In a week there will be the second vote. The Plenary Session of Congress approved, this afternoon, in the first vote, the law that modifies six articles of the Constitutional Procedural Code, and that benefits Parliament before the Constitutional Court (TC), and protects it before the Judiciary (PJ).
LOOK: Plenary session of Congress approves filing a jurisdictional lawsuit against JNJ before the TC
The Plenary gave the green light with 70 votes in favor, 38 against and 4 abstentions.
Once again, the Chamber looked almost empty. At times, there were only 25 congressmen who participated in the session in person.
The approved law reduces the issuance of rulings in jurisdictional processes to four votes in the Constitutional Court (TC) and rejects protections against the Legislature in the Judiciary (PJ).
This is because the current rule establishes that the plenary session of the TC requires five favorable votes to issue a ruling and declare a jurisdictional claim founded.
The substitute text approved in the first vote indicates that the PJ judges must reject constitutional processes and precautionary measures – amparo and habeas corpus – that question the exercise of exclusive powers of Congress related to the election, designation, ratification and removal of senior officials, and the legislative process.
In addition, the decisions of Congress on political trials and pre-trials, and on presidential vacancies or suspensions.
