Count-Pump enables a whole week to discuss and decide on amnesty | Spain
The president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpid You can examine the draft sentence on Amnesty’s law with time and depth. Conde-Pumps thus respond to the letter directed by the magistrate of the conservative block of the Court Enrique Arnaldo, who considered that the three days of an ordinary plenary could be insufficient for this deliberation, so he asked that the discussion about the ruling could be extended to the two plenary sessions planned for July, which will take place on the 7th and 24th of said month.
The progressive majority of Constitutional He estimates that “successive readings of the presentation” will not be necessary at the plenary meetings of the month of July, since all the magistrates who will intervene in their deliberation and failure have a copy of the text since last day 2. Hence the decision of the president of the Court to positively respond to the request of Arnaldo, but without taking beyond June the deliberation, but enabling two more days of the same week for this week.
The plenary for deliberation and vote of the failed It was going to develop between June 24 and 26, with the conviction of the progressive majority that it would be enough time to vote on this last date. The request of the aforementioned magistrate, on the other hand, presented his doubts about the viability of this calendar, and requested that an extension of deadlines be contemplated, to leave open the possibility of taking the vote of the sentence to the month of July. Arnaldo explained in his letter that he made this request in order that, given a resolution of special legal relevance, the members of the court had the opportunity to make “a sufficiently detained and non -hasty weighting of the arguments that, I am sure, each one must expose”.
To this initiative and the thesis on which it was based on a possible insufficiency of time has responded condemos-pole with the authorization of the five working days of the week of June 23 to 27 « for the deliberation and vote of the sentence. » The president of the court also emphasizes that this extension is agreed « in order to have enough time and maintain the continuity of the deliberation and the unit of act with the vote. » Conde-Pumpid adds that “this forecast, studied in detail in collaboration with the speaker magistrate (the vice president of the Court, Immaculate Montalbán), is necessary to be able to begin in September the study of the rest of the pending issues on this matter”, which are 30 resources between those of the autonomous communities, the issues of unconstitutionality and the resources to Proces to those who have not applied the law for understanding the supreme that its effects should not extend to the crime of embezzlement.
In its resolution, the President of the Constitutional affirms that with the new decision adopted on the deadlines for the discussion of the sentence project and the corresponding vote on the appeal presented by the PP against the amnesty law, a time is set that “it is sufficient for the study of the presentation, since it has been distributed more than three weeks in advance, as requested”. He also explains that the debate on this rule « will be dedicated two plenary. » The first, which begins this Tuesday, June 10, will have « informative and not deliberate, where the speaker magistrate will make a detailed exhibition of the proposal. » In turn, the second, two weeks later, will serve to carry out « a previous study (to the vote) and thorough of the proposal », and will be « a monographic full, where the deliberation that is desired and necessary » can be carried out. Conde-Pumpido has also taken into account that lengthening deliberation to the month of July « would greatly make it duly signed the sentence including eventual particular votes before summer holidays. »
