Overview
- An extraordinary Presidency commission is set for Thursday to enable initial approval, with a full council vote planned for December 19.
- The overhaul raises penalties for public drinking, illegal street vending and organized bar crawls to as much as €3,000, and requires graffiti offenders to help clean up.
- Junts claims the PSC accepted all 12 of its proposals, while La Vanguardia reports one was excluded involving references to incivism in migrants’ arraigo documentation.
- The PSC and Junts hold a 21-seat majority that can carry the reform; ERC is negotiating changes such as prioritizing mediation and delinking arraigo from incivism and is reported by El País as expected to support the text.
- Junts highlights weak enforcement—only 16% of fines collected over the past two years—and the reform adds mechanisms to improve collection, including cooperation to recover fines from foreign offenders.