The amnesty will return to the Senate before the end of the year with the Debate on the state of the Autonomous Communities after 18 years

The PP leaves satisfied with its display of “territorial muscle” in the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities, but with the bittersweet feeling of having boxed in the mirror. Sin rival. The absence of the PSOE barons stole the hand-to-hand debate on the amnesty, so that the interventions of the 11 popular regional presidents, the presidents of Ceuta and Melilla and the vice president of the Canary Islands became a concatenation of speeches whose success was measured by accumulation, rather than by contrast.

Only the presence of Pere Aragonès offered any option for parliamentary fencing, but the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia wanted to show that he had nothing to debate with the leaders of the PP and left the forum as soon as he finished his speech.. In any case, in Genoa they are satisfied for two reasons. Firstly, because they believe they have stated more clearly than ever “that territorial power belongs to the PP” and that this is going to be the constant tone of the legislature.. The second, because “defending the equality of citizens before those who want privileges and doing so from the institutions, with a sense of state, shows that there is an alternative to Sánchez's souk.”

For this reason, the PP is not going to stop there and, as EL MUNDO has confirmed, it is going to resurrect the Debate on the state of the Autonomous Communities before the end of the year, most likely in November, according to the sources consulted.. This is a discussion forum that has not been convened since 2005.. 18 years later, the PP wants to use it as the second parliamentary battering ram against the amnesty, after yesterday's commission.

This debate, similar to the State of the Nation Debate held in Congress, but focused on territorial policies, has only been held three times so far, according to sources from the Upper House.. In 1994, with Felipe González; in 1997, with José María Aznar; and in 2005, with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The Senate Regulations establish that the General Commission of Autonomous Communities can hold, once a year, a Debate on the state of the autonomies. After this debate, the different parliamentary groups can present motions for debate in the Plenary Session of the Upper House.

On the three occasions in which it has been held, the format was the following: first, a debate session within the framework of the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities with the participation of the President of the Government and the regional presidents; and, later, a Plenary session dedicated to the debate and approval of motions resulting from the session held in the Commission.

Frontal opposition to the amnesty

With this decision – already firm – the popular people want to maintain their frontal opposition to the amnesty, especially at a time when the PSOE is negotiating its constitutional fit with Junts and ERC, as a key to access to the investiture.

The PP's plans are disrupted by the fact that the PSOE does not attend the Senate debates, like yesterday, which is why they are going to revive this obsolete format, since they believe that the president would be morally obliged to attend, since that is what they did. his two socialist predecessors, González and Zapatero. “It would have to come,” they categorically maintain in the popular parliamentary leadership.

«Aragonès has acted as a perfect spokesperson for Sánchez and has been clear about the referendum and that they are political prisoners.. The PSOE cannot remain silent in the face of this and leave it without responding,” they judge the leadership of the PP.. But the truth is that the socialists have avoided an uncomfortable debate that could not only harm them internally, but also make the investiture itself more expensive.. “It is evident that they cannot respond to Aragonès because they are assuming everything,” they conclude, in reference to the amnesty and the possibility of an agreed consultation.