The deputies Marina Geli and Núria Ventura 9N support … – Washington Post

The deputies Marina Geli and Núria Ventura 9N support … – Washington Post

The non-sanctioned match although it did so in the past for the same reason

BARCELONA, 17 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The PSC deputies in the Parliament and Núria Ventura Marina Geli have distanced Wednesday discipline group vote and voted in favor of a resolution supporting the 9N consultation, while the rest of Socialist deputies voted . against

is the third time that both distance themselves from voting discipline: the first was in early 2013 with a vote on the declaration of sovereignty, and the second in early 2014 with the proposition . law to require the State to authorize consultation

With the declaration of sovereignty, the PSC voted against Geli and while Ventura did not vote despite being in the Chamber; with the request to authorize the State of the consultation, the PSC again voted against, while the two deputies did a favor.

Speaking to reporters from the halls of Parliament, spokesman PSC in the House, Maurici Lucena, announced that the party will not sanction the two parliamentary, which it did in the past when they did not respect the direction of the vote for the Socialist group.

Lucena has argued that two have voted in line with the past when already supported the query itself from the group, so it’s nothing new. “Socialist group understands that there will be sanctions because these decisions have already been sanctioned in the past”

The change of position of the PSC not to punish wayward deputies coincides with the change of leader in the party and the parliamentary group in late July Miquel Iceta took the reins in place of Pere Navarro, who resigned after debacle of the European elections.

THANK GESTURE

also told reporters, Ventura and Geli have appreciated the gesture of the new socialist direction, and have claimed that they have always argued that its differentiated position should not be punished because it is not a disciplinary issue.

Geli has insisted that their vote to support the consultation all they do is show that in the Catalan socialism “varieties” because some social areas support the November 9 is raised as though the PSC reject it.

Ventura has held that the party has finally managed “factly internal plurality that exists within the PSC, and this in itself is very positive, “and pointed out that the socialist group voted joined other resolutions-more than a hundred -.

COMMISSION OF WARRANTIES

Geli and Ventura were expedientadas provisionally by the Commission for the Right of the party the second time he bucked voting discipline, which led them to be suspended from their executive positions in the party and in the group.

Sources socialists have explained that, after the change of leadership in the party, the two cases were filed and a letter was sent to the two deputies reporting this summer.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, REJECTED

In addition, the Parliament rejected the draft resolution submitted by the PSC advocating constitutional reform to improve the Catalan fit with the rest of Spain and moving towards a “federal state” that recognizes their nations , nationalities and regions

The proposal has been the sole support of the Socialists, the abstention of ICV-EUiA and Deputy Joan Ignasi Elena not assigned, and the rejection of other parties in the House. CiU , ERC, PP and C’s.