The alternative proposal of Junts per Catalunya to repeal the crime of sedition, which was registered yesterday in the form of an amendment to the entirety in the Congress of Deputies, also includes a substantial change in the definition of the crime of rebellion. For there to be a rebellion, if this modification were to go ahead, the use of weapons would be necessary.
The current text states that “those who rise up violently and publicly are guilty of the crime of rebellion […]” and Junts proposes that the text read as follows: “those who rise up through use of weapons […]”. The seven assumptions that the crime includes, on the other hand, are not touched. Nor was it to declare the independence of a part of the territory.
In addition, JxCat details in the repeal of sedition its retroactive effects in a transitory provision, as happened in the repeal of the crime of insubordination in 2002. In this way, final and unexecuted convictions would be reviewed, canceled the criminal records, even in sentences already carried out, and the criminal proceedings initiated for such acts in which no final sentence has been handed down will be archived ex officio.
Nowhere in the Junts text does the modification of the crime of public disorder appear or the inclusion of aggravated public disorder. There is also no reference to changing the classification of embezzlement, although from the training they assure that they will study the proposals that are made.
The post-convergent group abstained last week in the debate to take into consideration the proposal to repeal the crime of sedition and modify the crime of public disorder that the PSOE and Esquerra Republicana agreed upon and in the current process it presents this alternative after having been very critical of the text registered by the socialists and the confederal group of United We Can.
