The ex-deputy of the commons and one of the main actors of Summar in the negotiations to reach a new progressive coalition government in Spain, Jaume Asens, considers that the ex-president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, “will not interfere in the negotiation” .
This was stated this Saturday in an interview on Rac1’s Via Lliure program: “I think there will not be an increase in rhetoric,” Asens said. “I am more concerned about what ERC does and says than Junts,” he added.
However, Asens has acknowledged that when ERC and Junts approved a resolution in Parliament that includes negotiating a self-determination referendum in Catalonia to invest Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government, he feared that “the negotiation would derail.” “But the lanes are deep enough for things to end well,” he clarified.
“It’s not serious, it can be redirected. I want to believe that it is an overreaction by the pro-independence parties,” said the former deputy. Regarding the negotiations, he revealed that “ERC had not explicitly put the referendum” on the table.
For Jaume Asens, the new Amnesty law must include “everything that has happened after the annulment of the Statute.” “The possibility of Puigdemont returning will occur immediately upon approval,” he said.
However, for Sumar’s negotiator, it is “very likely” that the Amnesty will end up in the Constitutional Court. A circumstance that would mean “delaying its application,” Asens said.
