Arrimadas sees "very serious" that the Government copies the independence movement when reforming laws: "The process has jumped to Congress"

He warns that a parliamentary majority "is not an absolute power", since there are things that Congress can approve "unconstitutional" things

MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has assured this Friday that yesterday was a "very serious" day because the processing of the Government's initiative to change, among other regulations, the Penal Code has followed a procedure "identical" to that of the ' disconnection laws' from the independence movement in the Catalan Parliament in September 2017, one month before the illegal referendum. Thus, she has denounced that the 'procés' has passed from the Generalitat to the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

"The 'procés' has jumped from Parliament to Congress and from the Government of the Generalitat to the Government of Spain," Arrimadas considered, to criticize that "very important" laws are changed through the "back door" in just "48 hours" and "no appearance."

In statements to Telecinco, collected by Europa Press, Arrimadas recalled that in 2017 she was a deputy in Parliament and that now, being in Congress, she can affirm, from experience, that in "both places the same thing has been done process".

"Changing very important organic laws through the back door, with deadlines that are 48 hours and without appearance, introducing amendments that have nothing to do with the initial text and with a lot of jurisprudence from the Constitutional Court (TC) that says that it cannot be to do. Without resolving the appeals, they voted", he has had an impact.

For the president of Ciudadanos, the PSOE has contradicted itself because it criticized these practices of separatism on September 6 and 7, 2017 and now, instead, it acts in an "identical" way. "What Batet and Forcadell did, I'm not saying it's exactly the same, but it reminded me a lot," she specified immediately and in reference to the president of Congress and the then president of Parliament.

"Those who criticized separatism then, the PSOE included, now for consistency would have to be scandalized," added Arrimadas, who has said that the Socialists need to do "pedagogy", especially as it is a party that participated in drawing up the Constitution of 1978. "Pedro Sánchez has no scruples and his government has no limits, and that is extremely dangerous," he warned.

And asked if she considers that popular sovereignty resides in the Cortes, the deputy has specified that a parliamentary majority "is not an absolute power", since there are things that can be approved in Congress and that are "unconstitutional", they lie down and cannot be applied, "because the decisions of this Parliament may be subject to control, which is that of the TC".

Arrimadas has claimed that the system for choosing judges must be improved, including those of the Constitutional Court. Having said this, he has criticized that with the amendments added to the initiative that eliminates the crime of sedition, it is intended to eliminate the prior control of candidates to enter as magistrates in the guarantee court.