The amnesty law is already registered in the Congress of Deputies, with the sole signature of the PSOE. There is no more because ERC has submitted the text to review and its lawyers recommended groups such as the BNG or Bildu to wait. The Republicans are studying the text to the millimeter and this afternoon the spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, Patrícia Plaja, has assured that the legal services of the Generalitat are also analyzing it.
The Government and ERC have the crime of terrorism under the microscope. They want to make sure that those prosecuted for this reason for their alleged connection with the Democratic Tsunami – among them Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira – and the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) will be amnestied. Sources from the Catalan Executive affirm that the latest text, agreed by the PSOE and Junts, generalizes the cases to be amnestied and they are studying the possibility of limiting the point related to terrorism. The same sources emphasize, however, that they trust that they will soon reach a conclusion and relativize the analysis, since these are “surgical” issues that do not necessarily presuppose that there are amendments.
In any case, in public, at a press conference after the meeting of the Executive Council this morning, the spokesperson assured that the Catalan Executive wants to guarantee “maximum legal certainty” of the law. It’s your priority. “It is a law that is important and transcendent enough so that there is no other condition other than rigor,” she pointed out.
The demonstrations promoted by the right and the extreme right in recent days, in addition to the different institutional statements, among them from judicial establishments, motivate the Government to be cautious regarding the norm. Plaja has taken it for granted that all of them are going to “put up all the legal obstacles” to prevent the document from going forward. That is why he has insisted on the need to “review it to the millimeter.”
Plaja also wanted to confirm the relevant role, as he said, that the ERC Government has had in the drafting of the amnesty law. Thus, he has assured that the call on October 31 between Pere Aragonès and Pedro Sánchez was key to unraveling the disagreement with the PSOE and agreeing on the content of the norm. Republicans and socialists announced the pact on this matter that same night. Two days later they signed the global agreement for the investiture of the leader of the PSOE. Plaja’s words come 24 hours after ERC spokesperson Raquel Sans stated that “this is not the time to put on medals” regarding the authorship of the law.
