The Congress of Deputies has concluded this Tuesday, October 13, the processing of the disciplinary file opened against the deputy of the Popular Party Ana Vázquez, after the early dissolution of the Cortes, derived from the call for general elections for November 29, prevented the proposal from being put to a vote in the Plenary.
PSOE and Sumar, with a majority in the governing body of the Chamber, had already agreed to propose a sanction of one week of suspension of employment and salary for Ana Vázquez, after the parliamentarian showed a can of pepper spray in a plenary session. The measure, according to the initially planned schedule, was to be applied in the first week of November, a period in which no Plenary was scheduled, so the deputy would have been unable to vote without altering the balance of majorities in the Chamber.
However, the proposal of the Bureau had to be endorsed by the Plenary of the Congress, and the dissolution of the Cortes has closed the procedure, as the plenary session required by the Regulations to validate the sanction could not be held.
The Bureau reproaches conduct of "undoubted seriousness"
Although the sanction can no longer be imposed, the Bureau of the Permanent Deputation has admonished the 'popular' deputy for actions it considers of "undoubted seriousness". In the document, to which Europa Press has had access, it is stressed that the introduction of weapons into the parliamentary precinct is "completely and unconditionally" prohibited by the Regulations, and that it is a limit that no other deputy had exceeded in this constitutional period.
The body adds that the impossibility of imposing a sanction due to the early dissolution of Congress cannot be interpreted as a condonation of the conduct. In that same text, the Bureau points out that Ana Vázquez remains a member of the Permanent Deputation and considers her "politically responsible for a serious infraction of the Regulations" for introducing into the parliamentary precinct a "weapon" that affected "dozens of people", one of them on medical leave, forced the evacuation of dependencies in three different buildings and caused "considerable" economic damage.
For the Bureau, furthermore, her behavior in the hemicycle, her decision to display a pepper spray for hours in the Chamber's precinct and her attempt to shift responsibility to a subordinate constitute "reprehensible and harmful" conduct for the Cortes Generales.
