THE COUNTRY: The PP imposes a dozen summaries in the audience in a month

The Minister of Justice during the plenary session of Congress that votes on the reform of universal justice.
/ Chema Moya(EFE)

He 21 March must enter into force The law that ends universal justice, and in the following days a dozen submissions of the National Court must be filed. The PP has imposed in Congress and in the Senate an unusual procedure in a reform of these characteristics to close cases like genocide in Tibet which causes friction with the Chinese government.

"It's as if the Chinese regime imposed the agenda of Congress", An opposition spokesman summarized what this Thursday voted in the Plenary. The PP imposed a unique reading procedure, no commission discussion and minimally shorten the deadlines, With the collaboration of the President of Congress, Jesus Posada, that to fulfill that rhythm he celebrated an extraordinary plenary and announced another for Thursday that comes. So much has the government, that this plenary will be held after the debate on the state of the nation.

That process that scheduled only for cases of urgency or texts without complexity, But in no case for propositions supported by a single group or legal reforms that suppose immediate submary file.

That is why all groups, except the PP, They refused to participate in the vote. IU deputies and the rest remained in the hemicycle without vote, Once their spokesmen spoke of "democratic fraud", "Ring", "Interference in the Judiciary” and “roller” of the pp.

Constitutional reform

The popular one, Leopoldo Barrera, He raised that in 2009 The PSOE government used the formula of the amendment in the Judicial Office Law to establish limits in universal justice. That change was made with agreement between the two great games. This limitation now becomes almost total elimination.

The PP, Under the direction of the Ministry of Justice, will include some technical amendments, According to sources from the Popular Group. The legal reform has caused discomfort among judges and prosecutors of the National Court, who study to present a matter of unconstitutionality. They consider that not only obliges to archive summaries such as Tibet, that of Guantanamo or that of death in Iraq by José Couso, It makes it difficult to work against international crime.

The PSOE argues that it violates international treaties signed by Spain and could take it to the Constitutional.