The reform to facilitate citizen procedures in the Administration will continue its processing in Congress. The Senate took into consideration the bill defended by Junts, in addition to the endorsement of the absolute majority of the Popular Party.
Its processing was also supported by ERC, Bildu, PNV, Geroa Bai, Agrupación Socialista Gomera and UPN. The PSOE and Más Madrid voted against and Vox abstained.
After overcoming its first vote, it will begin its journey in the Lower House, where it must wait for the Bureau to decide to close its amendment periods, before being discussed in rapporteurship and Committee.
The proposal proposes several legal changes to ensure that public bodies provide digital certificates and documents and exempt the citizen from having to resubmit documentation already provided in their administrative procedures.
The PSOE, main force in the Government, sees this proposal “impossible”. “It is a matter of security,” argued its senator María Ángeles Luna. “People have to go before an official to prove their identity. It is an impossible measure,” she assured.
Amendments already announced to the Register
The ‘populars’ backed the proposal, not without first criticizing that the legal changes that the initiative proposes to the Mortgage Law and its regulation, since they would allow digital simple notes to have no cost, once issued, in case no changes had occurred.
“Those modifications have to fall,” advanced Inmaculada Hernández, senator of the PP, who questions a possible collision with legal certainty.
Bagué, Junts senator in charge of defending the initiative, had already put forward amendments to accept the proposals submitted by the College of Registrars, as Demócrata reported this Wednesday.
The parliamentarian explained that the Property Registry already has a continuous online note that can be consulted without additional cost to that of its first issuance for ten calendar days, deeming the current solution good.