“The circus that the Popular Party intended to do in the Senate has certainly been lackluster,” said the spokesperson for the PSOE executive, Esther Peña, before the session of the general commission of the autonomous communities held this Monday in the Upper House. , in which the president of the Generalitat and candidate for re-election by Esquerra Republicana in the 12-M, Pere Aragonès, has intervened to defend an Amnesty law forcefully rejected by the PP, in the absence of the Government and the socialist regional presidents .
“We found it striking that this session today, in which decorum and forms have not been maintained, has seemed more like an electoral platform for the candidate Aragonès than to elucidate any issue that has to do with the territorial policy of this country. ”, highlighted Peña. “It is certainly striking that in this circus the PP has ended up showing an electoral platform to the ERC candidate,” Ferraz’s spokesperson reproached.
Peña has denounced that the PP insists on trying to “take full advantage” of all the country’s institutions, in this case the Upper House, where Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party enjoys a large absolute majority. The Senate, he has assured, can be understood as a chamber of territorial representation, of collaboration and multi-level meeting between administrations, or simply of second reading of the laws. But “it should not be”, in any case, it is “a camera at the service of the PP.”
“The PP has decided once again to steal an institution from the Spanish people,” said the socialist leader. And she has demanded from Feijóo’s formation “a little more decorum and respect”, to the Spanish and to the Senate. Peña has regretted that in the Upper House there has barely been a “pseudo-debate” on the Amnesty law today.
Now, the leadership of the PSOE has also wanted to refute the speech that Aragonès has given in this session of the Senate, when the president of the Generalitat has assured that the amnesty is no longer an impossible, just as now, in his opinion, it will happen with the self-determination referendum in Catalonia. “We socialists have been and are categorical in this regard: there is not and will not be a referendum,” Peña stressed. “Those divisive formulas belong to the past and we socialists are working, side by side with Salvador Illa, to build a better future for Spain and Catalonia, of great agreements and coexistence, without fractures and for everyone,” he concluded.
