Rajoy’s gag law survives five years of a left-wing majority and the Government gives up its reform

The Government considers the reform of the gag law to be dead. After five years of a left-wing parliamentary majority and except for surprise, the Citizen Security Law, promoted by the Executive of Mariano Rajoy in the face of enormous social response, will survive the legislature of Pedro Sánchez intact. Its repeal came to be reflected as one of the commitments of the progressive coalition government which, however, has shown itself incapable of agreeing with its parliamentary allies on the reform. Its repeal was not possible during the first years of Sánchez’s term, whose government resorted to the norm to punish breaches of the states of alarm decreed during the pandemic and the sources consulted doubt that it can be done in the remainder of the legislature. In the background, the massive protests by the Police and Civil Guard, a determining factor in the opinion of some of the PSOE partners.