The Parliament’s Bureau approves the processing of the three laws to starting the disconnection process from Spain

Barcelona (CNA).- The Parliament’s Bureau accepted this Tuesday the application to start creating the necessary framework for the disconnection process to take place and will do so through joint presentation. The two main pro-independence forces in the Parliament, cross-party list ‘Junts Pel Sí’ and radical left CUP, are requesting the creation of three laws: one on social measures, a second on the Catalan tax office and a third on the legal transition. Anti-Catalan nationalism ‘Ciutadans’, the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) and the Catalan People’s Party (PPC) have urged the Bureau to reconsider the creation of the framework for the three disconnection laws to be launched, as they consider them not to be a project of consensus. According to them, the Parliament’s Bureau should comply with the legal services’ recommendation and process them through a bill rather than by joint presentation.

The votes of ‘Junts Pel Sí’ and CUP were enough for the Parliment’s Bureau to give the green light to the creation of the necessary framework for writing the three disconnection laws. Now it will be time for the Spokesperson Bureau to distribute the processing of the three laws amongst the different legislative committees. Representatives from the Parliament’s Bureau have assured that starting the processing of the three laws complies with the “formal requirements” established by the Catalan Chamber, although the Parliament’s legal services advised them against doing so.

The procedure suggested by ‘Junts Pel Sí’ and CUP for processing the laws is joint presentation, which would allow all the groups in the parliament to take part in the writing of these three laws, one on social measures, a second on the Catalan tax office and a third on the legal transition.However, Ciutadans, PSC and PPC expressed their opposition to the Parliament’s Bureau decision, as they consider such a procedure to be reserved for those projects which generate consensus amongst all the parliamentary groups and that this not the case of the laws for starting the disconnection process.

PSC MP Eva Granados described the decision as an “imposition” and accused the Parliament’s Bureau of behaving “arbitrarily” and without considering the recommendation of the Chamber’s legal services. According to Granados, there is not enough consensus amongst the parliamentary groups to start a joint presentation procedure.

PPC and Ciutadans have announced that they will present a writ of protection to the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC) if the Parliament’s Bureau doesn’t reconsider the decision to start processing the laws. Both parties have urged ‘Junts Pel Sí’ and CUP “not to force” those MPs which oppose the laws to take part in their writing. According to them, the Parliament’s Bureau should comply with the legal services’ recommendation and processing the laws through a bill rather than by joint presentation.