Congress gives until February 21 for the Justice Commission to approve the Amnesty Law

MADRID, 6 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Congress Board has decided to give the Justice Commission until January 21 to approve a new opinion on the Amnesty Law that must be voted on in the Plenary, a decision that has been taken with the vote against. PP.

The majority of the PSOE and Sumar in the governing body of the Chamber has thus applied the criteria established by the institution's lawyers in a report that was not binding.

The Board has ignored, also following the position of the legal services, the thesis of the PP and Vox, which maintained that the bill had declined on January 30 when it was rejected in the overall vote to which it had to be submitted. for its organic character.

In the plenary session a week ago, the legislative initiative was submitted to two overall votes: one on the opinion, in which a simple majority was enough and an absolute majority was achieved in favor; and a second given its organic rank, where an absolute majority was required in favor and an absolute majority was obtained against.

The PP and Vox defend that the text declined because in the organic vote it was rejected by 179 votes, three above the absolute majority. However, the Board has ratified the decision announced then by the president of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, and has sent the bill back to the Justice Commission for a second chance.

The two-week period, based on the lawyers' proposal, will be counted in calendar days starting this Wednesday. The Regulation establishes a period of one month when an initiative of an organic nature must be returned to the commission from which it came when an absolute majority was not achieved in the overall vote, but this bill is processed by the emergency procedure, which which implies the reduction of deadlines by half.

In this new phase of the negotiation, the commission will have to work on the opinion of the bill approved by the Plenary last week and the amendments that remained alive. That is, new amendments cannot be registered, but those rejected on the 30th can be used to search for transactional issues.

Although the horizon set by the Congress Board is for the new opinion to be ready no later than February 21, the Justice Commission could request an extension if it considers that more time is required to rule. Of course, article 131.2 does not allow you to go beyond one month in total.