Ciudadanos sees the sedition reform as a "very dangerous" precedent for Sánchez against the "constitutional consensus"

MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has assured this Thursday that the reform of the crime of sedition announced by the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, is a "very dangerous precedent" and "an arbitrary transfer to separatism" so that they continue in the Palace de la Moncloa, while warning that the measure goes "against the Supreme Court, the constitutional consensus" and the "dignity" of Spanish democracy.

"Sánchez scraps the Penal Code to the measure of those convicted of sedition", Arrimadas denounced in a message published on the social network Twitter, collected by Europa Press, in which he pointed out that the President of the Government "has no limits" to continue in Moncloa.

For his part, the deputy secretary general of Ciudadanos and national spokesman, Edmundo Bal, recalled that Sánchez "came to the elections asking the Spanish to vote with the promise of bringing former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont into custody" while now announcing "a Penal Code to your measure to pave the way to impunity for future blows to the Constitution". "It is unspeakable: he has no scruples," he has lamented on social networks.

This Thursday, Sánchez announced in an interview on La Sexta that the PSOE and United We Can present a legislative initiative in Congress tomorrow to reform the crime of sedition, which will be renamed "aggravated public disorder."

He has also pointed out that the new criminal type will be "more or less homologous" with other European democracies such as Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland and the penalties for these crimes will be those that govern the criminal codes of those countries and has denied that this is an ERC requirement to approve the PGE as Gamarra maintains.