The Senate is ready to fight the battle against Congress and the government until the end. Tomorrow, for the seventh time so far, this term will spark a new struggle over powers before the Constitutional Court in a thorny issue in Parliament. … Two different rights conflict: the right of the government to veto amendments when they involve an increase in spending or a decrease in income, and the right of representatives to rule on those approved by the Senate on a bill or bill.
This time, the text in dispute is the Sustainable Mobility Law, which was finally approved by the plenary session of the House of Representatives on November 13, but without their honorees being able to take a position on the two amendments approved by the Senate as stipulated in Article 90.2 of the Constitution.
During processing in the Senate, the government requested a veto of these two amendments, claiming that they affected the budgets, but the Council of the said institution ignored the difference of executive power, considering it excessive. Already in Congress, the administrative body of the House of Representatives removed the two changes from voting despite having received the green light in the regional chamber.
It is exactly the same thing that has already happened with the Food Waste Law, where the PP, ERC and Junts requested an agenda amendment to delay discussion until the table decided on their written complaints, but where Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Selis, ignoring the letter of the Congressional regulations, prevented the plenary from taking a position on the matter. There is also precedent with another amendment being overturned “retrospectively” in the Air Navigation Act. Cases are piling up before the Constitutional Court, which must set standards.
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