The outcry of the right in Congress does not stop the repeal of the crime of sedition

The repeal of the crime of sedition and its replacement by that of aggravated public disorder makes its way through Congress despite the shouting of the benches of the PP, Vox and Cs to prevent it. The legislative text promoted by the government parties, PSOE and United We Can, following an agreement with ERC, begins its processing in the Lower House with the intention that it be approved before the end of the year. That is why it was also requested to be processed by the urgent procedure.

The consideration of the reform of the Penal Code has received the endorsement of a broad parliamentary majority (187 votes in favour, 155 against and 6 abstentions), which includes groups from different ideological spectrums, and after a long call vote which has already finished at dawn on Friday. And it is that, this form of vote was requested by the PP to “portray” the deputies of the PSOE in the framework of its latest signaling strategy, which tried to seek the turncoat among those of Pedro Sánchez.

It hasn’t been like that. In fact, the first socialist deputy to pronounce the Yes from his seat, Immaculate Oriahas pointed out: “Here we are all the socialists together, without fissures”, while the rest of his colleagues have stood up to “show the unity of the socialist group, despite the accusations experienced in recent days” , later added the party in a statement.

During the debate on the norm, which began around 10 p.m. after a long day of Budgeting, the representatives of the proponent groups have valued the reform, an “update linked to social changes”, as the deputy has pointed out socialist Francisco Arandaand a “victory of democracy”, as the president of the purple group has insisted, Jaume Asens.

With a higher tone than usual due to the PP’s attacks on the reform (and Cs and Vox), which attributes the repeal of sedition to “the Government’s payment to the Catalan independence movement with the law of all and in exchange for equality of all Spaniards before the law”, as the popular spokesperson has pointed out, Cuca Gamarraboth parliamentarians have criticized the partisan use of the right on the political conflict in Catalonia.

In this sense, Aranda has highlighted that, since Sánchez’s arrival at Moncloa in 2018, “Catalans are less and less interested in independence, political and social tension has decreased, and the main shared axis is coexistence” . “With you, confrontation and past; with us, coexistence and future”, he has riveted.

Asens has also made reference to the latter, adding that the measure is “an important step to take the Catalan political conflict out of court, a demand of the Catalan social majority that wants to turn the page.” But he has also emphasized what the reform of the Penal Code entails, since the crime of sedition, drafted in 1892, is a “relic of the past full of dust”, an “unconstitutional anomaly”, “does not meet the standards” of European countries and, finally, constitutes “a threat to the right to protest and to demonstrate”.

Regarding this point, he has denied the criticisms made by the pro-independence sector opposed to the reform, led by Junts and the ANC, who are also supported by lawyers and social groups (it is considered that the new wording of the crime of public disorder endangers peaceful disobedience). “We come from social movements, we have been working in anti-repressive movements for decades, so we must remember,” Asens added.

The truth is that, although the measure has also been positively assessed by the PNV, PDeCAT, EH Bildu, Más País or Compromís as it moves “in the right direction”, several spokespersons have shared the risks transferred by social movements and have warned that they will be pending during the processing of the norm so as not to give room for the “crooked interpretation of the judges”, as the deputy of the abertzale coalition has defended, Jon Inarritu. That is, that the new law does not affect the right to peaceful protest and does not reduce any rights.

An issue that has gone almost unnoticed is the possible embezzlement reformwhich ERC put on the table to dissect it within the derogation of the crime of sedition. Neither the Republicans nor other forces in favor of this reform have mentioned the crime of embezzlement since ERC has put this issue aside, at least for now, as it is a complex issue.

Cuca Gamarra has brought it up, although the complaints of the right-wing bench have focused on Pedro Sánchez, whom they accuse of “dismantling the State”, and the Socialists, who “will break with the word they gave their voters, betraying the trust they placed in each one” of them. The representatives of Vox and Cs have followed the same trail. But his opposition to the norm has not prevented him from making his way in the Lower House.

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