The reform of the Criminal Code does not have to be ratified by Congress again despite the changes forced by the TC

MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The reform of the Criminal Code, which repeals sedition and changes the penalties for the crime of embezzlement, will not have to return from the Senate to Congress to be definitively ratified despite the changes in the bill forced by the paralysis decreed by the Plenary of the Constitutional Court (TC) of the two amendments that affect its renewal, according to what parliamentary sources have informed Europa Press.

The aforementioned sources specify that the changes in the bill have been produced by the suspension of two amendments through very precautionary provisions of the TC and that, therefore, these modifications in the norm are not the result of parliamentary processing in the Senate.

Moreover, they explain that the paralysis of the amendments on the renewal of the Constitution would affect the initial text, suspending these two modifications from the origin and not in the parliamentary course of the bill in the Senate.

In this way, if the plenary session of the Upper House on Thursday, December 22, rejects the vetoes and the amendments presented to the bill promoted by the Government, this reform of the Penal Code, which, among other things, repeals the crime of sedition and lowers the penalties for embezzlement, would now be definitively approved.

The Senate Board, which met this Thursday morning after learning of the decision of the TC, decided to continue with the processing of the reform of the Penal Code without the paralyzed amendments on the renewal of the court itself.

Thus, the Justice Commission was in charge of separating from the rest of the bill the amendments on which the Constitutional Court issued its very precautionary measures and decided to paralyze it. Once this was done, the majority of this body approved the opinion and sent it to the plenary this Thursday.