The PP charges against Moncloa for manipulation of the Venice Commission report and says that it does not support the amnesty law

The PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, charged this Friday against the Government for the "manipulation" of the preliminary report of the Venice Commission, pointing out that it "does not endorse" the amnesty law as defended by Moncloa.

"How desperate Sánchez must be to resort to crude manipulation like this. In his eagerness to cover up the corruption that corners him, he does not mind lying even about drafts of the European institutions," García criticized in a message published on the social network , collected by Europa Press.

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, and the spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Miguel Tellado, have also accused the Government of manipulation and "distorting" the report of the Venice Commission on the amnesty.

"That the Government itself is dedicated to leaking a draft from the Venice Commission on the amnesty before its debate and approval shows the level of desperation in which it is installed," Gamarra wrote, adding that in Moncloa "they are desperate" and have "distorted" the report "to hide a setback."

For his part, Tellado has accused the Executive, also through X, of "manipulating and lying about everything." "The Sánchez Government is crumbling. It is the end of Sanchismo, a government in decomposition," declared the PP spokesperson.

Sources from the PP in the Senate have also pointed out that the Venice Commission displeases the Executive that the proposed amnesty law is made "without reports and without social participation" through emergency means, focusing on the fact that "a law of this nature cannot be made for specific people".

According to the PP, "it is indeterminate in its object and time, which is why it is contrary to the principles of legal certainty and criminal legality" and "the crimes of embezzlement and corruption are poorly defined."

"It does not enter into the division of powers because it is a matter of the constitutionality of a country," says the PP.

The 'popular' reiterate that "amnesties must comply with the Constitution" and that the Spanish Magna Carta does not regulate them "but it does consider general pardons unconstitutional." At this point, the PP focuses on point 87 of the Commission's report, interpreting it as the body "considering that the Constitution should be reformed before approving an amnesty law."

The sources also denounce that, in the opinion of the PP, "the law suffers from indeterminacy regarding its object and temporal scope, which is why it would be contrary to the principles of legal certainty and criminal legality in the area of ​​the rule of law." "This indeterminacy extends to the crimes of embezzlement and corruption, so it could cover crimes that have nothing to do with the social tensions to which the amnesty law responds," he says.

The PP states, citing point 90 of the report, that "amnesty laws cannot be drawn up to cover specific individuals, but must have generality and abstraction." "The singular law in this case is debatable. If proportionality is not taken care of - being the last remedy when no others are available, such as the granting of particular pardons -, the legitimate purpose of any amnesty law may be lost, which is to lead to cohesion and social peace," he warns.

For the PP, the amnesty cannot produce "future effects, but only on crimes committed in the past, something that Spanish law does not respect."

"There is no room for differentiations such as those made by the law regarding terrorist crimes, this is irrelevant whether there is a final sentence or not, or other distinctions of this type," the PP emphasizes, stressing at the same time that "embezzlement and corruption are not correctly classified as amnestiable because the law does not sufficiently reveal the need for the existence of a defined causal link in relation to the 2017 referendum".