MORE slows down the express debate of the omnibus law: "If the citizenry saw how shabby Parliament is, they would put their hands on their heads"

PalmaMÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca have this Wednesday halted the PP, PSIB and Vox's bid to process the omnibus law in the plenary session before the procedure completes all stages in parliamentary committee. "They are laughing at parliamentarism," lamented the eco-sovereignist leader, Lluís Apesteguia. "If the citizens saw how 'shabby' Parliament is, they would put their hands on their heads," lamented the Menorcanist Josep Castells.

Before submitting a legislative project to the plenary, it is necessary to publish a report that includes both the legislative initiative and all approved amendments. However, as the two spokespersons explained, the majority of the PP, PSIB, and Vox, who have introduced several amendments to the text, were in favor of voting on the norm in the plenary before the report is finished. "They think the Parliament is their playground," criticized Castells. The deputy referred to the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne: "I read him the article of the regulations that says a debate cannot take place until the report is done, and he said, let's vote on it, when the regulations clearly stated it." Finally, the legal advisors sided with the Menorcan and prevented the matter from being added to the agenda. However, the parties will convene an extraordinary Board of Spokespersons when the report arrives to try to force the debate in next Tuesday's plenary. "The Government uses Parliament and the legislative process as a kind of formality for its wishes to come true," he said.

In the same vein, Apesteguia called for watching the video of the commission meeting. "It was shameful," he lamented: "The groups that amended the text were incapable of explaining their own amendments, the report of the working group does not exist, and it is making a mockery of the sacred, the celebration, and parliamentarism." MÉS has requested a report from the legal advisors on the situation that occurred in the commission and has presented a report so that the law is voted on article by article, given that many touch upon different issues.

PP's pacts with Vox and PSIB

During the commission of the bill to accelerate strategic projects, known as the omnibus law, because the PP introduced about eighty amendments, many on other topics, as a result of agreements with Vox, restrictions were incorporated to access the Guaranteed Social Income (Resoga) for immigrants and the creation of an anti-occupation office. Vox boasted of having been able to incorporate these amendments, in addition to a tax reduction for maternity. The flexibility of the linguistic requirement to access a position in public service, the reservation of Local Police positions for professional military personnel, and the streamlining of commercial projects through urban planning collaborating entities have also been accepted.

Amendments have also been introduced into the text from the agreements between the PSIB and the PP for the Tax Agency of the Balearic Islands to assume tax collection, the possibility for the Government to sanction VTC platforms, that the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) can finance public housing, and that a regional register of beneficiaries of limited-price housing be created.

The spokesperson for the PSIB, Iago Negueruela, justified that the fact of voting on the law next Tuesday or the following one "changes nothing." "There are issues that we want to debate as soon as possible due to the reality of the situation and to also campaign on what the PP wants to approve," he defended. The spokesperson for the PP, Sebastià Sagreras, justified that "a committee and a spokespersons' meeting will simply be held next Friday at noon to modify the agenda of the plenary session or convene another one afterwards," so the debate will likely be introduced.

On the other hand, the groups have agreed to introduce a modification to the Childhood Law that prevents teachers with a history of harassment from practicing again, after the case of the teacher Miquel Roldán.