to the initiative that his group, the first political force in Congress, wants to bring up for debate later.
Dissolution or suspension of parties
He point of greatest controversy of the popular text looks at the dissolution of parties that incur in declarations of independence or illegal referendums (which would previously be classified as crimes). Hence, Tellado himself, like Feijóo yesterday, insisted on his clarification: “Ideas are not pursued, but crimes are pursued.” What the amendment says is that a penalty of dissolution would be imposed on the legal entities responsible for these crimes unless they collaborated with justice to restore the constitutional order, in which case what there would be is a suspension of activities for a while.
The leader of the PP continues to defend the terms in which the text of the amendment appears, but he did open himself to future modifications if the party ends up taking its bill to Congress. “It can be discussed whether to suspend those parties and Only in very aggravated cases do you consider dissolution. Well yes. “It is a proposal that will be debated in the Chambers and we will see the amendments that are presented,” he went on to say.
The PP recalls that since 2012, legal entities (organizations and parties) and public administrations can be convicted of committing crimes. And they also insist that there are already 35 causes included in the Penal Code that carry dissolution penalties, such as embezzlement, bribery or the glorification of hatred. It would be, they say, add another assumption regarding constitutional disloyalty in the event that non-observance of laws or non-compliance with judicial resolutions is promoted, seeking to harm the unity of the country.
Various leading conservative jurists have participated in the PP amendment that is called to inform the future bill. Feijóo himself revealed that they have thoroughly studied the law compared to cases like the German one, which have especially inspired his text. What they say in the party is that when the law reaches the House they would open themselves to studying amendments from other groups such as the reduction of penalties that they propose or if there should be more penalties of suspension than dissolution, which would be left for the most serious cases. “It is a debate that we have to have”Feijóo concluded.
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The populars They especially criticize the position of the PSOE, taking into account that what they propose is the classification of crimes that promote actions against the Constitution or that put the unity of the country at risk. “I am surprised by the concern. Are they going to commit these crimes?” Feijóo asked himself this Tuesday before the leadership of his party in the national executive committee.
The mess with the amendment that did worry the PP also has to do with the confusion of concepts. The popular have never supported proposals to ban parties promoted by Vox in Congress. The ultra training of Santiago Abascal It requested a modification of the Law of Parties to prohibit pro-independence organizations and the PP always opposed it, remembering that it clashed with the Constitution and the doctrine of the Constitutional Court itself. Feijóo reiterated again yesterday that in Spain “there will continue to be pro-independence parties” as long as people vote for them because the Magna Carta does not effectively prohibit them. And he repeated: “Our proposal does not pursue ideas.”