An email at 2.30 in the morning from Sunday to Monday, with the amnesty law attached, is the last text that ERC has in hand. Republicans began analyzing it yesterday morning. They keep doing it. They have technical and legal doubts that they wish to study first, and if necessary, resolve later during the processing of the law in Congress. And one of the points they observe with a magnifying glass falls on an affair that those of Oriol Junqueras consider paramount: that it be clear that the cases related to Democratic Tsunami and the twelve members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) accused of terrorism, after of Junts previous review, will be amnestied.
Marta Rovira, general secretary of the party, is under investigation for terrorism. Also Ruben Wagensberg, member of the Parliament Bureau. Or Marta Molina, secretary of social movements of Esquerra. This is partly the party’s interest in leaving no loopholes or legal loopholes.
The text of the amnesty relating to the crimes of terrorism is under the heading of exclusions, that is, of the cases that the law does not have to cover. “They are excluded from the application of the amnesty (…) the acts classified as crimes of terrorism punished in chapter VII of title XXII of book II of the Penal Code as long as there has been a final sentence and they have consisted of the commission of “any of the behaviors described in article 3 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 15, 2017”.
In Esquerra there are doubts on this point, caused in part by the judge’s interlocutory speech on Tsunami, which came shortly after the PSOE and ERC announced the agreement for the investiture. The training does not give details.
Of course, as ERC spokeswoman Raquel Sans assured, despite the fact that the Republicans maintain their own pace of analysis of the text, different from that of the PSOE, “it will not derail”.
In any case, Sans emphasized the possibility of the amnesty being registered before even ERC compels the text.
The text that ERC is revising is the last one that Junts retouched with the PSOE. The post-convergents point out that the final agreement on the wording of the proposed amnesty law was closed in the morning, after the review of the last pending fringes.
In recent days, although the agreement was already taken for granted and there was even a rubric of the political pact in Brussels, the post-convergents continued to scrutinize the document relating to criminal oblivion to ensure that no cause related to the process falls outside the scope of the rule.
Yesterday morning the review came to an end and the text published by the media before lunch time is the final version negotiated between JxCat and the PSOE. “Now in Esquerra they have a rebequeria”, say sources from Carles Puigdemont’s formation, who believe that the Junqueras want to “mark their profile” in the final stage. These sources recall that two weeks ago the Republicans said that they had already “closed” a pact regarding the amnesty law with the Socialists. “It’s a horn attack”, they add.
In fact, the spokeswoman for the party in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, one of the people who have been part of the negotiating team, spoke in a similar line yesterday in statements to TV3 and threw some jabs at the Republicans. “Two weeks ago we were told that there was a pact with an agreed amnesty law, but we have not seen the text,” said Nogueras.
