The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has demanded this Tuesday from the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, and the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, that they put an end to their "blockade" of the Legislative Power after the resolution of the Constitutional Court became known. In her opinion, with this ruling, the Popular Group has been "given reason" after the "filibustering" that she attributes to the Government and the PSOE.
The Constitutional Court has unanimously upheld an amparo appeal promoted by the PP against the agreement of the Congress Bureau which extended on 71 occasions the deadline to register amendments to a bill whose processing had been declared urgent.
In the ruling, the TC recalls that the urgency procedure obliges to reduce by half the deadlines foreseen in the ordinary legislative processing, which "in this case implied that the deadline for the presentation of amendments concluded on February 15, 2021".
SAYS THAT THE TC GIVES "THE REASON" TO THE PP
In some recorded statements disseminated by the PP, Gamarra has stressed that the Constitutional Court gives "the reason" to its parliamentary group. "This practice is a practice of filibustering that is contrary to the separation of powers and to the activity that the Legislative Power has to develop," she stressed.
The popular leader maintains that the Constitutional Court "confirms that Pedro Sánchez from the Bureau of Congress blocks the approval of laws". "This is 'sanchismo', which governs in minority and what it does is fraudulently use the procedure for extending amendments", she has asserted.
In this context, he recalled that the President of the Government "said he was going to govern without Parliament and the reality is that he is governing against Parliament." "And this is what the TC ruling declares," he insisted.
A SENTENCE THAT HAS TO "MARK A BEFORE AND AN AFTER"
Gamarra has stressed that the Constitutional Court establishes that Sánchez and Armengol "cannot continue blocking us and preventing laws from being approved in Spain just because the Government is in a minority".
"We urge that after this ruling a unblocking be carried out, that this attitude be ceased, that these undemocratic practices be abandoned and that the Legislative Power be allowed to develop its function, which is to legislate and approve laws with sufficient majorities that can be formed," the deputy secretary of the PP has demanded.
In his understanding, this resolution "is fully current" and must "mark a before and an after" in the functioning of the Legislative Power. "They cannot continue preventing laws from being approved in Spain because the Government is in minority", he concluded.