The Congress lasts a reform of its regulations to sanction Pseudomedios | Spain
The Congress of Deputies has already set as a “necessary and urgent” obligation to change its internal operation regulations to prevent The false journalists and pseudomedians who have proliferated in recent years that condition and harm the daily work of the majority not only of parliamentarians, but also of journalists of « legitimate media. » The first vice president of the Chamber, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, launched on Tuesday Past from the hemicycle gallery that challenge to all parties and PSOE and add have established contacts with most groups to agree on the reform of that regulation. The draft of that law, which handle several political groups and that would include for the first time the typification of sanctions for bad behavior, also sent to the PP, but refuses to support it, as Vox does. However, the change could get ahead with the support of the parties that form the Executive and its usual partners.
« The Bulos and hate propagators erode our democracy through pseudomedia. I call on all political groups to agree with courage the modification of the Congress Regulations. It is necessary and urgent. In his hands he is, ”proclaimed the socialist vice president of Congress, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis on Tuesday at the end of the Plenary. It was the consequence of months and weeks of discrete negotiations first at the Chamber table, even with the components of the PP, professional associations of journalists, and then with a draft document of the new law with all other groups present in the Board of spokespersons, all except with Vox.
The PP already warned of a starting one that had very difficult to adhere to that project. Some of the components of the PP at the table understand the reasons behind the attempt to reform the norms that govern for the behavior of deputies and journalists and other houses of the house within the Congress, especially with regard to Pseudoperiodists accredited by companies that take advantage to harass with questions and provocations fundamentally to members of the progressive government And of their allied matches, but they do not maintain precisely good relationships or trusted with the official spokesman of the popular, Miguel Tellado. Tellado has already clarified to El País that the PP will never support a change that counts those characters.
The professional associations of journalists have been repeatedly asking in recent years that the Congress authorities take measures to ensure that professionals can do their work within the Chamber without suffering harassment, accusations or insults of representatives of Pseudomedians. These organizations urge the Chamber to adopt these measures, but in no case will they exercise surveillance functions on the work of others accredited to cover parliamentary activity.
The new text is aligned with the European Regulations for the Freedom of the Media (Regulation 2024/1083) and with the future Spanish legislation announced by the Government as transposition of the emanant regulations of Europe.
PSOE, Sumar and the other groups, frequent partners of the Government, have finally understood, after months of doubts about the repercussions of these measures, that the situation has become so damaged with the performance of those pseudoperiodists that had to be put on it. The draft of the law, which will require the absolute majority of the Chamber to prosper, is already handled in several matches and is intended to accelerate. First he will go to the table to qualify him and accept his debate, and then he will go through commission and presentation to reach the plenary, be voted and go into force. That process requires months.
The draft of the new law of the Congress Regulation, to which the country has had access, states that from the lower house « actions aimed at identifying and differentiating between legitimate media and those that operate for propaganda purposes, manipulation or destabilization will be promoted. » The text portrays the scenario achieved in recent years with the appearance of new media, mobile phones, the so -called citizen journalism, activists, social networks and the distortion of the public debate with the false, manipulated and biased news, and the challenge of trying to protect the parliamentary space to the new times is fixed. The current article 98 regulates how accreditations to work in some areas of the Congress are granted, but in the new standard it is recognized that it has been outdated. In December 2011, the Presidency raised some criteria added in an instruction, also outdated.
In articles 105 and 106, indeterminate legal concepts are alluded to « persons who disturb » or who cause « serious disorders », but their interpretation is left to the criteria of the presidency and say nothing of « how and why you can miss » the accreditation to work within the congress.
The problem was already found in Congress, in July 2019 after The entrance and illegal recording of a journalist from Okdiario In the office in the Chamber of Vice President Pablo Iglesiasby Podemos. The accreditation was withdrawn for a year. The Supreme Court, however, estimated the journalist's appeal and annulled it in February 2020 Not by the bottom of the problem but because that measure was not based on rules approved with a typified regime of punishments. It is what you want to introduce in line now with what is already established in other parliaments, Europeans and other countries.
