Overview
- The Constitutional Court’s prosecutor has urged the court to grant the Popular Party’s appeal, saying the 71 extensions violated lawmakers’ rights under Article 23.2 and the public’s right to political participation.
- The challenge targets the Congress board’s repeated, unreasoned renewals of the amendment window for Royal Decree‑Law 36/2020, a measure tied to EU recovery funds and the modernization of Spain’s public administration.
- The prosecutor describes a mechanical use of extensions that kept the bill from reaching committee, preserved the government’s original text, and brushed aside the PP’s formal request for reconsideration.
- The full court plans to deliberate and vote soon, with magistrate Enrique Arnaldo as rapporteur, and any ruling would be largely declaratory because the contested actions took place in the prior legislature.
- The case lands within a wider fight over procedural power in the Cortes, with ABC reporting separate Senate clashes over government vetoes of amendments and noting a 2025 court ruling that such vetoes must show a real, immediate hit to the current budget.