The socialist spokeswoman in Congress, Soraya Rodríguez, defines the text of “Legislative abuse” and collects the support of the other opposition groups to the resource, In an act organized by the Human Rights Association of Spain
Thubten Wangchen's Tibetan monk greets Javier Couso, Brother of the JosephCouso in Congress. / Uly Martín
A step away from the definitive approval of the reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary that de facto files the application of universal justice in Spain, The PSOE has announced that it will present an appeal before the Constitutional Court. “If this is, And this is, What is going to be published in the BOE, The Socialist Parliamentary Group will present an appeal for unconstitutionality against this law ”, The PSOE spokeswoman has announced in Congress, Soraya Rodríguez, In an act organized in the lower house this Tuesday by the PROSUAN RIGHT PRO ASSOCIATION OF SPAIN.
To the announcement of Rodríguez, that has defined the reform as a “legislative abuse” which violates the right "to effective judicial protection", The representatives of the other parliamentary groups have joined. All highlighted in their interventions unconstitutionality, By approval and content procedure, of a text that the deputy of Iu Gaspar Llamazares has labeled “fudge in every sense of the word” for being approved "by summary and retroactive route". The government chose the fastest way for reform, processed as a proposition of law by the popular group, With unique reading urgency procedure, thus avoiding the process of consultation of bodies such as the General Council of the Judiciary or the State Council.
Retroactivity is, According to the deputy of Ciu Jordi Jané one of the unconstitutional elements since, He said, "It cannot be retroactive that limits rights". Jané recalled that if the above reform of 2009, that the PSOE then agreed with the Popular Party, "I left the door ajar, This closes it at all” And "it will generate impunity spaces". An opinion shared by UPyD Irene Lozano deputy for whom the text "guarantees the impunity of criminals of the worst species". For the deputy also feels a precedent. "Let the tyrants dictate the policy of Spain", has affirmed in reference to China's pressures after arrest warrant issued by the National Court against five members of the Communist Party dome in the investigation of genocide opened in the case of Tibet.
Of “Parliamentary Defect” PNV deputy Emilio Olabarría has spoken, who has expressed the support of his party to the appeal, although it has wondered if the constitutional “will be able” to approve the norm. He has not been the only one to raise doubts about it. ERC ESTER CAPELLA SENADORA, even ensuring the support of your party to the initiatives that oppose the implementation of the reform, has declared to have “little faith” In the action of the Constitutional Court.
The resource that the PSOE will present will not be the only one that the high court will have to examine. Both the jurists present, Among them Apdhe's lawyer Manuel Ollé Sesé and Carlos Slepoy Prada, The member lawyer of the legal team that promotes The complaint filed in Argentina for torture crimes under Francoism, They have assured that there are solid technical arguments to present the appeal for unconstitutionality together with an appeal for the amparo of the victims of the dozen cases to which the reform will give a folder when the PP, absolutely, The text in the Senate approves at the end of March.
“I am here in the name of six million Tibetans who are suffering. I am very grateful to Spain but very disappointed at the same time with the Government of Spain that is saying amen to China ”, has declared the Tibetan monk and president of Casa Tibet, Thubten Wangchen, Spanish citizen and one of the witnesses of the investigations for the genocide and the repression of the Tibetan people, considered the trigger for the rapid action of the Spanish government to approve a reform that sets a diplomatic conflict with China.
Among the affected cases is the camera José Couso, Dead in Baghdad in 2003 After US military firing at the Palestine Hotel, where journalists sent to cover the Iraq conflict were housed. His brother Javier, In his speech at the act, recordó que "la puerta para esta reforma se abrió en 2009”. "With today's announcement –has affirmed referring to the appeal announced by the PSOE– They give us some repair. I hope they fulfill it, But until I see it I will not believe it ”.
