The Congress table demands the Senate « Education and respect » in their communications | Spain
The clash between Congress and Senate climbed one more step on Tuesday. The lower house table rejected The last conflict of powers raised by the other arm of the Cortes And he demanded that his communications « are carried out with education and respecting the institutionality that citizens expect from this type of writings. »
The Senate, with an absolute majority of the PP, had raised the conflict of competences after the Congress table accepted the Government’s veto to prevent the vote of the amendments to the Law of Food Waste approved in the Upper House. The Executive has the power to block initiatives when they imply expenditure extensions on the provisions of the budgets. But in this case, the major lawyer of Congress, Fernando Galindo, He expressed his objections on the relevance of the government veto.
The Senate then decided to raise a conflict of competencies with the other camera. And the chosen way to communicate it has caused the angry response of the Congress table. The president of the Senate, the popular Pedro Rollán, sent a brief written to his colleague of the lower house, the socialist Francina Armengol, accounting for the agreement to file the attribution conflict. To motivate it, it is limited to attaching a 14 -folios report with the popular group logo and the signature of its spokesman, Alicia García.
The tone of that text of the popular is the one that has outraged the representatives of PSOE and add at the table of Congress. In the resolution approved on Tuesday, the Government Body of the Lower House emphasizes that the communication of the Senate with the signing of the PP includes expressions such as “The table of Congress manipulated and falsified”, accuses the latter of acting “being aware of its illegality” or the strip of “pseudolegislator organ”. « This language, more typical of another type of areas, is not very suitable in a communication between constitutional organs of the State, » says the Government Body of Congress.
The table draws attention to the fact that the considerations of the Senate are expressed through a writing of a specific group, which considers « a demonstration of deterioration at the level of communications » and an act that « threatens political pluralism. » The Congress resolution requires the Senate to respect « the rules of parliamentary courtesy » and avoid « the confusion between the constitutional bodies and the parties that compose them. » For the rest, the table rejects the conflict of powers in an opinion full of legal considerations that concludes that the Senate tried to « denaturalize the balance between the two chambers that make up the general courts. »
The clashes between the two arms of the Courts follow each other almost from the beginning of the legislature. This same Monday, Armengol, at an informative breakfast, said the Senate Try to « contrast » what Congress does And he accused him of maintaining « a very party way of working. » This Tuesday the PP spokesman in the lower house, Miguel Tellado, who since the beginning of the legislature replied has been distinguished by its continuous disqualifications to Armengol. On this occasion he compared it to a « purchased referee that serves the interests of a part to the detriment of the general interest. »
