The PP intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court (TC) for the amnesty law demanded by the pro-independence parties to invest Pedro Sánchez if it is finally approved, as announced by its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the day after the demonstration that yesterday in Barcelona gathered some 50,000 people against this possible measure of criminal oblivion for all those prosecuted civilly and criminally for the process.
“Yes, of course, we are going to appeal anything that is unfair,” Feijóo acknowledged in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the first granted to this Catalan public medium in the last 13 years, in which he called the amnesty “conspiracy.” “unjust” and “absolute cowardice.” “It is a democratic involution, a reactionary decision and massive electoral fraud,” alleged the popular leader, who recalled that Sánchez shortly before the general elections said that it did not fit into the Constitution. It is “incompatible with the Spanish legal system” and the PP will not be “complicit in an injustice,” Feijóo insisted after making it clear that his formation will work “with reason, with morality, with ethics and with the law” to combat an amnesty.
Feijóo, who less than two weeks ago failed in his attempt to become president of the government, has tried to refute the arguments put forward by the acting president of the Government to defend his policy in Catalonia. “It’s not about coexistence, it’s about convenience,” concluded the popular leader, for whom “no reconciliation is being concluded, a political transaction is being carried out in which, in exchange for votes, crimes are condoned.” And the fact is that, In the opinion of the popular leader, the amnesty violates the equality of Spaniards and, far from appeasing anything in Catalonia, means “relaunching independence.”
Expanding on his arguments against a possible norm of penal oblivion, Feijóo, whose party has already shown itself against pardons for the leaders of the process, has put on the table that the difference between both measures is that in the pardon it is the State that forgives the condemned and in the amnesty it is the State that is forgiven”, something that in his opinion “is absolutely illogical”.
And regarding yesterday’s demonstration in Barcelona, ??in which “all of us who wanted to be were there,” he highlighted that “the majority of the Catalan people are against discriminatory treatment of those who break the laws” and have rejected the idea that there is “an elite policy that is above the law”. “We politicians have to be the first to comply,” he added.
Feijóo has predicted, despite everything, that there will be a Sánchez government, whom he has reproached for depending on Carles Puigdemont and the parties “that want to leave Spain”, which he has called a “democratic anomaly”.
Feijóo has defended the policy that Mariano Rajoy made in Catalonia six years ago with the application of article 155 after the declaration of independence and has assured that legality was applied then and that “only the PP has maintained the coherence that Catalans have the right for the law to be fulfilled.” “What had to be done has been done, with the intensity that had to be done, it can be discussed whether it had to be greater,” the president of the PP insisted.
Regarding the meeting that he will hold this Monday in Congress with Pedro Sánchez, Feijóo has criticized the fact that his interlocutor already speaks as “president when he has lost the elections, instead of as a socialist candidate for the presidency of the government”, and has announced that he will attend the meeting to talk only about the investiture, after being asked if the head of the Executive proposes unblocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Likewise, the popular leader has emphasized that Catalonia is for the PP a “priority over priority” community and in this sense he has recalled that his party “is already the third force in votes, above nationalism and independence.”
Feijóo has also charged against the Tinell Pact, signed between PSC, ERC and ICV to create the first tripartite in Catalonia 20 years ago, which he has placed as the “origin of the nonsense we are experiencing in Spain” and which, in his opinion, Its objective is that the PP does not govern anywhere in Spain unless it obtains an absolute majority.
