This Tuesday, Congress rejected the maneuver initiated by the PP to delay the approval of the criminal record law that validates the sentences of Spaniards accumulated in other EU countries. The president of the Upper House, Pedro Rollán, considered the bill vetoed this Monday and ordered it to be returned to Congress despite the fact that amendments had not been registered in a timely manner and the regulations stipulate in those cases that the text is automatically approved.
The progressive majority of the Lower House has relied this Tuesday on a verbal report from the general secretary to reject the PP movement and send the law directly to the Official State Gazette.
“The Congress Board, after analyzing the recommendations of the legal services of the Chamber, has resolved that it is responsible for respecting the regulated procedures and understands Organic Law 7/2014 on the exchange of criminal record information and consideration of criminal judicial resolutions as validated. in the European Union, which will be sent to the BOE for publication,” parliamentary sources report.
The Senate yesterday addressed the processing of a law involved in controversy after learning that its approval could benefit ETA prisoners who had served part of their sentence in other EU countries. The PP and Vox had voted in favor of this law in the Plenary Session of Congress, but after the effects that the text could have came to light, both parties denounced a deception on the part of the Government. Once the deadline for amendments in the Upper House had concluded, the PP only had to reject it as a last movement without effect, since in those cases, if there are no amendments or vetoes, the Senate process is merely testimonial. The law would travel to the BOE after Monday’s vote.
However, Rollán, in an unprecedented interpretation of the regulations, decided that the vote against was equivalent to a veto and ordered the rule to be returned to Congress. The maneuver took even the House services by surprise. At the beginning of the session, the communications department distributed an explanatory document to the journalists about what was going to happen during the morning. The last page expressly stated that Rollán would say: “Without prejudice to the result of the vote, as the Senate has not opposed a veto or introduced amendments in the terms established in article 90 of the Constitution, the draft of the Constitution is definitively approved by the Cortes Generales. law”.
But Rollán changed his plans and said: “Having been rejected the organic bill that modifies Organic Law 7/2014 of November 12 on the exchange of criminal record information and consideration of criminal judicial resolutions in the European Union for its adaptation to the regulations of the European Union on the European criminal record information system, by absolute majority of the Senate, which is required in article 90, point two, of the Constitution, to oppose the veto in accordance with the article 106 of the House Rules, it must be understood that the Senate Plenary has vetoed the text.”
Congress has thus ignored the PP’s maneuver. The votes of the PSOE and Sumar at the Table have given approval to the lawyers’ report that recommended “respecting the regulated procedures” and approves the text that, unless there is a last-minute change, will be published in the BOE in the coming days. .
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