The CUP demands in an alternative law text that sedition be repealed and also the ‘gag law’

The CUP has registered this Tuesday a full amendment with alternate text to the reform of the Criminal Code that repeals the crime of sedition and replaces it with that of aggravated public disorder, a rule proposed by PSOE and Unidas Podemos, agreed with ERC, which made its way last Thursday in Congress after a marathon day.

As you have had access Publicthe anti-capitalist formation centers its proposal on two basic ideas: repeal the crime of sedition “without compensation for the already controversial reform of the Penal Code of the PP of 2015”, that is, without replacing it with any other concept, and repeal in its entirety the Law for the Protection of Citizen Security, known as gag law. Regarding the latter, it should be noted that his reform is currently entrenched in Congress, despite being one of the main pending accounts of the Executive since the beginning of the legislature.

This amendment, which will be debated and voted on in the Lower House this Thursday along with other alternative texts registered by the PP, Vox, Cs and Junts, as confirmed by CUP sources, includes the concern of the United Nations Human Rights Committee around the “deterrent effect” of the lhey gag for freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.

In this sense, said concern “remains valid today, and is extended” to the reform of the Penal Code proposed by the government parties, “which uses the bullying concept together with that of violence, without defining what it consists of and contravening the principle of exhaustiveness that any norm must have”, they add in the amendment.

“This lack of strictness can be translated into the violation of fundamental rights of meeting, demonstration and protest, in a context of unprecedented economic, social and health crisis”, states the CUP in its alternative text. Likewise, it understands that the current bill, “as the PP did in 2015”, makes “a reform ad hoc of the Penal Code to be able persecute the independence movement and its massive demonstrations, How was the Democratic Tsunamiusing it as a pretext to shield state institutions in the event of an outbreak of protest,” reads the text.

The CUP justifies its amendment to the entirety in that the right to protest“far from being an impediment to the exercise of democracy and government, it is a fundamental right and cornerstone of democratic systems. It understands that political participation is not reduced to voting, that it includes many forms of expression and intervention, and that it serves to transform, to force public powers to account and to act as a counterpower to possible excesses of the same”.

Also, he adds that the protest must be “disruptive”, and the legislation must incorporate not only the possibility of “altering the normal functioning of the public space, but also civil disobedience, as a practice in itself”, settle the cupaire.

The deadline for registering the amendments in full has ended on Tuesday, while partial corrections may be submitted until December 9 as the deadline. These times are part of the express processing of the law approved by the congressional table so that the repeal of sedition is in force before 2023.

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