Progressive magistrates of the TC label the decision to suspend the parliamentary process as "interference"

MADRID, 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The particular vote of the progressive magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC) Cándido Conde-Pumpido, Ramón Sáez Valcárcel and Inmaculada Montalbán points out that the decision to suppress certain amendments that were included in the bill that repeals the crime of sedition and reforms that of embezzlement "is unusual in the history of the Constitutional Court" because "it constitutes unprecedented interference in the legislative function."

In their letter, collected by Europa Press, they add that this interference was also carried out "without even allowing the contradictory hearing required by any process", and they regret that the deliberation and resolution of this matter has generated a division into two blocks of the members of the plenary session of the TC that "transfers to public opinion an image of mimicry or following of the parliamentary confrontation and the partisan political conflict".

In addition, they point out that the disagreement with the decision of the Plenary, went ahead by 6 votes against 5, "is rooted and initial", and they assert that the challenged magistrates --Pedro González-Trevijano and Antonio Narvaez-- "should not have been part of of the college that would rule on the claims of the plaintiffs (...) and the defendants".