The PP will launch a battery of measures against the amnesty in the Senate just before Sánchez's inauguration
The Popular Party's plan against the possible amnesty largely depends on the mixture of its territorial power and its parliamentary power.. Both will go hand in hand in the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities of the Senate, which has already been established and which the popular ones want to turn into the main battering ram and “retaining dam” against the amnesty.. In fact, the Upper House Table, controlled by the PP, plans to convene this commission just before Pedro Sánchez's investiture session, which does not yet have a date but is expected in mid-November.
The key for the popular is to exercise preventive opposition from the institutions. And not only with his absolute majority in the Senate, but with the speeches of 11 regional presidents of his party. Above all, those who achieved an absolute majority and have the greatest projection: Juanma Moreno and Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
In addition, this commission will help the PP to propose a battery of measures against the possible amnesty for the crimes of the process. In fact, from this body you can “exercise the legislative initiative, through law proposals”, as well as “propose motions to the Senate Plenary regarding matters within its jurisdiction” and even present them after the debate itself, as specified in the Regulations of the Senate. High camera.
And the PP wants to activate, according to sources in Genoa, “all” the possibilities, to make the Senate a torture rack for the Government's plans.. First, against the amnesty, then, as a battering ram of the opposition, if Sánchez's investiture is consummated: “We are going to use our power in the Senate to portray the PSOE.”
That is what the popular ones want to do: force the three regional presidents of the PSOE to get wet about the possibility of wiping the slate clean for the independence leaders who declared the independence of Catalonia in 2017 or who participated in crimes already tried to try to achieve the secession.
But Emiliano García-Page (Castilla-La Mancha), María Chivite (Navarra) and Adrián Barbón (Asturias) can delegate to their vice presidents or even to a counselor. Pere Aragonès and Iñigo Urkullu are also not expected to attend. Furthermore, the Government always elects a representative to defend its position.
From the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities will not only come the photo of the presidents of the PP devoted to an univocal “no” to the amnesty, but the PP is also studying to prepare a document that would be put to a vote. And to maintain cruising speed against the Government's plans, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team is also considering calling the Debate on the state of the autonomous communities, as this newspaper has learned.
The popular ones are going to mobilize “by land, sea and air” and are going to step on the legislative accelerator in the Senate and from the regional parliaments. All with the same premise: “Defend the equality of all Spaniards before the law,” according to sources from the party leadership.
The commission has already been established and it only needs to be activated when the Senate Board decides.. As the PP has a majority, it will do so when the investiture and the amnesty debate are close. In fact, the Popular Party thought about activating this parliamentary trick next week, but they are going to postpone it, since Sánchez's negotiations with the independentists have entered an anti-cyclical phase, without much hurry.
The president of the commission will be Luisa Fernanda Rudi (former president of the Congress and the government of Aragon) as president. The senator for Toledo Vicente Tirado will be the first vice president. And Toño Silván (León) will act as spokesperson, with members such as the former vice president of the Government Javier Arenas, María José García-Pelayo (president of the FEMP and mayor of Jerez de la Frontera), Alfonso Serrano (Ayuso's right-hand man), the Galician senator José Manuel Barreeiro or the mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero, among others.
Everyone will focus on trying to stop or hinder the amnesty. Just yesterday, Cuca Gamarra stated his position in a press conference: «Spanish society is subject to a Spaniard who wants to return and a Spaniard who wants to stay in power.. We talk about the impunity of one in exchange for the presidency of the Government of another. This is the only thing that is negotiated and for which the rest of the 48 million Spaniards have more than enough. Amnesty yes, amnesty no, that's all they talk about.