LGTBI Commission of Les Corts: the TC admits the appeal

The Constitutional Court has admitted the amparo appeal from Compromís against the reform of the Les Corts Valencianes regulations.
The reform, approved by PP and Vox in December 2025 by single reading, eliminated the LGTBI rights commission and inclusive language.
The TC appreciates “special constitutional significance” and gives ten days to the presidency of Les Corts to send the documentation.

The reform that eliminated the LGTBI commission of Les Corts will have to go through the Constitutional Court. Its Fourth Section has admitted the amparo appeal from Isaura Navarro, deputy spokesperson for Compromís, against the changes that PP and Vox approved in December 2025 by single reading. This was published by elDiario.es on October 23, 2026.

What has the Constitutional Court decided?

The TC has admitted the amparo appeal from Compromís because it sees in it a “special constitutional significance”. In its order, the Fourth Section explains that “it has examined the amparo appeal and has agreed to admit it for processing.”

Admitting the appeal does not yet mean giving Compromís the victory: it opens the process for the court to study the substance of the matter. The first step is already underway: the TC has given the president of Les Corts a maximum period of ten days to send two documents.

The first is the decision of the Board to process the reform by single reading. The second is the resolution of the Presidency, agreed with the Board of Spokespersons, to include it in the agenda of the Plenary.

What did the reform of the regulations change?

The reform by PP and Vox eliminated four parliamentary commissions, including the LGTBI rights commission, and removed inclusive language from the chamber’s publications. The other three commissions eliminated were Human Rights, Civic Participation, and European Affairs.

In addition, the reform ended the zipper rule, which alternated women and men in parliamentary tables. It also allows partial amendments to cut the budget of statutory bodies such as the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL) and changed the control of subsidies to parliamentary groups, which has moved from the General Subsidies Law to an internal regulation.

In total, 13 articles of the regulations were modified. According to elDiario.es, the change was approved the same week that Carlos Mazón resigned as president of the Generalitat.

Why does Compromís appeal?

Compromís argues that a reform of this scope could not be approved by single reading, a procedure designed for simple texts. According to Navarro, PP and Vox bypassed the ordinary processing and violated the rights of the opposition.

“A reform of this scope had to go through the ordinary procedure, with a report, amendments, and debate,” the deputy defended. She added: “PP and Vox with this reform by single reading violated our right to participate as deputies.”

For Navarro, the admission for processing is a good sign: “That the Constitutional Court has decided to admit the appeal means that it sees a real problem.” The deputy has also criticized that Mazón, spokesperson for the Regulations Commission, did not have to participate in the process, summarizing it as: “Getting paid without working, and reforming without debating.”

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What does it mean for LGTBI rights?

The disappearance of the LGTBI commission left Les Corts without a parliamentary space of its own to monitor the equality policies of the collective. The appeal does not directly request the recovery of the commission: it focuses on the procedure by which the reform was approved. Nevertheless, what the TC decides will affect the entire regulation, and the LGTBI commission is one of the most visible pieces of that change.
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