EL UNIVERSAL
Tuesday February 3, 2015 12:00 AM
“Today we send a clear message to radical: the Spanish society is cohesive around their freedom,” Rajoy said after signing the agreement in the Moncloa Palace, DPA said.
This is the first state pact between Rajoy and Sánchez, General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) for six months. Tuesday will be registered in the Chamber of Deputies for parliamentary procedure, with a view to the entry into force expected before summer Spanish.
The most critical parliamentary groups have been excluded from the pact.
The application of life imprisonment, which so far does not exist in Spain, has been the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations of the covenant, which were launched in the wake of the January attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo .
The Socialist Party opposes the “revisable permanent prison”, a figure that in practice introduce life imprisonment in Spain when the reform of the Penal Code which is pending approval.
Government and socialist overcame the obstacle with a formula that refers indirectly to the implementation of that figure form when approved and a clause that indicates that the PSOE revoked if rules. In that case, the PP is committed to keeping the covenant.
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