The president of the Generalitat of Catalonia and ERC candidate for re-election, Pere Aragonès, will defend today from the general commission of the Autonomous Communities in the Senate that the Amnesty law is “necessary” and has to serve to end the “repression”. which at the time was very clearly encouraged by the Popular Party.”
Aragonès will be one of the eight regional presidents who will participate in this commission in which the report on the regional content of the proposed Amnesty organic law for institutional, political and social normalization in Catalonia will be debated and, where appropriate, approved. .
Isabel Díaz Ayuso (Community of Madrid), Fernando López Miras (Region of Murcia), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castilla y León), Carlos Mazón (Valencian Community), María Guardiola (Extremadura), Jorge Azcón (Aragón) and Juan José will also participate. Imbroda (Melilla). Thus, seven presidents of the PP and Aragonès will participate. In addition, on behalf of the PP, seven councilors from the rest of its regional governments will attend.
Aragonès justified his presence by pointing out that “defending the amnesty has to be done everywhere, even in a field” that will be tried to be “hostile” because the Senate is “chaired by the PP” and presidents of autonomous communities governed by the PP will participate. Popular and Vox, but he assured that that “doesn’t” make him “scared.” The last time Aragonès intervened in the Senate was on October 19, when he gave a speech of about 10 minutes also defending the amnesty.
On the part of the PP, it is expected that the strategy will revolve around the report that they themselves promoted with their absolute majority and that is expected to be approved. Among other issues, the text defends that the bill could set “a very dangerous precedent” because “it leaves the autonomous State unprotected” by giving “an expectation of impunity to all types of separatist movements and insurrectionary acts.”
