LATEST: Armengol will tighten the Regulations and include attacks by deputies outside the chamber: “We are afraid”
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“It is something unprecedented, things are being seen that have not been seen in 40 years,” they say in the PSOE. In Sumar they also highlight the anxiety caused by the attitudes of “some gentlemen” from Santiago Abascal’s party. Although the incident involving deputy José María Sánchez did not escalate, the socialists have asked for measures to be adopted and Congress, always closer to political theater than to institutional calm, is once again reviewing its own Regulations. Thus, President Francina Armengol has proposed to political spokespersons a tightening of its internal regulations so that the Lower House “has a more effective tool to respond to situations of conflict” and to “improve coexistence in the parliamentary chamber.”In the environment of They claim from Celis that last Tuesday he prepared himself “for a slap,” after seeing the Vox deputy take the stand to complain about some insults that had allegedly been hurled at him from the ERC bench. Those around the presidency of the Chamber remember that, currently, the Regulations do not include tools to sanction a deputy if he attacks another outside the chamber, even within the facilities of Congress. In that case, they would have to resort to the Penal Code. Now, the Regulations contemplate the possibility of expelling for one month – extendable up to six months if the Board agrees – those deputies “who disturb order within Congress.” This is article 106, which must be invoked at the moment. During last week’s incident, Gómez de Celis applied article 104, which establishes that if a speaker is called to order three times in the same session, his speech will be withdrawn and he may be expelled. Although, later, the idea of imposing a sanction on the Vox deputy was considered, they found themselves unable to do so retroactively. During the past week, deputies such as the spokesperson of the PSOE, Patxi López, even compared Sánchez’s behavior with the coup leader Antonio Tejero. “We want to go further with the sanctions,” he says now. The idea of this reform was conceived in an agreement between PSOE and Sumar at the Congress Table. The text was included in the agenda at ten o’clock at night on Monday. Rejection of the PP proposal Upon learning of this fact, the PP presented an alternative proposal, in which it condemns “in the strongest terms” Sánchez’s actions, but instead of a reform it asks to “urge the Presidency of the Chamber to carry out an action aimed at complying with and enforcing the Constitution and the Regulations using the tools provided therein.” The initiative was rejected by PSOE and Sumar, without reaching debate. The PP believes that this shows that Armengol did not want to reach any type of agreement. The left, for its part, accused the PP of having rejected the sentence of the deputy, although the PP only rejected the reform of the Regulation. Armengol took the initiative to tighten the Regulation to the Board of Spokespersons this Tuesday. It was a long meeting, 50 minutes, when it is normally held in 20. All parties, except PP and Vox, supported the text of the Table to reform the Regulations. Something that already happened a few months ago when it was changed to be able to expel journalists who do not maintain decorum at press conferences. Just like now, the PSOE took the lead and the rest of the partners joined in.
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