MÉS slows down the express debate of the omnibus law: "If the citizens saw how rotten 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 intention to process the omnibus law in the plenary session before the procedure completes all steps in parliamentary committee. "They are laughing at parliamentarism," lamented the eco-sovereignist leader, Lluís Apesteguia. "If the citizens saw how 'shabby' the Parliament is, they would put their hands on their heads," lamented the Menorcanist Josep Castells on his part.

Before submitting a legislative project to the plenary session, 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 PP, PSIB, and Vox, who introduced several amendments to the text, were in favor of voting on the norm in the plenary session before the report is finalized. "They think the Parliament is their playground," criticized Castells. The deputy referred to the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne: "I was reading 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 stated it perfectly." Finally, the legal advisors sided with the Menorcan and prevented the matter from being included in the agenda. Nevertheless, the parties will convene an extraordinary Board of Spokespersons when the report arrives to try to force the debate in next Tuesday's plenary session. "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 committee meeting. "It was shameful," he lamented: "The groups that amended the text were incapable of explaining their own amendments, the report from the drafting committee does not exist, and it is mocking God, the party, and parliamentarism." MÉS has requested a report from the legal advisors on the situation that occurred in the committee and has submitted a report for the law to be voted on article by article, given that many touch on different issues.

Agreements of PP 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 for immigrants to access the Guaranteed Social Income (Resoga) and the creation of an anti-squatting office. Vox boasted of having been able to incorporate these amendments, in addition to a tax reduction for maternity. The flexibilization 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 to the agreements between the PSIB and the PP have also been introduced into the text so that the Tax Agency of the Balearic Islands assumes tax collection, the possibility for the Government to sanction VTC platforms, as well as the creation of an autonomous registry of beneficiaries of limited-price housing.

The PSIB spokesperson, 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 PP spokesperson, Sebastià Sagreras, justified that "simply a meeting and a spokesperson's board will be held next Friday at noon to modify the plenary's agenda or to 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 Children's Law that prevents teachers with records of harassment from practicing again, after the case of the teacher Miquel Roldán.