Madrid, February 2 (EFE) .- The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE) -the largest opposition force, Pedro Sánchez, today signed an agreement against jihadist terrorism including the “revisable permanent prison.”
This is the “Agreement to strengthen unity in defense of freedom and the fight against terrorism,” which both parties have signed in a ceremony and It is embodied in a bill that Tuesday will come to the Congress of Deputies for parliamentary debate.
The agreement includes the “revisable permanent prison”, to which he had opposed the PSOE, whose leader He promised to change it when you have the necessary parliamentary majority to do so.
It is a “clear message” to the radicals and gives Spain “best legal and operational tools” to defend the liberties of the “greatest threat nowadays, “said Rajoy on the agreement in a press conference together with the socialist leader.
” What is born today is a renewed determination to maintain unity unreserved Democrats against terrorism ” said Rajoy, who insisted that PSOE government and open “wide” this agreement to other political forces to join it.
Meanwhile, PSOE leader stressed the “essential unity” that must exist between the political forces in the fight against terrorism.
As Rajoy, Sanchez invited the other parliamentary groups to join the agreement to include “commitments”, which he said “We can all share.”
The agreement amends the Criminal Code relating to terrorist offenses, including changes in penalties.
This is one of the major agreements reached against terrorism by the two major parties in Spain in the last 27 years. The first was reached in 1987 after a bloody assault in a supermarket in Barcelona perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA. EFE
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