This Saturday, the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the law on the exchange of criminal records and consideration of judicial resolutions in the EU, a rule that will allow some ETA terrorists to be released from prison early by taking into account sentences previously served in France.
The PP has advanced that the Senate, where the party has an absolute majority, will present a conflict of powers before the Constitutional Court, since, in its opinion, the rejection of the law by the plenary session of the Upper House should be understood as a “veto” and Congress should have voted on the initiative again.
The Lower House, however, approved it without putting it to a vote and the rule was sent to the BOE where, as required, it is published with the signatures of King Felipe VI and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
As established in its sixth final provision, it will come into force twenty days after its appearance in the BOE.
The Constitution establishes in its article 91 that “the King will sanction the laws approved by the Cortes Generales within fifteen days, and will promulgate them and order their immediate publication.”
In the text published this Saturday in the BOE, Felipe VI points out: “To all who see and understand this present. Know: That the Cortes Generales have approved and I come to sanction the following organic law.”
And the norm has thus been promulgated, despite the fact that the Senate considers that its processing had not yet been completed.
On Friday, the PP announced that it had registered a document in the Senate to formally request a rectification from the Congressional Board, a prior step to presenting a conflict of powers before the Constitutional Court, something unprecedented between the two legislative chambers.
The provision that will allow terrorists to accumulate sentences served in a European country and count them to be released from prison earlier was incorporated into the bill during its processing in Congress, thanks to an amendment by Sumar.
The PP maintains that it supported the text by mistake, but when it realized this it was already too late and there was no possibility of amending it in the Senate