Sánchez's partners celebrate the classified information law but consider it insufficient.

Investiture partners of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, such as the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), ERC (Republican Nationalist Party), Bildu (Bolivarian Nationalist Party), and BNG (National Liberation Front) are celebrating Tuesday's approval of the Classified Information bill, but believe it is late and insufficient.

The spokesperson for the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party) in Congress, Maribel Vaquero, whose party has been demanding this law from the government for almost a decade, said that its approval this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers is good news, even if it's late, she added.

"We're going to read the law carefully. But for now, based on our first reading, it's still far from what we were asking for," Vaquero told the media in the halls of Congress.

This bill replaces the Official Secrets Act of Franco's regime (1968) and establishes for the first time the automatic declassification of classified information when certain deadlines have elapsed.

The law establishes that the maximum classification period will be 45 years, extendable for a further 15 years upon justification.

Vaquero emphasized that the bill does away with a Francoist law and will help "provide transparency" and uncover the truth about events that occurred, especially during the Transition and the early years of democracy. However, his party wants to make changes to the text, so it will present amendments when it reaches Congress.

ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, believes this bill is "good," although he noted that it's a good initiative to stop talking about other issues and also warned about the classification times, which he considers excessive.

"In the end, we'll find out who killed Kennedy before who was behind 23F, right? Maybe he'll be eating in Abu Dhabi," he told the media in Congress, referring to the emeritus king.

EH Bildu's spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, also expressed skepticism about the new law, believing it will be insufficient and will keep the events of recent decades "hidden and unpunished."

"The deadlines are excessive," he criticized in statements to the media in Congress, where he pointed out that this proposal is "very similar" to the one already proposed in 2022 and which had already been described as insufficient.

Compromís MP Alberto Ibáñez, a member of the Sumar group, insisted in a press conference that the law should "limit its timeframe" and urged "adjusting issues" to better guarantee human rights.

Along the same lines, BNG sources have told EFE that this law is "47 years late" and they now hope to read it slowly to learn details about the declassification of documents.