The Constitutional rejects Vox's request to suspend the labor reform

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, and the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, after the approval in Congress of the labor reform on February 3. Alejandro Martínez Vélez (Europa Press)

The Constitutional Court has rejected Vox's request to suspend the labor reform approved by Congress on February 3 with the vote in favor of the PP deputy Alberto Casero.

Casero made a mistake when casting his vote electronically, he voted in favor and then wanted to change it at the last moment.

Against the decision of the president of the Chamber, Meritxell Batet, not to allow the deputy to rectify his vote, the popular deputy himself, the PP and Vox appealed to the court of guarantees.

But, of them, only this last party asked that the labor reform be kept suspended until the challenges were resolved.

If Casero's vote had been negative, the rule would not have been approved.

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When the challenges were presented, Vox was surprised to be the only formation that requested the suspension of the labor reform.

The Constitutional Court, however, has now considered that agreeing to the request of said party would be a disproportionate measure.

The then Vox deputy in Congress Macarena Olona interpreted in February, after the vote, that the legislative change had to come out "civil or criminal, and it has been criminal."

She then lowered the tone and affirmed that the norm had been approved violating the fundamental rights of the deputies, especially those of Casero himself.

Vox's appeal was the first to be presented, and then that of the deputy Casero and that of the spokesperson for his group, Cuca Gamarra, were added once the Chamber's legal services had prepared a report in which they estimated that the politician popular made a material error when expressing its vote electronically.

The same report considered that the circumstances were not met for the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, to call a meeting of the Chamber's Bureau.

The legal services supported her opinion in various precedents of other cases of human error in relation to debates in which there were also telematic votes that could not be altered.

The report estimated, in short, that the vote formulated by said procedure cannot be changed,

The challenge of the PP was based on the existence of an alleged violation of article 23.1 of the Constitution, which establishes that "citizens have the right to participate in public affairs, directly or through representatives, freely chosen in periodic elections by suffrage. universal".

The infraction of this precept occurred, according to the PP, because the deputy Casero was prevented from correcting his vote despite having requested it "in accordance with the regulations" of Congress, with which "the majority will of the Chamber" was altered, in the words by Cuca Gamarra.

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