(ANSAmed) - MADRID, MARCH 8 - The Foreign Affairs Commission of
the Spanish Congress has rejected a motion of the left-wing
parties on a revision of the agreements closed by the Spanish
State and the Holy See in 1976 and 1979, the Spanish media
report today. The motion of the PSOE council group and the
Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), asked the government of Mariano
Rajoy to revise the legal, cultural and economic aspects of the
deals as well as the religious presence in the armed forces that
is part of the agreements, in order to defend the state's
secularity and stress the non-denominational character of the
Spanish Constitution. The motion also proposes tax payments for
the religious institutions present in Spain, on the same level
as other institutions. The PSOE, BNA, the leftwing
non-denominational coalition and the constitutional UpyD party
voted for the motion, but it was rejected by the overwhelming
majority of the PP, together with the Catalan Christian
Democratic CiU party.
(ANSAmed)
