(Politics) The Government rules out the reform of the crimes of rebellion, sedition and insults to the Crown

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The Council of Ministers includes up to 368 regulatory proposals in its planning for 2022, among which it does not incorporate the planned revisions of the Penal Code

The Government rules out once again facing this year, and perhaps already definitively, a reform of the Penal Code that reduces the penalties imposed for the crimes of rebellion, sedition and insults to the Crown. This has been confirmed this Tuesday by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, after the Council of Ministers today approved its regulatory plan for this year 2022, which does not contemplate addressing the aforementioned legislative reforms. The President of the Government himself, Pedro Sánchez, wanted to accelerate the project to reduce the crime of sedition, for which the procés pro-independence leaders were already pardoned, and incorporated it at the last minute in the Executive's regulatory planning before it concluded the year 2020. However, the initiative was put on hold, according to the Government, due to the absence of a parliamentary majority to support said project. The reform of sedition has already been left out of the regulatory plan for 2021, and now also for 2022.

The Minister of the Presidency has justified that the new calendar and regulatory plan approved today in the first Council of Ministers of the year - and that includes up to 368 legislative proposals to be approved during 2022, around one per day throughout the year - establishes the “priorities” of the Government for this second half of the legislature, among which the fundamental objective is the consolidation of economic growth, the reinforcement of the welfare state and the expansion of rights and freedoms.

“2022 is considered a very important year for the economic recovery of the country. We are tackling a challenge that has historical significance, which is to carry out a second economic modernization of our country, ”explained Bolaños. "And as we are a progressive and social democratic government, comparable with any European government, we want to continue deepening the advancement of rights and freedoms, to improve people's lives. These are the priorities ”, said the minister.

And these priorities, according to Bolaños' argument, imply that there are regulations that are aligned with these strategic axes and that are incorporated into the 2022 regulatory plan. "And other regulations are not in the annual regulatory plan, for example the reform of the Penal Code ”, Has settled the Minister of the Presidency.

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