The revelations about the position of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on the pardons, the amnesty law and the situation in Catalonia in general have dominated the headlines of the Spanish press since last weekend but, just in case the news have not crossed the Pyrenees, the PSOE has mobilized and today will send them to several European leaders involved in the defense of the rule of law, among them the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and the president of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, Claire Bazy Malaurie, both involved in assessing the health of the rule of law in Spain.

“Last Friday, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo had lunch with 16 journalists from various media that cover current affairs of his party,” details the document sent today Thursday by the president of the Socialists group.

The document, in English, states that the PP leader “believes the need for a reconciliation plan with Catalonia, therefore admitting the existence of a serious political problem”, “is open to considering a pardon” for Puigdemont despite having defended that the pardons granted by the Government were “unacceptable from a political and constitutional point of view”, “he has admitted that he spent at least 24 hours considering the viability of an amnesty as part of his negotiations with Junts” and, finally, “ has acknowledged that it will be ‘difficult’ for Thursdays to prove that the former president committed a crime of terrorism, despite his insistence in recent days on linking the independence movement with terrorism.

The document recalls the failed conversations between the PP and Junts to form a Government, as well as with the extreme right Vox, and the letter published by Puigdemont on February 6 in which he threatened to reveal the content of those contacts. To support his claims, links are attached to a dozen articles on the subject that have appeared in the Spanish and European press in recent days. “These media outlets have different editorial lines but they all agree on the words spoken by Feijóo,” concludes the document that accompanies the message from the leader of the European socialist group in the European Parliament and the leader of the Spanish delegation.

In addition to Reynders and Bazy Malaurie, involved in contacts with Spain regarding the situation of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the recipients of the message also include the vice president of the European Commission responsible for Values ??and Transparency, V?ra Jourová; the chair of the European Parliament’s Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights monitoring group, Sophie in ‘t Veld; and, finally, the president of the commission on Civil Liberties, Justice and the Interior of the same institution, Juan Fernando López Aguilar. The communication of the socialists does not require any type of response or reaction