The Senate does not rule out enabling a plenary session in the last week of the year to approve the repeal of the crime of sedition

MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Senate Board has left open the possibility of setting up an extraordinary plenary session during the last week of the year to be able to address the reform of the Penal Code that repeals the crime of sedition, so that it is finally approved before the end of 2022, as the government claims.

This was announced by the first vice president of the Senate, Cristina Narbona, in a press conference after the meeting of the Board of the Chamber, where she admitted that the situation of the processing of the reform of the Penal Code was addressed on Tuesday.

In this way, the Senate does not rule out enabling a plenary session on December 27 and 28 so that the repeal of the crime of sedition can be definitively approved before the end of the year. There is also the possibility, as Narbona has said, that this issue will go to the plenary session on December 20 and 21, where the Budgets for 2023 will be addressed.

In any case, the first vice president of the institution has specified that the specific date cannot yet be defined because it will depend on its processing in Congress. Precisely, the repeal of the crime of sedition will pass its first examination this Thursday in the Lower House.