{"id":37278,"date":"2018-08-23T21:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=37278"},"modified":"2018-08-23T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:28:39","slug":"socialists-deny-that-the-senate-represents-the-spaniards-this-is-what-the-constitution-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/08\/23\/socialists-deny-that-the-senate-represents-the-spaniards-this-is-what-the-constitution-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists Deny That the Senate Represents the Spaniards: This is What the Constitution Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pact of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and the far-leftist Podemos to bypass the control of the Senate<\/a>, violating the Constitution bluntly, has been defended in La Sexta by Adriana Lastra, socialist spokesman in Congress.<\/p>\n

Leftist coup to democracy in Spain: they will remove Senate control by decree<\/a><\/rel>
\nSpanish socialists want to punish the defense of nazism and fascism, but not communism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

\"National sovereignty belongs to the Spanish people\"<\/big><\/p>\n

Demonstrating absolute ignorance about what the Spanish Constitution affirms, Lastra has denounced as \"undemocratic\" that the Upper House has \"veto power over a decision of Congress, where national sovereignty resides\"<\/em><\/strong> (you can see the video here<\/a>, from the minute 3:43). The socialist spokeswoman should review what the Spanish Constitution says<\/a>. To begin with, national sovereignty does not reside in Congress, but in \"the Spanish people, from whom all State powers emanate\"<\/em><\/strong> (Article 1.2). It is a very important nuance: the Congress and the Senate exercise a function of representation, but sovereignty resides in the people, not in their politicians.<\/p>\n

\"The Cortes Generales represent the Spanish people and consist of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate<\/u>\"<\/big><\/p>\n

Likewise, it seems that Lastra has not read Article 66: \"The Cortes Generales represent the Spanish people and consist of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate<\/u>.<\/strong>\"<\/em> That same article recalls that the Cortes, that is, both the Congress and the Senate, \"exercise the legislative power of the State, approve its Budget\"<\/em> and \"control Government action.\"<\/em> It is this task of control that socialists and communists want to get round, simply because they do not have a majority in the Senate.<\/strong> An attitude of people who have no respect for democratic rules.<\/p>\n

Modifying an organic law with a decree-law is unconstitutional<\/big><\/p>\n

On the other hand, we must remember that the Law of Budgetary Stability not only grants veto power to the Senate, but also to Congress.<\/strong> Article 15.6 says: \"If the Congress of Deputies or the Senate reject the objectives, the Government, within a maximum period of one month, will send a new agreement that will be subject to the same procedure.\"<\/em> In addition, that law was approved in Congress with 192 votes in favor, 116 against and four abstentions.<\/a> A majority that the PSOE and its allies do not have today. To annul an organic law through a decree-law is unconstitutional, as indicated in Article 86 of the Constitution and as ratified by the Constitutional Court in its judgment 60\/1986<\/a>. If that constitutional prohibition is ignored, the Government could be accused of a crime of prevarication.<\/strong> It can not be expected that a government that does not respect the Constitution will show respect for a lower-ranking norm such as the Penal Code. It is their problem. In Spain there are judges willing to send politicians to prison if they break the law<\/strong>, as the Supreme Court has already demonstrated with the Catalan coup leaders.<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Senado.es)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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