The good thing about controlling a legislative chamber is that you can ignore everything that happens in the real world. You enter the building, greet the police officers and you are already in an alternative universe where you impose the rules. If anything, you are limited by the laws of thermodynamics. Beyond that, the Popular Party can turn the Senate into its own amusement park. We could call it Genoaland. Outside, strange and unpleasant things happen, such as the Catalan elections, but inside you can pretend they don’t exist. You can even pretend that your own party didn’t say what it said in that campaign.
After stretching the deadlines to the limit, the Senate rejected on Tuesday with the absolute majority of the PP the proposed amnesty law, which will now return to Congress for final approval. It is what the Constitution establishes and what happens on some occasions. From there, everything is normal. The PP decided to surrender to the evidence and announced that it was giving up raising an institutional conflict between both Chambers. Since he is a constitutionalist for what he is interested in, he had threatened to bang his fist on the table, ignoring that the Senate cannot impose its decision on Congress. The lawyers of the Upper House, elected by the PP, had told him that this was not possible.
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