Spanish right register total amendments to amnesty law

Spanish right-wing parties have submitted total amendment proposals to the Socialists' amnesty bill that would benefit Catalan pro-independence figures.

The conservative People's Party have registered their proposal to the bill which would create a crime of "constitutional disloyalty," punishing authorities and public officials which seek to promote illegal referendums which aim at "harming the unity of Spain," according to PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado.

The text says it is necessary to criminalize declarations of independence and illegal referendums or consultations, and promotes the dissolution of organizations or legal entities that commit any of these acts.

The amendment will be debated next Wednesday in the Spanish Congress, along with the total amendment proposal of the far-right Vox, also put forward on Wednesday.

Vox's bill proposes outlawing pro-independence groups and criminalizing negotiations with convicted, prosecuted or fugitives of justice for crimes against the Constitution, public order, treason or against the independence of the state, and "national defense."

It's expected that both the PP's and Vox's amendment proposals will be rejected with 178 votes against from the Socialists, Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNB and BNG.

The PP takes the defeat for granted, but according to Tellado, this "is not the end of the process" but rather "the starting point of a political, social and legal activity" of the conservatives to "rearm the state" and "stop and reverse the damage that pro-independence parties and the Socailists are doing to the country."