PNV and PDeCAT are seen as fundamental allies of the socialists in a process that has been suddenly unblocked
Parliamentary sources believe that EH Bildu will abstain and will facilitate the democratic memory law
A deputy said this Tuesday with a tired face, around 4:30 p.m.: “The Government wants to pass a lot of laws in a hurry this month, so we do not stop with amendments that come and go & rdquor ;. The deputy had been in his seat, in the debate on the use of co-official languages in Congress, and he was leaving in a hurry to the office to analyze proposals from other groups and weigh possible agreements.
This is how things are in the House: amendments that come and go for laws that begin to arrive at close range. A quick review: the bankruptcy law, the business creation law, the science law, the gambling regulation law, the explosive precursors law, the financial information law against organized crime, the law on the background of sustainability of the electrical system, the sports law, the law on the retribution of CO2…
The calendar until June 30, the end of the ordinary period, is more than tight. A deputy commented last week that it was difficult to find spaces to schedule presentations and commissions, basically because they are all already busy. Or almost all. The agenda, in fact, does not stop moving, oscillate and change. In this changing context due to tight deadlines, a surprise sprang up: the democratic memory law, stuck for months because there was no way to find a political path through which it could circulate, was suddenly unblocked.
Sources from the socialist leadership, asked about it, explained that if the procedure has been unblocked, it is because it has solid signs of finishing well, and not only that, but also that it be fast. This medium asked various parliamentary sources where are the keysIn which games? Those sources pointed to the PNV and the PDeCAT. “It is very advanced & rdquor ;, sentenced one of them. “The positions are very close,” deepened another.
But with the help of both is not enough. The participation of a third group is necessary. All eyes are on ERC and EH Bildu, therefore. Asked about it, a source from the Catalan leadership points out that they are out of any agreement. He even acknowledged that they do not know why the PSOE has stepped on the accelerator of a regulation that has been dozing in Congress for almost a year, in the Constitutional Commission specifically. “I guess the road will go to the right & rdquor ;, he added.
In EH Bildu, for their part, they clarify that there is nothing agreed either. “We have been informed that the paper is already created; We do not know what has happened so that suddenly there is such a rush & rdquor ;. The sources of this formation acknowledge the contacts with the Government, but do not specify that they have been, among other matters, about the democratic memory law.
But a source from one of the groups that supports the coalition government explained that with the abertzale formation there have been and are important contacts, aimed at at least achieving their abstention. EH Bildu’s source has indicated to this medium that there is no nothing closed and that he ignores what the PSOE can propose to get his political organization out of rejection.
So with EH Bildu it is advisable to remain cautious. Some sources bet why they will indeed be in the solution. Others ask to wait.
fast process
In any case, all the sources see the end of the processing of a norm for which nobody in Congress, or almost nobody, gave a penny. She was asleep, at the bottom of a drawer, because the Government did not find a way out, neither to the left nor to the center-right. They thought they saw it because PSOE and United We Can agree on the amendments and decided to promote it, back in late 2021. They found that there were no more votes and decided to put the process on hold.
The unforeseen electoral cycle did not help. The early elections in Castilla y León caused a layer of dust to be thrown over the law. The one from Andalusia, which had been intuited for a long time, added one more capita. 19-J has already been celebrated in the eight Andalusian provinces and the result, disastrous for the left, has left a reading that speaks of revulsive. It is about finding the key, or keys, that allow progressive citizens to find a reason to go vote, and also, vote for an option from that spectrum.
The leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has advocated “a serious and slow reflection & rdquor; about what happened last Sunday, the day that Juanma Moreno, from the PP, won the absolute majority of a community that this party has never governed. He has stated that the Executive “is not on the right track because people’s daily lives are more difficult, and it is normal for them to get angry & rdquor ;. EH Bildu’s spokeswoman, Mertxe Aizpurua, has stressed that “people’s perception & rdquor ;, in his opinion, is that “the approved measures are not bold enough & rdquor; because “they have no impact on the day to day & rdquor ;.
The reflections that Errejón spoke of have occurred during Tuesday in Congress, although perhaps not with the pause and calm that he defended. In the midst of this landscape verbalized concerns, appeared on the agenda of Congress that the Constitutional Commission will meet this Wednesday to create the proposal for the law of democratic memory and, almost certainly, begin to see amendments. There may be major news before the end of the month. A debate on the state of the nation is expected in July, which Pedro Sánchez may be interested in going with that trick in his backpack.
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In this norm, the Government claims that “all the laws of the Spanish State, including Law 46/1977, of October 15, on Amnesty, will be interpreted and applied in accordance with conventional and customary international law and, in particular, with International Humanitarian Law, according to which war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture are considered imprescriptible and non-amnestiable“.
For ERC, as long as the amnesty law for 1977, there are no options for backup. It also asks for financial compensation to the victims, like EH Bildu. PSOE and United We Can, in this regard, are softer.