PP and Vox recover amendments to the Projects Law despite the lawyers' warning

PalmNeither the lawyers' criticisms, nor the PSIB's opposition, nor the threat from MÉS to go to the Constitutional Court have stopped the PP and Vox in their attempt to modify 70 norms at once through the Law on strategic projects. The two parties have recovered, asserting their majority in the Parliament's Board, the hundred amendments (88 from the PP and 12 from Vox) that the Economy Commission's board rejected, considering that they had nothing to do with the object of the Law.

This is how the representatives of the groups explained it after the meeting of the Spokespersons Board. The PSIB deputy and member of the Board, Mercedes Garrido, has criticized this decision, insisting that the amendments presented by the two parties affect multiple areas of regional law, including the School Council, social aid, and the internalization of collection services. After this Thursday's meeting, the text recovers amendments that have nothing to do with the law of the PP, Vox, Unides Podem, and the non-attached deputy Agustín Buades. A part of the amendments from MÉS per Mallorca, some from the PSIB, and all from Més per Menorca are left out. In this regard, the left argues that its active amendments affect urgent issues, such as the social shield against the war in Iran, energy, and the taxi and VTC sector, while others on housing have been withdrawn.The Parliament's lawyers indicated that the processing of so many amendments through an omnibus law may infringe upon the deputies' representation rights, and that the justification by PP and Vox for including theirs did not meet the requirements of the regulations, Garrido stated. For his part, the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, lamented that the Board of Spokespersons had not taken into account the statement from the eco-sovereignists demanding that no amendment on another topic be admitted. Thus, he denounced a "violation of the rights of deputies" by the PP and Vox, and warned that if the Board does not address the statement, they will not hesitate to appeal to the Constitutional Court.

For their part, the deputy spokesperson for Vox in the Parliament, Sergio Rodríguez, has accused the PP and the PSIB of agreeing to the approval of a series of amendments to the law while others would have been left out of the process. Some, he pointed out, include a "salary increase for civil servants, management of reserves without budgets, and internalization of collection services." In his opinion, this agreement demonstrates "the partisan pincer movement that allows the PP to govern with more freedom," he criticized. The spokesperson for the PP, Sebastià Sagreras, attributed these accusations to a "need by Vox to try to assimilate the PP and the PSIB in the context of regional elections": "It responds to Vox's need to do politics."