The PP includes a provision that requires filing cases opened in the National Court that do not meet the new requirements
MADRID, 9 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS)
The Senate will debate this Monday the seven veto proposals and the twenty amendments that the opposition has formulated to the reform of universal justice. The plenary session convened for this week will move forward, without foreseeable changes, the norm, que dará 'carpetazo' to a dozen cases opened in the National Court.
The reform was approved, the past 27 October, in the Congress of Deputies thanks to the absolute majority of the Popular Party. A few days later, saldrá adelante en el Senado donde se ha tramitado también por la vía de urgencia y los 'populares' have not submitted amendments.
The Justice Commission will designate the presentation this Monday and will debate the opposition's initiatives. The PSOE, United Left, the PNV, ERC, la Entesa y Amaiur han presentado sus propuestas de veto por el "mensaje de impunidad" que lanza a los criminales y el "escarnio" What does the retroactive archiving of ongoing investigations entail?.
The proposal to modify the Organic Law of the Judiciary has not passed through the Board of Spokespersons or the Senate Board, which is the usual procedure. Upon arrival processed urgently, It is the president of the Upper House who has the power to qualify the projects and process them; this has been the case.
If the proposal finally leaves the Upper House intact, will be published immediately in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and will file currently open cases that do not meet the new requirements, according to the single transitional provision.
The National Court investigates the murder of cameraman José Couso in Iraq under the principle of universal justice, Genocide in Tibet, the discovery of several graves in the Sahara with Spanish victims or the deaths of the Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuría or the diplomat Carmelo Soria. The PSOE has already announced an appeal of unconstitutionality against this rule for violating the right to effective judicial protection.
NEW LIMITS
The reform limits the prosecution of crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity to procedures that are directed against Spaniards or foreigners who have acquired nationality after committing the act or whose extradition has been denied..
The new article 23.4 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary eliminates the possibility of acting with a complaint or through a popular accusation, to limit its momentum to complaints filed by the aggrieved party or the Prosecutor's Office.
The extension of Spanish jurisdiction beyond our borders is conditional on the existence of an international treaty that authorizes it and the Statute of the International Criminal Court.. The opposition has criticized that some powers, like China or the United States, They have not ratified such conventions and it is impossible to prosecute their crimes.
The reform imposes new limits on Spanish judges and includes crimes of violence against women and domestic violence in the list of crimes to be prosecuted., torture or corruption of a foreign public agent.
It confers on the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court the power to assess the possibility that Spanish judges can hear the facts, in the event that the State is not carrying out an effective investigation of the same.
