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Join on Telegram Casablanca – After Senator Carles Mulet requested that Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, appear before the Senate two days after the Melilla tragedy in June, the Senate Board refused the request due to “regulations” issues.
In his response to the request, the president of the Senate, Ander Gil Garcia, argued that the internal rules of Spain’s Senate “do not regulate the appearances of the government before the plenary,” reported the news website El Faro Melilla.
Responding to the rejection, Mulet denied Garcia’s argument by noting that “nothing prevents” the appearance of the Head of Government before the Senate, and accusing the Upper House president of pursuing the interests of his Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).
The rejection of his request demonstrates the PSOE’s “lack of respect for the functions and usefulness of the Senate,” Mulet said in a statement to the Spanish press.
“The request for appearance of the members of the Government in the Commissions is not regulated either, and these are processed without a major problem,” which suggests that “there is pressure for them to do so,” he continued.
“It is serious that Sanchez does not face up to what happened, since we are talking about an unacceptable massacre where responsibilities must be cleared up,” Mullet underlined, concluding: “This was a measure, but there is a battery of written questions and we are not going to let this issue, so serious, become a one-day news story.”
On Thursday, Mulet, accompanied by Vicenç Vidal Matas, a senator from Més per Mallorca, and several advisers to the Melilla government from the Coalition for Melilla (CPM), visited the Melilla fence in order to have more explanations for how last month’s Melilla tragedy happened.
The visit came only days after Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) confirmed that 27 people died in the tragic Melilla events and 64 remain missing.
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