Tuesday, February 3, 2015 | 9:36 a.m.
The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE) -the largest opposition force, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday 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 that is embodied in a bill that this Tuesday reach the Congress of Deputies for parliamentary debate.
The agreement includes the “revisable permanent prison” , to which had opposed the PSOE, whose leader 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 the “best legal and operational tools” to defend the freedoms the “greatest threat of our time” said Rajoy on the agreement at a press conference together with the socialist leader.
“What is born today is a renewed determination maintain unity unreserved Democrats against terrorism “ said Rajoy, who insisted that PSOE government and open” wide “this agreement to other political forces, to join him.
Meanwhile, the leader of the PSOE highlighted the “essential unity” that should exist between political forces in the fight against terrorism.
Like Rajoy, Sanchez invited the other parliamentary groups to join the agreement to include “commitments”, which he said “we all share.”
The agreement amends the Criminal Code relating to terrorist offenses including changes in penalties.
This is one of the major anti-terrorism agreements reached 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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