Non-binding nature of the request to process an initiative through the one single reading procedure and the absence of parliamentary practice on the plenary’s power to decide itself, without the Bureau’s involvement, on the procedure that the initiative.. Commentary to Constitutional Court's Judgement 110/2019, of October 2. Concerning the appeal for legal protection num. 6914-2018. (BOE num. 262, of October 31, 2019)

Abstract

The Constitutional Court, sitting in Plenary, decides to dismiss an appeal for legal protection on the agreement of the Parliament’s Bureau which rejected that a Private Member’s Bill be subject to the one single reading procedure. The Constitutional Court, on the one side, states that the Bureau is not bound by the request and, therefore, may choose note to propose it to the Plenary Session, within the framework of Art. 150 of the Parliament’s Standing Order and, on the other side, confirms that parliamentary practice does not apply to the case, that the Bureau’s power to decide cannot disappear by a mere lack of use, and that the Plenary does not have the power to decide itself, absent the Bureau’s agreement.