“Step by step,” they warn in Moncloa about the ongoing negotiations with Junts and ERC, including an amnesty for those prosecuted by the process, so as not to precipitate events or suffer any setbacks that could ruin the already complicated situation. path towards the re-election of Pedro Sánchez.
This was acknowledged yesterday by Sánchez himself, upon his arrival at the summit of the European Political Community held in Granada, when the press asked him whether or not there will be an amnesty. “We are negotiating, and when we have a concrete position on the matter, after meeting with all the parliamentary groups, we will establish the position of the PSOE,” he stated.
“The negotiations are complex,” he acknowledged. Which, possibly, delays the investiture times, no matter how much haste you try to impose on the process. It is foreseeable that the investiture debate cannot be held, if nothing goes wrong, at least until the end of October or beginning of November.
“We have lost five weeks with an investiture that even the candidate himself knew was going to be a failure,” Sánchez alleged, referring to the failed attempt by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “And now Spanish society, and I first, want there to be a government with full functions, and that we are not in office, as we have been since the elections of July 23,” he urged. “There is an urgency for there to be a fully functioning government,” he insisted.
But he also acknowledged that the process will not be as quick as he would like. “The negotiations are complex, because there is a parliamentary arc with different interests,” he admitted about the difficulty of the endeavor. “We all have to find that meeting space to start this legislature and be able to form a parliamentary majority, which not only gives us an investiture, but also the legislature,” he confided.
“My goal is that during these next four years we continue to advance for the social majority of our country, in rights, freedoms and progress,” Sánchez remarked.
And he also advocated “continuing to cultivate and promote reunion and coexistence between the people of Spain, within the framework of the Constitution.” “Dialogue is the method, the objective is progress and coexistence, and the framework is the Constitution. “That is where we are going to move,” reiterated the leader of the PSOE.
Regarding whether or not there will be an amnesty, Sánchez came to recognize that it is the million-dollar question, and admitted that he never even utters this word, as he once again avoided doing yesterday. But he insisted that it is not yet time to set a position, until negotiations with the Catalan independence movement progress. “We are negotiating with different parliamentary groups,” he alleged.
Sánchez, however, once again used the beneficial effects that, in his opinion, the pardons had on the imprisoned leaders of the process, approved in the last legislature. “When the Government approved the pardons, I was confident that they would contribute to the stability and normalization of politics in Catalonia. And today I am certain that it was a good decision, and that therefore it obeyed a general interest,” he argued.
And for this general interest, he defended, not only the Executive, but also all parliamentary forces must ensure.
