The parliamentary groups of the opposition in the House of Representatives have been a total of 277 amendments to the two bills that the President Rajoy has presented himself in Thursday morning before the full House as its measures to combat political corruption: the draft organic law control the economic and financial activity of political parties and the draft law regulating the exercise of the high office of the General Administration.
These legislative initiatives have also been presented in a totally unusual way, several amendments to the EPP group itself that supports the Executive . Was the same president who Rajoy surprisingly announced these amendments s, which in particular have been 20; three of them to the project that regulates senior and 17 to the text on the financing of political parties.
In parallel, the most important parliamentary groups have also presented a lot of amendments to the current law of the Criminal Code after the government’s decision to open a reform of its current wording to increase penalties for those at immersed in political corruption case. In total there were 888 amendments, of which slightly more than a hundred has made them popular group and the other formations of the opposition.
In short, the measures proposed by the different parliamentary groups in their amendments are these:
Socialist Group (183 amendments)
– Democratizing the functioning of political parties, with the implementation of the primary system for choosing the top leaders
-. prohibit donations to parties of legal persons (ie companies) and notify the Court of Auditors exceeding EUR 25,000 individual donations.
– Remove the privilege of deputies, senators and officials to testify in their offices as witnesses in court cases
-. Set sentences between two and six years in prison for those managers parties from accepting donations outlawed and force them to return the money, with fines of up to six times the illegal entry. These measures will apply to those making illegal donations
-. Lowering a fraud from the current 120,000 euros to 50,000 euros as a limit beyond which is considered tax fraud
– Establish penalties from two to four years in prison for policymakers formations involved in the distortion of the official annual accounts to be published
-. Reform of various articles of the Penal Code Act aimed clarify criminal offenses related to corruption, increase existing penalties, extending the statute of limitations for crimes related to corruption and extend disqualification to hold public office those affected and the National Court is the instance to investigate and considers corruption offenses
Group Plural Left.
– Fix the public financing of political parties according to the votes received and no based on the seats awarded
-. Include foundations linked to parties in the criteria and limits to perceive subsidies and exclude legal entities (companies) as donors.
– Exclude properties donations and limit to 50,000 euros per year donations from individuals.
– Eliminate public subsidies to parties that have not submitted their annual accounts on time to the Court of Auditors.
– Limit 60% of the employee’s salary for one year termination benefits in a public activity, in cases provided by law, with a maximum of two years, provided that the salary received by the Prime Minister in that year is not exceeded .
– Increase to five years incompatibility for assignment to work in public or private companies in the same sector which has developed office.
– Post in the Official Gazette and on the website of each party’s internal audits of annual accounts
Group UPyD.
– Eliminate funding for postal items in electoral campaigns because currently only those formations that have parliamentary representation benefit, which is of dubious legitimacy.
– Refinement of the aspects to be included in the enactment of annual accounts of political parties, which in any case must contemplate finances all territorial structures, from Europe to the City of every party.
– Detailed list of reasons why those responsible of any political party loses the status of repute and hence the ability to perform their duties .
– Concentrate on the Court of Auditors exclusivity to monitor the finances of all political parties.
– This group argues that foundations with less than 600,000 euros of revenue in two years and who do not receive subsidies Public lie outside the control of the Court of Auditors.
-PNV Basque group:
– rigorous increase in annual accounts of all political parties. – Limit the Court of Auditors audit the finances of each party and not the management model to perform.
– Expand until June 30 the deadline to submit to the Court of Auditors the financial statements of each party.
– Change the composition of the Court of Auditors will have 12 members and at least one representative of each parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies, except the mixed
– Appearance of all political formations managers. before the Joint Committee Congress-Senate for the ECA if agreed not selectively depending on certain majorities. or tosdos or no
Meanwhile, the mixed group who has more amendments are presented ERC (the majority formation Amaiur has not submitted any). These include:
– Prohibit donations to political parties and their related foundations of legal persons for profit
– Publish on the website of every party account balances and results of each year..
– Travel in economy class for all types of public office, whatever the responsibility to play.
– Eliminate complimentary treatments for high public office.
– Delete the official cars as general rule:.. only allow those that are justified for reasons of safety or economic efficiency
– Limit salaries for any public office to which each year sees the Prime Minister
– Regular operation lobbies
Meanwhile, PP amendments to both government projects basically focus on the following:
– Prohibition. of party donations from legal persons and entities without legal personality
– Prohibition of forgiveness of debts that keep political parties with financial institutions. Neither will be allowed to negotiate loans on favorable terms compared to the market.
– Reduced € 50,000 limit on private donations from individuals as well as inform the Court of Auditors personalized all those individual donations exceeding 25,000 euros. The same grant shall be published on the website of the games.
– The parties must return to donors or to the Treasury sums improperly.
– Obligation to appear before the House of Representatives of the managers of parties after publication of the annual reports of the Court of Auditors. Also, a catalog of economic sanctions for serious, less serious and minor infringements of legal rules is established.
As for the senior, the amendments to the popular state that must submit a statement of assets and income to start your responsibility and at the end of it. It also defines more concretely labor incompatibilities in public or private companies belonging to the same economic sector positions for the following two years of leaving the function. From now on these two bills are processed, after the formation of the corresponding paper to “marry” amendments “to the Constitutional Commission;. The reform of the Penal Code will be discussed in the commission of Justice Subsequently, the process goes to the Senate .
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