Overview

• The Partido Popular registered a proposición no de ley in Congress urging a reform of the 1870 pardon law to exclude terrorism, corruption, attacks on territorial integrity, offenses against the constitutional order, and crimes against minors.
• The initiative also seeks tighter oversight by the Congress when clemency involves current or former officeholders.
• PP deputy secretary Cuca Gamarra announced the move from Logroño following a Bilbao demonstration for ETA prisoners that went ahead after the Audiencia Nacional rejected an AVT request to ban it.
• Gamarra accused Pedro Sánchez of ceding Spain’s democratic memory to Bildu and called for repealing the 2022 Ley de Memoria Democrática in favor of a proposed law of concord.
• The PP further contends that the PSOE blocks Senate-approved measures in the lower house, citing a plan to bar convicted terrorists from appearing on electoral lists.