Once the Congressional Justice Commission has been convened for this Thursday to debate and vote on a new opinion on the Amnesty law proposal, the PSOE leadership has expressed its “full conviction” that there will be an agreement with Junts per Catalunya to unblock finally the norm. This time yes, because they have assured that “there is will” on both sides to seal an agreement.
This was also highlighted by the spokesperson for the PSOE executive, Esther Peña, this Monday from Ferraz, reaffirming “our will and our absolute confidence that the law will go ahead this Thursday morning in the Congressional Justice Commission.” “We are convinced that it will be a good law for Spain and for Catalonia, and that it will finally help us turn the page on one of the most difficult stages of coexistence in our country,” she assured.
Peña has insisted that the PSOE, in any case, maintains its defense of the wording of the norm that a month ago caused the negative vote of Junts in the plenary session of Congress, in response to the accusation of an alleged crime of terrorism against Carles Puigdemont in the case of the Democratic Tsunami, so the bill returned to the Justice commission. The PSOE, he has highlighted, has “a firm and clear position” on the matter. “We do not plan to make any modifications,” he said.
Socialist sources have pointed out that although there is some change in the final wording of the norm, in any case, “the philosophy is the same.” Peña did not want to go further either. “For the moment, caution. “We continue to negotiate with discretion,” she alleged. But she has insisted that the norm “can obtain majority support this Thursday to be approved” in the Justice commission. If so, the PSOE trusts that the law can be voted on in the plenary session of Congress on Thursday of next week, and from there it will go to the Senate, where the PP, in any case, can delay its processing for another two months. .
The PSOE spokesperson has assured that this “reconciliation law”, as she has called it, can achieve the final approval of Junts. In her opinion, the vote against the norm by Puigdemont’s party, a month ago, “opened a period of reflection” in Junts that could now lead to the agreement planned by the socialists.
Ferraz’s leadership is confident that, once the amnesty is unlocked, the Government can recover its legislative initiative with the priority of being able to approve new general state budgets for this year. Socialist sources indicate that negotiations with Junts on public accounts are also open. And that the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, is already “fighting” to achieve its approval. In the previous legislature, she achieved it three consecutive times.
