VOX Senator Jacobo González-Robatto referred today to the need to adapt the Penal Code to face the separatist threat, which, he recalled, "Is still alive and encouraged by the Government of the Nation in an active way". This has been stated during the debate, in the Plenary of the Senate, of the Proposal of Organic Law of Modification of Organic Law 10/1995, of November 23 of the Penal Code, for which VOX has proposed a alternative text.
The senator has given the example of Portugal, where it is punished as traitor to the fatherland To who through usurpation or abuse of sovereign functions seeks, among other purposes, the separation of the Portuguese territory.
Thus, he denounced that in Spain "we continue to put obstacles to legislation knowing that those who support the socialist throne are none other than those who commit these crimes and have the little shame of calling it an attack against democracy, political prisoners and other nonsense."
The senator has denounced that the seriousness of this crime "has not found a correlative solution by the Law that responds in an effective, dissuasive and satisfactory manner", and has asked that the "new ways in which This crime has been carried out, which violates the essential elements of our coexistence and the constitutional order.
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In this way, he explained that »the new forms of uprising or rebellion that threaten our popular sovereignty make it more necessary than ever to reinforce the State in order to proportionally punish those who seek to end the constitutional order, since the crime rebellion is the gravest attack on the rule of law and democracy that can be committed.
During his speech at the Senate rostrum, he referred to the attempted secession of Catalonia in October 2017, an attempt and a coup “that could have been faced with the forcefulness that it required to have had the instruments and advances in this regard that they do present the criminal codes of other countries in our environment and yet they are non-existent in ours.
González-Robatto has lamented that "the indissoluble national unity, the solidarity between the regions and the constitutional loyalty implicit in our Constitution have been systematically ignored and mistreated", and explained that "it cannot become a bargaining chip or electoral merchandise for satisfy the wishes of those who base their political existence on the destruction of the nation and the breakdown of order that makes it possible for us to speak of a united and strong Spain in the face of those who want to destroy it.
“This happens,” the senator explained, “by making available to the Judiciary a legal system that guarantees foreseeable judicial decisions that are seen in society as fair and proportionate to the seriousness of the acts committed, and dissuading those who intend to terminate unilaterally with Spanish sovereignty, democracy or the indissoluble unity of the Nation through illegal procedures.
