Overview
- The PSOE filed an unconstitutionality appeal targeting the PP-backed Senate Rules revision approved in November with the conservatives’ absolute majority.
- The complaint alleges the PP inserted hidden amendments labeled as “technical corrections” that were neither debated nor voted in the Senate Plenary.
- The challenge focuses on new article 108.6, which enables the Senate to take conflicts of attribution to the Constitutional Court over what it deems unjustified delays by the Congress in processing Senate initiatives.
- It contests the creation of a “presumed veto” that treats an absolute-majority rejection in the Senate as equivalent to a formally approved veto.
- The appeal also objects to allowing a Senate committee to pass an unamended text from the Congress without a Plenary vote, and it arrives after multiple PP-led rule changes in this legislature, including one annulled by the Constitutional Court.