The PP expands its amparo appeal before the TC to stop the reform that seeks to renew the court

The Popular Party has registered this Friday, before the Constitutional Court (TC), an extension of its amparo appeal with which it intends that the Courts do not vote on the amendments that seek to facilitate the renewal of the guarantee body itself, sources from the Group have reported Parliamentarian of the PP (GPP) in Congress.

The PP has recalled that the parliamentary groups that make up the coalition government (PSOE and Unidas Podemos) have processed the bill to repeal sedition and reduce embezzlement, "through which they intend to reform two organic laws -one of the Constitutional Court and another from the CGPJ-- via addition amendments".

In this writing, the 'popular' have attached the minutes of the meeting of the Bureau of the Congressional Justice Commission, in which it is stated that the lawyers assured that there are amendments that could "not have a material connection" in addition to not saving "minimum homogeneity relationship" with the proposed law. According to the formation led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the president of the Commission "ignored these warnings and rejected the request of the GPP not to include said amendments."

The 'populares' also indicate that, although the opinion of the bill was voted on in plenary session of Congress, their request for amparo was related to the parliamentary process, "for which reason the transfer of the initiative to the Senate to continue its parliamentary course does not prevent the High Court from acting".

"With this, the GPP intends to defend the fundamental rights of parliamentarians so that all guarantees are met. This is believing in the rule of law and defending it," they have claimed.

In this context, the PP has asked this Friday the Senate Board to stop the processing of the reform of the Criminal Code, which modifies the Constitutional Court, repeals the crime of sedition and changes the penalties for embezzlement, and that it will be carried out in the Upper House next Tuesday, December 20, one day after the pronouncement of the guarantee court on the request of the PP to stop the parliamentary course of the norm.

The 'popular' have requested, in a letter to which Europa Press has had access, the suspension of the processing of the bill in the Senate, using, among the arguments, the "obvious fraud of the Law" that means not processing it as a project of law to "avoid the wording of article 561 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary" and "not to collect the pertinent reports from the CGPJ, the Fiscal Council, and the Council of State."

The parliamentary group led by Javier Maroto has also criticized the urgency of the processing because, as he explained, it is "incomprehensible" that in a reform "so important for the safeguarding of our Constitutional system" its processing is prevented "in accordance with the deadlines ordinary".

However, the TC will hold an extraordinary plenary session this Monday to address the PP's request to stop the parliamentary course of the reform of the court itself.

The decision made by the president of the TC, Pedro González-Trevijano, to suspend the extraordinary plenary session that began this Thursday to continue it next Monday allowed the bill and the set of amendments that it carries to be voted on Thursday in the Congress of the Deputies.

Thus, the decision that the Constitutional Court finally takes on the very precautionary measures requested by the PP in its appeal for amparo --with which it seeks to stop the parliamentary processing of the amendments that affect the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the TC-- will have a direct impact on the course of the bill in the Senate.