Protects local councilors and cuts public funds to terrorism-linked parties

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1. It punishes with six months to one year in prison those who seriously disrupt city council meetings, blocking access, the agenda or decisions, or causing disorder to support armed groups. It also increases penalties for those who slander, threaten or coerce local officials invoking terrorism.
2. Regional and municipal police forces may act outside their territory to protect public officials, with authorization from the Ministry of the Interior or the regional government, and always in emergencies when requested by the authorities.
3. Local governments may join court cases over crimes that hinder the work of local councilors, and judges must protect the confidentiality of public records on victims of threats or coercion.
4. The State may pay for political parties' security expenses and distributes subsidies based on seats and votes. All public funding is cut off for parties whose conduct matches grounds for banning, or whose lists or leadership include people convicted of terrorism, rebellion or serious crimes against State institutions, unless they have publicly rejected such ends and means.
5. It reforms the electoral law: people convicted of terrorism or rebellion are ineligible even if the sentence is not final, people under threat can be removed from voter list copies, election subsidies depend on elected officials actually taking office, and advances of up to 30 percent of the subsidy are regulated.
6. The Senate must approve before the Government can dissolve local councils that support or justify terrorism or humiliate victims. Threatened councilors may file their declarations of interests with the provincial council or regional government in a special register.

Who it affects

• Local councilors and members of local councils: They get criminal, police and data protection safeguards if threatened.
• Political parties: They may receive security expense aid, but lose all public funding if they engage in bannable conduct or include terrorism convicts on their lists.
• People who disrupt council meetings or threaten officials: They face prison terms and harsher penalties.
• City councils and regional and municipal police: Their forces may act outside their territory to protect officials or in emergencies.
• Voters and candidates: Rules on eligibility, voter lists and election subsidies change.

Words worth knowing

Pleno

Meeting of all the councilors of a city council to make decisions.

Inelegible

A person who cannot run as a candidate in an election.

Censo electoral

Official list of people entitled to vote in an election.

Comisión gestora

Temporary body that runs a city council when it cannot be normally constituted.

Personarse en la causa

To appear in a court case as a party, that is, as an injured party who sues or brings charges.

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