This Tuesday, the Hay Derecho Foundation brought to Congress the 101,000 signatures that it has gathered in recent weeks against the proposed amnesty law agreed between the PSOE and Junts. At the doors of the Lower House, their representatives have explained the reasons that led them to undertake the collection of support.
It poses a risk to the principle of separation of powers, the equality of all citizens before the law and questions the very reality of the Rule of Law in Spain by assuming the independence narrative, the foundation states.
“The focus has not been on the general interest, but only on the needs of short-term electoral arithmetic in exchange for votes from a minority party,” said its general director, Sapphire Cornersbefore entering the congress to take the signatures to the registry.
Hay Derecho has also requested by letter to all the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups to be able to appear in a parliamentary commission to explain its initiative, a way to “open a plural and constructive debate on the defense of the social and democratic State of Law and the limits of political agreements in a democracy”.
The foundation regrets that the Board chaired by the socialist Francina Armengol agree to urgently process an organic law of such relevance: “It is very anomalous that a bill of this importance is not being negotiated in parliament, but outside our borders. The debate has to be done in the institutions and what is not can be understood is that a bill arrives ready-made and agreed upon by the people who are going to benefit,” explained the general secretary of the Hay Derecho Foundation, Elisa de la Nuez.